Temporary Works Manager - Airport Infrastructure

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 335,000 - 502,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is hiring a Temporary Works Manager for a major airport infrastructure program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role leads temporary works engineering, design review, site implementation, inspection, and risk control across airport, airfield, and related infrastructure.

You will oversee excavation support, formwork, scaffolding, and crane bases to ensure safety and compliance. The ideal candidate will have at least 15 years of relevant experience in temporary works design and construction,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil/Structural Engineering or related field.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant engineering experience in temporary works design, technical assurance, and construction.

Responsibilities

• Lead temporary works engineering across airport, infrastructure, and external works packages.
• Establish and maintain the Temporary Works Management System, procedures, and approvals.
• Develop temporary works strategies including design responsibility, checking, inspection, and safe removal.
• Coordinate design briefs with project teams, consultants, and contractors.
• Review and approve temporary works documentation within delegated authority.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to site personnel on temporary works.

Skills

Temporary works engineering

Leadership

Design review

Construction sequencing

Site inspection

HSE coordination

Technical governance

Record keeping

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Structural Engineering

Job description

Temporary Works Manager - Airport Infrastructure Job Snapshot Role: Temporary Works Manager - Airport Infrastructure Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Construction Function: Civil & Structural Engineering Experience: Minimum 15 years Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Temporary Works Manager - Airport Infrastructure in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Construction opportunity leading temporary works engineering, structural assurance, design review, site implementation, inspection, and risk control across a major airport, airfield, and infrastructure program. Parsons is hiring a Saudi National engineering professional to manage temporary works systems covering excavation support, formwork, falsework, scaffolding, access platforms, crane bases, temporary bridges, shoring, structural supports, and construction sequencing while maintaining safety, constructability, quality, and compliance.

Job Details Country: Saudi Arabia City: Riyadh Industry: Construction Function: Civil & Structural Engineering Salary: 30000-45000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Saudi National Job Type: Full-time

Role Context

The Temporary Works Manager will provide the technical governance required to ensure temporary structures and construction support systems remain safe, stable, properly designed, and appropriately controlled throughout their use on the project. The position will oversee the full temporary works lifecycle, from identifying requirements and defining design briefs through independent checking, approval, installation, inspection, monitoring, modification, dismantling, and closeout. Because these systems support complex airport, airfield, structural, underground, utility, and heavy lifting activities, effective management will have a direct impact on construction safety, sequencing, productivity, and schedule reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead temporary works engineering and management activities across airport, airfield, infrastructure, structural, utility, and external works packages.
• Establish and maintain the project Temporary Works Management System, procedures, registers, governance controls, and approval workflows.
• Develop temporary works strategies covering design responsibility, review categories, checking requirements, inspection, monitoring, and safe removal.
• Identify temporary works requirements during planning, design development, construction sequencing, and site execution.
• Prepare and coordinate temporary works design briefs with project teams, specialist designers, consultants, and contractors.
• Confirm that design responsibility is clearly allocated for each temporary works package.
• Maintain an accurate Temporary Works Register covering status, risk classification, approvals, inspections, modifications, and closeout.
• Categorize temporary works according to risk and criticality and assign suitable checking and approval requirements.
• Review temporary works designs prepared by internal engineers, consultants, specialist subcontractors, and suppliers.
• Examine design calculations, drawings, specifications, design assumptions, loading criteria, construction methodology, and temporary condition assessments.
• Verify that temporary works designs account for construction loads, equipment loads, wind, vibration, environmental conditions, dynamic effects, and other relevant actions.
• Coordinate independent design checking for critical and high-risk temporary works.
• Ensure competent designers and checkers are appointed in accordance with approved project procedures.
• Review excavation support, shoring, temporary retaining systems, and temporary earth support arrangements.
• Provide technical assurance for scaffolding, formwork, falsework, propping, bracing, and structural steel temporary works.
• Review temporary bridges, platforms, access systems, working areas, temporary foundations, and equipment supports.
• Assess crane bases, working platforms, heavy lifting supports, and temporary arrangements associated with major plant and equipment installation.
• Review cofferdams, temporary drainage, water control systems, protection structures, and underground construction support.
• Coordinate temporary works for utility corridors, underground services, district cooling plants, and major infrastructure installations.
• Check compatibility between temporary works and permanent works to prevent clashes, instability, or unintended load transfer.
• Review constructability, installation sequence, practicality, accessibility, and dismantling methodology before approval.
• Coordinate temporary works requirements with Civil, Structural, MEP, Logistics, Construction, Planning, and HSE teams.
• Support temporary works associated with runway, taxiway, apron, road, drainage, utility, and airfield construction.
• Verify that access roads and working platforms are suitable for cranes, heavy plant, and construction equipment.
• Review temporary arrangements within constrained and operational airport environments.
• Coordinate work around live utilities, existing structures, operational facilities, roads, and airport systems.
• Ensure temporary works support phased construction and complex sequencing requirements.
• Establish inspection points, Hold Points, permits, and release requirements for critical temporary works.
• Verify that temporary works are inspected before loading, use, alteration, transfer, or dismantling.
• Monitor temporary works condition throughout their service period and establish inspection frequencies appropriate to risk.
• Confirm that installed systems remain consistent with approved designs and are not altered without authorization.
• Control modifications, deviations, and field changes to temporary works.
• Ensure revised designs are assessed, checked, approved, and communicated before implementation.
• Coordinate with HSE teams on temporary works risk assessments, Method Statements, lifting activities, and safe systems of work.
• Support safe planning of excavation, structural erection, heavy lifting, and temporary access operations.
• Investigate movement, deformation, instability, defects, failures, unexpected ground conditions, and other temporary works concerns.
• Coordinate immediate controls, technical assessment, corrective actions, and reinspection following identified deficiencies.
• Provide engineering support during complex or high-risk construction activities.
• Review temporary works interfaces with cranes, lifting equipment, plant movements, access routes, and construction logistics.
• Monitor temporary works activities against the construction schedule and identify potential impacts on critical work fronts.
• Participate in constructability reviews, design meetings, technical workshops, and construction planning sessions.
• Coordinate with Client representatives, consultants, contractors, and specialist temporary works designers.
• Review and approve temporary works documentation within delegated authority.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to Temporary Works Engineers, Coordinators, and site personnel.
• Capture lessons learned from recurring design, installation, inspection, and operational issues.
• Maintain complete records of temporary works designs, checks, approvals, inspections, permits, changes, and closeout.
• Ensure controlled dismantling and removal procedures are developed before temporary systems are taken out of service.
• Support quality, safety, and handover requirements by maintaining auditable temporary works documentation.

Ideal Profile

The position requires a bachelor 's degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or another closely related engineering discipline. Candidates should have at least 15 years of relevant engineering and construction experience, including substantial responsibility for temporary works design, technical assurance, site implementation, and management. The successful candidate should have proven experience overseeing temporary works on major airport, infrastructure, industrial, commercial, or technically complex construction programs. Strong structural engineering knowledge is essential, particularly in relation to stability, temporary loading conditions, construction sequencing, load paths, excavation support, formwork, falsework, shoring, propping, and temporary structural systems. Candidates should understand the complete temporary works design process, including preparation of design briefs, risk classification, independent checking, formal approval, inspection, monitoring, modification, and removal. Experience coordinating specialist designers, contractors, consultants, construction teams, HSE professionals, and client representatives is important. The role requires the ability to assess constructability and temporary conditions alongside permanent works design rather than treating temporary structures as isolated systems. Experience with crane platforms, heavy lifting supports, temporary access systems, excavation works, underground construction, and structural erection will strengthen suitability. Knowledge of relevant international codes, temporary works standards, engineering assurance practices, and construction safety requirements is required. Professional engineering registration or an equivalent technical certification is preferred. Strong leadership, technical judgment, decision-making, documentation, multidisciplinary coordination, and project management capabilities are essential.

Skills Set

• Temporary works engineering
• Temporary Works Management System
• Temporary works register
• Temporary works design
• Structural engineering
• Temporary structures
• Design briefs
• Independent design checking
• Design assurance
• Structural calculations
• Construction loads
• Temporary load cases
• Stability analysis
• Excavation support
• Shoring systems
• Temporary retaining systems
• Scaffolding
• Formwork
• Falsework
• Temporary propping
• Temporary bracing
• Structural steel temporary works
• Temporary foundations
• Crane bases
• Working platforms
• Heavy lifting supports
• Temporary bridges
• Temporary access roads
• Temporary platforms
• Equipment supports
• Cofferdams
• Temporary water control
• Temporary drainage
• Construction access systems
• Structural erection
• Underground construction
• Utility construction
• Constructability reviews
• Construction sequencing
• Hold Points
• Temporary works inspections
• Permit systems
• Temporary works monitoring
• Design modifications
• Risk assessment
• Method Statements
• HSE coordination
• Failure investigation
• Corrective actions
• Airport infrastructure
• Airfield construction
• Runway works
• Taxiway works
• Apron works
• Infrastructure coordination
• Contractor management

Why Join Us

Temporary works are among the most safety-critical elements of complex construction because they support the project during conditions that permanent structures were not designed to experience. On a major Riyadh airport and infrastructure program, this role provides authority over systems that directly affect excavation safety, structural erection, lifting operations, access, sequencing, and construction productivity. The position offers a senior Saudi engineer the opportunity to shape temporary works governance across multiple disciplines while applying structural engineering judgment to high-risk and technically demanding construction activities. It also provides broad exposure to airport, airfield, underground, utility, heavy lifting, and major infrastructure delivery.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, construction management, program management, technology, and infrastructure services across complex developments. In Saudi Arabia, its multidisciplinary teams support major airport and infrastructure programs through expertise in civil engineering, structural engineering, construction management, HSE, quality, temporary works assurance, project controls, and technical delivery.