Defects Liability Period (DLP) Snagging Engineer (Saudi National)

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Defects Liability Period (DLP) Snagging Engineer to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is open to Saudi Nationals and requires 2-5 years of experience. The role focuses on the technical identification, coordination, tracking, and close-out of defects, snags, and DLP obligations across assigned assets.

Role Purpose and Context

The DLP Snagging Engineer provides engineering support for DLP and snagging activities. This involves close collaboration with project teams, consultants, contractors, service providers, and internal stakeholders to ensure defects are recorded, assessed, prioritized, rectified, evidenced, and closed in accordance with contractual obligations, handover requirements, operational standards, and client expectations. The position supports asset handover, operational readiness, and the transition into steady-state operations, ensuring that defects do not compromise safety, statutory compliance, maintainability, service continuity, or user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day DLP and snagging engineering support for assigned assets, identifying, assessing, logging, prioritizing, and progressing defects and operational readiness issues towards closure.
• Conduct and participate in inspections, joint walkthroughs, snagging reviews, defect verification visits, and close-out validation with relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate defect and snag registers, ensuring clear ownership, engineering descriptions, priorities, target dates, statuses, supporting evidence, escalation routes, and formal close-out records.
• Monitor DLP obligations and contractor performance from a technical perspective, including rectification progress, recurring defects, response times, quality of repair, warranty issues, and outstanding liabilities, escalating concerns as needed.
• Support asset handover and operational readiness by technically reviewing handover documentation, O&M manuals, asset registers, warranties, test records, training records, permits, compliance documentation, and defect close-out evidence.
• Utilize CAFM/CMMS systems, snagging platforms, dashboards, and reporting tools for defect data control, progress tracking, evidence management, and performance reporting.
• Assess defects and snags from an operational and engineering risk perspective, addressing impacts on safety, statutory compliance, asset reliability, accessibility, maintainability, service continuity, and user experience.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders across various services (hard, soft, roads, landscaping, utilities, mobility, public realm, security, events, FM service partners, project delivery teams) to resolve cross-functional defects and interface issues.
• Contribute to governance reviews, readiness meetings, risk reporting, contractor performance discussions, commercial challenge, CAPEX/OPEX clarification, and lessons learned related to defects, warranty, and handover quality.
• Provide technical guidance and support to junior team members and site-based resources, promoting disciplined close-out, accurate reporting, evidence-based decision making, and continuous improvement in DLP and snagging management.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience in DLP governance support, snagging management, technical defect identification, root cause analysis, rectification coordination, and close-out control.
• Proficiency in asset handover, operational readiness, completion inspections, technical acceptance criteria, and transition into steady-state operations.
• Strong understanding of hard services (MEP, building systems), soft services interfaces, public realm, infrastructure, utilities, roads, landscaping, and building service interactions.
• Competence in contractor governance support, warranty management, SLA/KPI monitoring, inspections, audits, compliance reviews, and performance reporting.
• Proficiency in CAFM/CMMS systems, snagging platforms, dashboards, work order control, asset data quality, evidence management, and recurring defect analysis.
• Knowledge of health, safety, and statutory compliance, permit-to-work processes, operational risk assessment, and public access risk management.
• Effective stakeholder coordination, escalation management, meeting participation, reporting discipline, and cross-functional issue resolution.
• Commercial awareness, basic contract interpretation, liability tracking, cost impact understanding, lessons learned, and contribution to continuous improvement.

Work Environment

This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and operates on a full-time schedule within a collaborative team environment at Parsons Corporation.