Senior Electrical Engineer Technical Office

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer for their Technical Office in Riyadh. This full-time role involves leading the technical review and coordination of electrical engineering packages for major projects, requiring a minimum of 10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical-office review and coordination of all electrical engineering packages.
• Review electrical design criteria, specifications, drawings, schedules, calculations, and technical submissions.
• Verify fault-level and short-circuit calculations for medium- and low-voltage systems.
• Review load schedules, demand factors, diversity factors, and maximum-demand calculations.
• Validate voltage-drop calculations, cable sizing, current-carrying capacity, and cable-derating factors.
• Review protection-coordination studies, relay settings, selectivity analyses, and time-current curves.
• Verify earthing-system designs, earth-fault calculations, touch and step voltage criteria, and bonding arrangements.
• Review lightning-protection and surge-protection calculations and layouts.
• Evaluate power-factor-correction requirements, harmonic studies, and electrical power-quality considerations.
• Review and recommend approval of shop drawings for medium- and low-voltage distribution networks.
• Review substation arrangements, transformers, ring-main units, switchgear, distribution boards, and feeder layouts.
• Verify electrical designs for irrigation pump stations, lake systems, utility buildings, and auxiliary facilities.
• Review motor-control centres, variable-frequency drives, soft starters, motor protection, and local-control panels.
• Review standby generators, automatic transfer switches, synchronization panels, and emergency-power arrangements.
• Verify that equipment ratings, fault withstand capacity, ingress protection, and environmental classifications are suitable for the intended installation.
• Coordinate power requirements for irrigation pumps, lake aeration, water features, lighting, and other landscape systems.
• Review specialized schematics for golf-course two-wire irrigation decoders, field controllers, solenoid valves, and central-control systems.
• Verify interfaces among irrigation controllers, weather stations, flow sensors, pump controls, and communication networks.
• Review communication-cable routes, field-device requirements, surge protection, and control-panel interfaces.
• Coordinate electrical and control-system requirements with irrigation, mechanical, landscape, and civil disciplines.
• Validate lighting designs and photometric calculations for driving ranges, practice greens, pathways, roads, car parks, and landscape areas.
• Review glare control, uniformity, illumination levels, pole locations, luminaire selection, and lighting-control strategies.
• Coordinate external lighting with landscape features, irrigation networks, underground utilities, and site operations.
• Review clubhouse electrical systems, including normal, essential, emergency, and uninterruptible power supplies.
• Review clubhouse lighting, small power, distribution, metering, earthing, and lightning-protection systems.
• Review fire-alarm, Building Management System, CCTV, access-control, public-address, Wi-Fi, structured-cabling, and other low-current systems.
• Verify ELV system architecture, equipment compatibility, containment, power supplies, and integration requirements.
• Coordinate fire and life-safety systems with mechanical smoke-control, emergency-power, and building-management systems.
• Review electrical interfaces with architectural, structural, mechanical, civil, irrigation, and landscape works.
• Coordinate equipment-room layouts, electrical rooms, service corridors, risers, trenches, duct banks, and cable routes.
• Review Combined Services Drawings, coordinated shop drawings, and BIM clash-detection reports.
• Verify requirements for builders’ work, sleeves, openings, embedded items, equipment bases, and maintenance clearances.
• Evaluate electrical material and equipment submittals, including transformers, switchgear, distribution boards, cables, VFDs, luminaires, control panels, and lightning-protection components.
• Confirm compliance with approved specifications, calculations, datasheets, schedules, and relevant standards.
• Review manufacturers’ technical data, type-test certificates, factory-test procedures, warranties, and spare-parts recommendations.
• Respond to technical queries and RFIs and develop technically justified recommendations.
• Review contractor design alternatives, deviations, and value-engineering proposals.
• Assess the technical and operational consequences of proposed changes before recommending acceptance.
• Coordinate with Saudi Electricity Company and other authorities regarding connection requirements, technical approvals, and energization.
• Support resolution of SEC comments and monitor closure of outstanding technical requirements.
• Conduct site visits to verify that installed systems comply with approved drawings and coordinated designs.
• Provide technical support to the Senior Electrical Site Engineer during inspections, testing, and problem resolution.
• Review field changes and ensure that approved modifications are captured in redline drawings and final as-built documentation.
• Review electrical testing and commissioning procedures, inspection and test plans, and commissioning schedules.
• Witness or review tests for cables, switchgear, transformers, protection systems, generators, earthing, lighting, and ELV systems.
• Support integrated systems testing involving emergency power, fire alarm, BMS, security, and life-safety systems.
• Review testing results, commissioning reports, outstanding defects, and corrective-action records.
• Review electrical sections of operation and maintenance manuals, training materials, asset registers, and handover packages.
• Maintain technical review logs and monitor contractor responses, resubmissions, and approval status.
• Prepare technical reports highlighting design risks, noncompliance, outstanding decisions, and recommended actions.
• Advise the Project Manager on critical electrical matters affecting quality, cost, schedule, safety, and system performance.
• Ensure compliance with the Saudi Building Code, Saudi Electricity Company standards, Civil Defense requirements, Client procedures, and applicable international standards.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from an accredited and recognized university.
• Minimum 20 years of professional experience in electrical technical-office engineering, design review, and design management.
• Demonstrated experience on major infrastructure, building, landscape, or multidisciplinary development projects.
• Proven experience working for an engineering supervision consultancy, project-management consultancy, or design consultant.
• Extensive knowledge of medium- and low-voltage power-distribution systems and substation design.
• Deep working knowledge of Saudi Electricity Company standards and technical-approval requirements.
• Experience coordinating complex external power-distribution networks with building electrical systems.
• Strong experience reviewing electrical calculations, protection studies, drawings, and material submissions.
• Demonstrated experience with pump-station power systems, standby generators, VFDs, and motor-control systems.
• Sound knowledge of fire-alarm, BMS, CCTV, access-control, public-address, Wi-Fi, and structured-cabling systems.
• Advanced proficiency in ETAP, DIALux, AutoCAD, and Revit MEP.
• Ability to review BIM models, coordinated services drawings, and multidisciplinary interfaces.
• Strong technical writing, engineering judgment, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the above qualifications are encouraged to apply.