Senior Civil Structural Engineer Technical Office

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Senior Civil Structural Engineer for their Technical Office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves leading technical reviews and ensuring compliance with engineering standards for various projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical review of structural and civil engineering submissions for building and heavy civil works.
• Review structural shop drawings, steel fabrication details, connection details, rebar bending schedules, and construction drawings.
• Verify structural calculations for reinforced concrete, structural steel, post-tensioned systems, foundations, and temporary works.
• Review civil infrastructure designs, including road profiles, grading, pavement systems, stormwater drainage, utilities, and earthworks.
• Review mass-haul diagrams, cut-and-fill calculations, excavation plans, and ground-improvement proposals.
• Review lake construction details, waterproofing membranes, geotechnical liners, drainage layers, and related civil works.
• Evaluate deep foundation designs, piling systems, retaining structures, shoring, and deep-excavation support.
• Review contractor design alternatives, value-engineering proposals, and structural repair or strengthening methodologies.
• Provide technical responses and engineering resolutions to RFIs, design clashes, discrepancies, and site-related technical issues.
• Review complex material submittals, including high-performance concrete, reinforcement, structural steel, post-tensioning systems, and geotechnical liners.
• Review method statements, Inspection and Test Plans, construction procedures, and temporary works calculations.
• Coordinate technical interfaces between structural, civil, geotechnical, architectural, landscape, and MEP disciplines.
• Liaise with the Contractor’s Technical Office, Designer of Record, specialist vendors, and project supervision team.
• Ensure submissions comply with project specifications, approved designs, Saudi Building Code, and relevant international standards.
• Maintain technical-submittal, RFI, design-change, and approval registers with the Document Controller.
• Provide technical support to the site supervision team and report critical design risks to the Project Manager.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum of 20 years of experience in technical office, structural design, design-review, and construction engineering.
• Proven experience in building structures, heavy civil infrastructure, deep foundations, and complex temporary works.
• Advanced ability to review structural calculations, geotechnical reports, civil infrastructure designs, and hydraulic drainage designs.
• Strong experience reviewing reinforced-concrete, structural-steel, post-tensioned, shoring, and excavation-support systems.
• Experience with roads, pavement design, stormwater drainage, earthworks, and utility coordination.
• Previous experience with an engineering consultancy, design consultant, or construction supervision consultant is required.

Required Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of lake lining, waterproofing membranes, geotechnical liners, or similar water-retaining systems is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of the Saudi Building Code, ACI, AISC, BS/EN, and applicable international standards.
• Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, ETABS, SAFE, SAP2000, and Revit Structure.
• Proven experience reviewing shop drawings, RFIs, material submittals, method statements, ITPs, and value-engineering proposals.
• Strong technical judgment, analytical capability, coordination skills, and report-writing ability.

Work Environment

This role is based in the Technical Office in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and requires coordination with various project teams and external stakeholders.

Application Process

Candidates meeting the specified requirements are encouraged to apply for this position.