Project Quality Specialist Dry Utilities (Saudi National)📣 Job Ad

About Parsons and the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Project Quality Specialist – Dry Utilities to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves supporting the implementation of project quality requirements for dry utility works, monitoring construction activities, and ensuring compliance with approved drawings, specifications, and procedures. The specialist will contribute to cultivating an innovative culture focused on quality assurance within project execution.

Core Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of project quality requirements for dry utility works.
• Monitor construction activities to ensure compliance with approved drawings, specifications, Method Statements, and Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs).
• Conduct quality inspections and surveillance of dry utility installation activities.
• Review and monitor dry utility-related ITPs, checklists, inspection procedures, and testing requirements.
• Review Material Inspection Requests (MIRs), Work Inspection Requests (WIRs), test reports, material certificates, and technical documentation.
• Verify that approved materials and equipment are used and properly stored, handled, and installed.
• Monitor Contractor and Subcontractor quality performance for dry utility works.
• Identify defects, non-conformances, and quality risks at an early stage.
• Raise, review, and monitor Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs) and quality observations related to dry utilities.
• Support root cause analysis and the implementation of corrective and preventive actions, verifying these actions prior to NCR closure.
• Monitor quality records and ensure proper traceability of inspections and tests.
• Participate in quality audits, inspections, technical meetings, and coordination workshops.
• Support the investigation and resolution of technical quality issues, coordinating with Engineering and Construction teams.
• Support the preparation of weekly and monthly quality reports.
• Monitor quality trends and recurring defects, recommending improvement measures.
• Support testing, commissioning, and final handover of dry utility systems.

Dry Utilities Quality Oversight

The role provides quality oversight for a range of dry utility systems and infrastructure, including:

• Electrical Power Distribution (Medium Voltage (MV) and Low Voltage (LV) Networks, Substations, Feeder Pillars, Electrical Duct Banks, Cable Trenches, Cable Chambers/Manholes, Street Lighting Infrastructure, Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) Interfaces).
• Telecom Networks (ICT Infrastructure, Data/Fiber Optic Networks, ELV Systems, Security/Access Control Infrastructure, CCTV Infrastructure, Communication Networks).
• Earthing & Bonding Systems, Lightning Protection Systems, Utility Corridors and Shared Services, and associated Chambers, Ducts, Sleeves, and Infrastructure.
• Specific installation quality control tasks include inspecting dry utility ducts, conduits, cable routes, chambers, and manholes; verifying utility alignments, levels, depths, and routing; monitoring cable installation, termination, and jointing; and inspecting electrical and communication equipment.
• Ensure interfaces between dry utilities and civil works are coordinated, verify utility crossings and protection systems, and coordinate inspections prior to backfilling.
• Provide quality oversight for dry utility infrastructure serving airport terminals, airfield facilities, roads, aprons, taxiways, runways, and external areas, ensuring compliance with client, authority, and airport-specific requirements.

Testing, Commissioning, and Coordination

• Monitor testing requirements for dry utility systems and review/verify approved testing procedures and commissioning plans.
• Coordinate inspection and testing with Contractors, Commissioning teams, Consultants, and Client representatives.
• Review test results and verify compliance with approved acceptance criteria, monitoring various electrical, fiber optic, and telecom testing as applicable.
• Ensure test failures are properly investigated and corrective actions implemented, maintaining complete testing and commissioning quality records.
• Coordinate with Dry Utilities Engineers to ensure quality requirements are incorporated into construction activities and review approved utility drawings and design changes.
• Coordinate dry utility interfaces with Civil, Structural, Roads, Drainage, MEP, ICT, Security, and Landscaping works.
• Support BIM coordination and verification of utility models, and ensure construction teams work to the latest approved drawings.

Quality Assurance and Reporting

• Review and monitor dry utility-related NCRs and quality observations, supporting root cause identification for defects and failures.
• Coordinate corrective actions with Contractors and Construction teams, verifying rectification works and supporting evidence.
• Track recurring issues and recommend preventive measures, maintaining dry utility quality registers and action trackers.
• Support quality audits and surveillance inspections for dry utility contractors and subcontractors, monitoring compliance with project quality procedures and ISO 9001 principles.
• Prepare inspection reports and quality observations, tracking quality performance and corrective action closure.
• Prepare weekly and monthly quality reports, monitoring key quality indicators such as NCRs, Quality Observations, Inspection Pass Rate, Test Failures, Material Rejections, Rework, Audit Findings, and Corrective Action Closure.
• Highlight recurring quality issues and potential risks to Project Quality Management.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this position should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in project quality management, specifically within dry utility works. A demonstrated ability to monitor construction activities, ensure compliance with technical specifications, and manage quality documentation is essential for this role.