Senior Electrical Engineer📣 إعلان

About the Opportunity

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading the technical review, coordination, and delivery of electrical engineering systems across significant airport, airfield, and supporting infrastructure projects. The successful candidate will provide essential technical oversight throughout the design, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover phases, ensuring electrical systems meet safety, reliability, compliance, and operational requirements.

Role Scope and Impact

This position is central to ensuring the integrity and performance of electrical systems within major airport and airfield developments. The Senior Electrical Engineer will guide the development of electrical engineering solutions, review critical designs, and ensure adherence to international standards, local authority requirements, and airport regulations. A key aspect of the role involves supporting value engineering initiatives and coordinating complex system integrations across various engineering disciplines.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the review, coordination, and development of electrical engineering solutions for airport, airfield, and associated infrastructure projects.
• Review electrical designs, calculations, specifications, drawings, technical reports, and engineering submissions for compliance with international standards, local authority requirements, and project specifications.
• Provide technical guidance and practical engineering solutions to support project delivery objectives, including value engineering initiatives.
• Review and coordinate medium-voltage and low-voltage power distribution systems, substations, transformers, switchgear, generators, and uninterruptible power supply systems, verifying capacity, redundancy, and reliability.
• Perform and review load calculations, short-circuit studies, protection coordination studies, and voltage-drop calculations.
• Coordinate electrical system integration with mechanical, ICT, security, aviation, BMS, SCADA, and airport operational systems.
• Support the design and delivery of airfield electrical infrastructure, including airfield ground lighting systems, associated power networks, control systems, and navigation-aid interfaces, ensuring compliance with aviation requirements.
• Provide engineering support during construction, installation, testing, commissioning, and project handover, including reviewing contractor submittals and conducting site inspections.
• Identify and support the timely resolution of technical issues, construction challenges, and interface problems.
• Review internal and external lighting systems, including area, security, emergency, roadway, and apron lighting.
• Liaise with airport authorities, utility providers, government agencies, consultants, contractors, and project stakeholders.
• Participate in design review meetings, technical workshops, constructability reviews, and multidisciplinary coordination sessions.
• Review electrical models and clashes using BIM and digital engineering platforms.
• Ensure compliance with project specifications, quality standards, regulatory requirements, and approved inspection and test plans.
• Promote safe working practices and ensure electrical designs and installations comply with project HSE requirements and airport safety regulations.
• Prepare and review technical reports, design assessments, engineering recommendations, and progress updates.
• Maintain records of design reviews, approvals, inspections, and engineering decisions.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in electrical engineering design, technical review, construction supervision, testing, commissioning, and project delivery.
• Proven experience supporting major airport, airfield, transportation, or large-scale infrastructure projects.
• Strong experience with electrical power distribution systems, critical electrical infrastructure, and airfield electrical systems.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer, or equivalent professional registration.
• Experience delivering major international airport development, expansion, and airfield infrastructure programs.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Parsons fosters an innovative culture that empowers its employees to achieve their full potential while working with exceptional people.