Life Safety Engineer📣 Job Ad

About the Role

AtkinsRéalis is seeking a Life Safety Engineer to join the Transportation Project Delivery team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves contributing to a multi-disciplinary Transportation project, focusing on Fire Life Safety aspects throughout the design and construction phases. The position requires 5-10 years of experience and offers opportunities to develop technical leadership skills within a large-scale project environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise and guidance on life safety systems design and construction, ensuring compliance with relevant codes and standards.
• Support the development of governance and process documentation for life safety systems engineering practices.
• Represent the PMCM team in coordinating Fire Life and Safety matters with authorities having jurisdiction.
• Ensure life safety systems design and construction meet technical requirements through design reviews, submittal reviews, inspections, and testing.
• Offer engineering expertise to the construction supervision team via field inspections during various construction stages.
• Assess alternative compliance proposals from contractors, providing feedback on feasibility and alignment with client requirements.
• Coordinate technical elements of the program related to life safety systems engineering, including establishing targets and goals.
• Manage the interface between engineering and architectural disciplines to ensure integration and coordination across client programs.
• Review contractor/designer deliverables for compliance with requirements, codes, and standards.
• Monitor designer input during the construction phase, including RFIs, shop drawings, material approvals, and punch lists.
• Prepare management-level progress reports and briefings on fire and life safety systems design progress, issues, and opportunities.
• Coach, mentor, and support career development for client staff members as required.
• Maintain a proactive safety aptitude and contribute positively to a culture of safety.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Demonstrable experience (5-10 years) in the design, design supervision, construction, and commissioning of transport-related facilities involving passenger flows.
• Experience should cover mechanical, electrical, passive, and active fire protection systems. Railway-related experience is considered advantageous.
• Expertise in Fire Protection in buildings through passive and active systems.
• Expertise in smoke management using passive and active solutions, including evaluation of CFD models.
• Expertise in occupant safety, compartmentation, evacuation, and pedestrian flow models.
• Knowledge of Life Safety systems, standards, regulations, codes, laws, authority requirements, and technologies.
• Experience and knowledge of agency jurisdictions in Riyadh will be considered a plus.
• Knowledge of field construction, project management, and procurement methods and practices, including standard safety requirements, construction procedures, document control, site acceptance testing, and factory acceptance testing.

Skills and Attributes

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including the ability to facilitate meetings and workshops with diverse groups.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in completing inspection and examination testing paperwork.
• Collaborative approach and effective communication skills.
• Good organizational skills, accustomed to a fast-paced office environment combining design review, engineering, construction supervision, and administration.
• Adaptability to flexible working hours arrangements.
• Experience working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East region is preferred.

Work Environment and Location

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a dynamic project team, coordinating across various disciplines and with external contractors and authorities. A proactive approach to safety is expected and encouraged within the work environment.

Application Process

Candidates meeting the specified qualifications are encouraged to apply.