Design Compliance Manager Structures📣 Job Ad

About Mace

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to enhance projects and unlock potential. The company is seeking a Design Compliance Manager - Structures to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a full-time position.

The Opportunity and Role Overview

This role supports a major mixed-use development program in Saudi Arabia, currently in its construction phase. The project includes sports facilities, entertainment, arts, and associated infrastructure. As a delivery partner, Mace requires experienced professionals to lead integrated teams. The Design Compliance Manager - Structures will act in the capacity of the engineer, providing independent structural and civil engineering design assurance and compliance oversight. This involves ensuring all structural and civil works adhere to approved designs, employer's requirements, relevant engineering codes, and project specifications.

The position is central to safeguarding structural integrity, design compliance, construction quality, and technical performance throughout the delivery of complex, high-profile developments and infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as part of the engineer's team, providing independent review, verification, and approval of structural and civil engineering design and construction deliverables.
• Supervise structural and civil design compliance during construction, ensuring all works align with approved IFC drawings, engineering calculations, specifications, and employer's requirements.
• Review and approve shop drawings, material submittals, method statements, temporary works proposals, RFIs, and engineering submissions.
• Provide site-based assurance of structural and civil works, including foundations, concrete structures, steelwork, earthworks, roads, utilities, bridges, and associated infrastructure.
• Ensure adherence to approved design intent, engineering standards, constructability requirements, and quality expectations throughout project delivery.
• Identify and manage design deviations, technical non-compliance, constructability challenges, and engineering risks, driving resolution with contractors and design consultants.
• Oversee coordination between structural, civil, geotechnical, architectural, and MEP disciplines, ensuring successful integration across complex project interfaces.
• Review and verify structural systems, temporary works, construction methodologies, and engineering solutions to ensure compliance with performance, safety, and durability requirements.
• Monitor construction activities to ensure structural and civil installations are executed in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, and relevant international standards.
• Support the issuance of engineer's instructions, approvals, technical reviews, and compliance certifications in line with contractual requirements.
• Interface with contractors, supervision teams, specialist consultants, and stakeholders to ensure accurate interpretation and implementation of engineering requirements on site.
• Support authority inspections, approvals, permits, and statutory compliance processes.
• Participate in inspections, testing, commissioning, snagging, handover, and close-out activities, ensuring delivery meets operational and quality objectives.
• Provide reporting on design compliance status, technical risks, construction progress, and quality performance to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate towards a net-zero carbon transition, sharing responsibility for proactive identification and management of associated carbon emissions and reduction opportunities during project delivery.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree qualification in civil engineering, structural engineering, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in structural and civil design compliance, design management, engineering assurance, or construction supervision on major projects.
• Strong experience acting for or alongside the engineer on major projects under FIDIC or similar contract forms.
• Demonstrable experience reviewing and approving structural and civil engineering submittals, shop drawings, construction methodologies, temporary works, and site installations.
• Strong technical background in reinforced concrete, structural steel, foundations, earthworks, infrastructure, utilities, roads, bridges, or major civil engineering works.
• Experience overseeing structural installations, construction sequencing, testing, inspections, and engineering compliance during construction.
• Experience delivering large-scale, complex, or high-profile developments, infrastructure programmes, or major capital projects.
• Strong understanding of engineering design principles, structural analysis, construction methodologies, materials, and applicable international engineering standards and codes.
• Experience within the Middle East, with knowledge of authority and regulatory requirements (KSA preferred).
• Professional accreditation such as CEng, PE, MIStructE, MICE, PMP, or equivalent is preferred.
• Necessary visa criteria for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and relevant work experience on high-value projects/programmes for a project management consultancy business, required for immigration and client approval.

Essential Skills and Attributes

• Strong stakeholder management capabilities.
• Proficiency in technical review processes.
• Effective engineering communication skills.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, working within a dynamic project delivery team. Mace is committed to fostering an inclusive environment and delivering projects that redefine ambition.