Senior Landscape Architectural Engineer

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a Senior Landscape Architectural Engineer to supervise high-end landscaping and architectural construction projects. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and focuses specifically on golf-course developments.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervise the field execution and final shaping of golf-course features, including greens, tees, fairways, bunkers, mounds, and roughs, in coordination with the Golf Course Shaper and architect.
• Verify feature coordinates, elevations, slopes, contours, drainage falls, and grading tolerances against approved drawings, survey data, and design intent.
• Oversee the construction of USGA-type green profiles, encompassing subgrade preparation, herringbone drainage, gravel layers, intermediate layers (if specified), rootzone placement, and final grading.
• Inspect bunker formation, drainage, lining systems, sand placement, face slopes, edges, and transitions to adjacent playing surfaces.
• Monitor the placement of rootzone, gravel, bunker sand, and soil, ensuring approved materials, layer thicknesses, and compaction methods are utilized.
• Supervise turf sprigging, seeding, or sodding, establishment watering, initial fertilization, mowing, and agronomic grow-in activities.
• Inspect tree, shrub, groundcover, and desert-adapted planting works, including soil preparation, planting pits, staking, mulching, and establishment care.
• Monitor irrigation coverage, sprinkler levels, and the coordination of irrigation components with turf, planting, and finished landscape levels.
• Inspect hardscape installations, such as cart paths, retaining walls, bridges, timber decking, kerbs, paving, steps, course signage, and architectural site furniture.
• Supervise clubhouse and auxiliary-building architectural finishes, including walls, floors, ceilings, doors, joinery, façade elements, and specialist decorative works.
• Compare installed finishes with approved shop drawings, samples, mock-ups, material submissions, and architectural design requirements.
• Process landscape and architectural Requests for Inspection and maintain accurate inspection, testing, photographic, and quality-control records.
• Identify defective, damaged, or nonconforming works, issue observations or nonconformance reports, and enforce timely corrective actions.
• Conduct snagging and pre-handover inspections, and support the verification of as-built drawings, warranties, maintenance information, and closeout documentation.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Agriculture/Agronomy Engineering, or a closely related discipline from an accredited university.
• Minimum of 10 years of site-based supervision experience in high-end landscaping and architectural construction.
• Demonstrated experience working for an engineering supervision consultancy or project-management consultancy.
• Proven experience supervising golf-course developments, sports fields, luxury resorts, or comparable large-scale landscape projects.
• Practical knowledge of golf-course shaping, grading, drainage, greens, tees, bunkers, and cart-path construction.
• Understanding of applicable USGA recommendations for green profiles, rootzones, drainage aggregates, and bunker materials.
• Experience supervising warm-season turf establishment, grow-in, and arid-climate planting.
• Experience inspecting premium architectural finishes, façade elements, fit-out works, and approved mock-ups.
• Ability to interpret landscape, architectural, grading, irrigation, and civil drawings.
• Experience processing inspections, maintaining quality records, and managing nonconforming work.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory.

Required Skills

• Strong site coordination skills.
• Effective reporting abilities.
• Proven problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent contractor-management skills.

Work Environment

This is a full-time, site-based position within Dar Al Riyadh Consultants, focusing on high-end landscaping and architectural projects, particularly golf-course developments in Riyadh.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified requirements are encouraged to apply for this role.