Lead QA Engineer

About the Role

Parsons is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to join the Construction Supervision team for a major landmark development project in Riyadh. This is a full-time position focused on ensuring quality standards across a large-scale destination development.

Project Context

The project involves the design, enabling, and main works for a significant destination development, including iconic assets, hospitality facilities, and supporting infrastructure. The role operates within a client governance framework with strict requirements for programme, quality, safety, and sustainability. The Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC) is responsible for independent, end-to-end supervision and management to ensure all works are completed, integrated, tested, commissioned, and handed over to support successful operations and long-term legacy objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Quality Systems support using the Parsons Quality Management System for process development, optimization, procedure development, data collection, reporting, and quality training.
• Support client pre-bid, bid, contract planning, and project mobilization activities as directed.
• Establish project and programme Quality Management Systems, including quality plans, manuals, procedures, inspection frameworks, and audit schedules.
• Plan and conduct independent audits across project functions and ensure compliance with approved QA/QC programmes.
• Review project documents, witness audited activities, prepare audit checklists, and issue formal audit reports.
• Analyse audit findings to assess overall programme quality performance and identify recurring issues, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Promote and maintain a consistent Corrective Action/Preventive Action, Non-Conformance Report, and quality-observation tracking system.
• Monitor the timely closeout and effectiveness verification of corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure compliance with Parsons’ quality requirements, client standards, contract requirements, and approved project procedures.
• Prepare, review, update, and maintain project and programme Quality Manuals, Quality Plans, procedures, forms, and other quality-system documentation.
• Review and approve quality-related documents prepared by internal teams, contractors, consultants, and other external organizations.
• Provide quality support to project and construction management, including interfaces between engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
• Perform statistical process control and evaluate quality performance data to identify trends, risks, and areas requiring management attention.
• Prepare quality performance reports, dashboards, metrics, and management summaries.
• Support quality-management reviews, lessons-learned workshops, and continual-improvement initiatives.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to lower-level Quality Engineers and Quality personnel.
• Coordinate with construction supervision, engineering, testing and commissioning, document control, and client representatives to ensure effective quality-system implementation.
• Perform other responsibilities associated with the position as appropriate.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, quality management systems, construction supervision, or major infrastructure and building projects.
• Experience working on large-scale, complex, multidisciplinary construction or destination-development projects.

Desired Skills and Certifications

• Professional certification such as ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, CQI/IRCA, ASQ, or equivalent.
• Membership of a recognized engineering or quality professional body.
• Experience with major programmes in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East.
• Experience supporting testing, commissioning, integrated systems, and project handover.
• Knowledge of statistical process control and quality-performance analytics.
• Previous experience working for a construction supervision consultant, programme management consultant, or client representative.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, within a construction supervision team overseeing a significant development project.