Senior Landscape Architectural Engineer Technical Office

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Senior Landscape Architectural Engineer for its Technical Office in Riyadh. This full-time role involves leading the review and coordination of various project packages, with a specific focus on golf course development and related architectural elements. The position requires a minimum of 10 years of professional experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical-office review and coordination of golf-course shaping, landscape, agronomy, architectural, and interior-fit-out packages.
• Review golf grading plans, digital terrain and contour models, fairway profiles, greens, tees, bunker geometry, cart paths, and landscape levels against approved master golf layouts.
• Evaluate rootzone profiles, drainage layers, gravel blankets, bunker sands, and other specialist golf-construction materials against applicable USGA recommendations and project specifications.
• Review soil-physics and agronomy laboratory reports, including particle-size distribution, infiltration, permeability, porosity, organic content, salinity, and compatibility results.
• Review landscape planting plans, schedules, details, and specifications for suitability under Riyadh’s climate, water availability, and maintenance conditions.
• Evaluate nursery submissions, plant samples, certified turfgrass varieties, soil conditioners, fertilizers, mulches, and desert-adapted planting materials.
• Verify the suitability of Paspalum, Bermuda, and other proposed turf varieties for intended playing surfaces, irrigation-water quality, and environmental conditions.
• Review and recommend approval of clubhouse and support-building architectural shop drawings, interior fit-out packages, façade systems, finishes, doors, ceilings, and related material submittals.
• Coordinate architectural and landscape interfaces with civil grading, irrigation, drainage, lake structures, retaining elements, utilities, lighting, and MEP systems.
• Provide technically justified responses to contractor RFIs concerning grading, landscape-to-civil interfaces, cart-path geometry, lake edges, architectural details, and material substitutions.
• Review contractor method statements for earth shaping, rootzone placement, turf establishment, grow-in, bunker construction and lining, planting, and specialist architectural finishes.
• Assess contractor design alternatives, value-engineering proposals, mock-ups, and samples for compliance with approved design intent and performance requirements.
• Monitor technical submissions, review cycles, resubmissions, and outstanding decisions, identifying issues that may affect construction progress or quality.
• Review redline markups, as-built drawings, landscape records, planting schedules, material warranties, and architectural closeout documentation before final acceptance.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Architectural Engineering, or a closely related discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 20 years of professional experience in landscape architecture, architectural technical-office engineering, and design management.
• Demonstrated experience on major landscape, resort, hospitality, leisure, or master-development projects.
• Extensive technical experience involving championship or international-standard golf-course design and construction.

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of golf-course shaping, grading, drainage, greens construction, bunker profiles, and turfgrass establishment.
• Practical understanding of applicable USGA recommendations for greens, rootzones, drainage aggregates, and specialist golf materials.
• Experience reviewing architectural shop drawings, interior fit-out packages, façade submissions, and high-quality finishes.
• Strong experience evaluating laboratory reports, material submissions, mock-ups, samples, and contractor method statements.
• Ability to coordinate landscape and architectural designs with civil, structural, irrigation, electrical, and mechanical disciplines.
• Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Land F/X, Adobe Photoshop, and BIM/Revit workflows.
• Strong technical reporting, design-review, coordination, and problem-solving skills.