Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About the Role

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support the delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure and land development projects across Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and involves coordinating technical delivery, managing project activities, and ensuring high-quality outcomes throughout the project lifecycle. The role requires 5-10 years of experience in infrastructure project delivery.

Role Context and Contribution

Working closely with Project Managers, design teams, clients, and stakeholders, the Senior Infrastructure Engineer will play a key role in project delivery, proposal development, and business growth. This position contributes to driving innovation, digital delivery, and continuous improvement across projects, focusing on technical and project management aspects.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate multidisciplinary infrastructure design teams across highways, utilities, drainage, and civil structures.
• Support the planning, management, and delivery of land development and infrastructure projects from CMP and DMP through to Detailed Design.
• Manage project delivery activities including programme management, resources, risks, actions, and deliverables.
• Review design outputs to ensure technical integration, consistency, and compliance with project requirements.
• Interface with clients, authorities, stakeholders, and subconsultants throughout project delivery.
• Monitor project performance, budget, schedule, and quality in collaboration with the Project Manager.
• Prepare scopes of work, fee proposals, programmes, and resource plans.
• Coordinate design reviews, workshops, and project meetings, tracking actions through to close-out.
• Produce and review technical reports, design briefs, methodologies, and project documentation.
• Support business development activities, proposal preparation, and client relationship management.
• Support continuous improvement and digital ways of working, sharing knowledge and lessons learned.
• Demonstrate safe, ethical, and inclusive behaviours aligned to Mott MacDonald values.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Proven experience in engineering consultancy or infrastructure project delivery.
• Professionally qualified engineer (CEng, PE, SCE or equivalent).
• Experience delivering multidisciplinary infrastructure or land development projects.
• Experience working across multiple project stages including CMP, DMP, Concept Design, and Detailed Design.
• Broad understanding of infrastructure engineering disciplines including highways, utilities, drainage, earthworks, and civil structures.
• Experience coordinating design teams and managing project delivery activities.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and commercial awareness skills.

Desirable Skills and Attributes

• Project Management qualification (PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent).
• Experience working on major land development, mixed-use, transport, or infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing authority approvals and stakeholder engagement within Saudi Arabia.
• Arabic language capability (spoken and written).
• Experience working within a BIM and digital delivery environment.

Application Information

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.