Senior Materials Engineer📣 Job Ad

About the Role

HanmiGlobal Saudi is seeking a Senior Materials Engineer to join its program management and PMCM team. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and involves providing program-level materials engineering expertise and technical assurance for a large-scale land and infrastructure development program. The role requires a minimum of 10 years of professional experience.

Role Context and Responsibilities

In this capacity, you will deliver program-level technical expertise, material assurance, and collaborative design support. Your primary focus will be on reviewing and monitoring all material-related specifications and submissions across the program. This ensures that architectural, public realm, infrastructure, and construction materials align with approved durability requirements, sustainability objectives, lifecycle expectations, and the Client’s design criteria, all under the direction of the Design Manager, contributing to the successful delivery of the overall development program.

Key responsibilities include:

• Reviewing and assessing material specifications, schedules of finishes, product data sheets, samples, mock-up proposals, technical submissions, and engineering documentation from Lead Developers and consultants.
• Verifying compliance with approved material standards, project specifications, technical requirements, and Client’s design guidelines.
• Evaluating material suitability, performance, durability, maintainability, sustainability, aesthetics, and lifecycle characteristics.
• Reviewing proposals for architectural finishes, façade systems, paving materials, hardscape elements, landscape materials, street furniture, and infrastructure-related materials.
• Ensuring consistency with approved architectural concepts, urban design objectives, public realm strategies, and environmental conditions.
• Assessing material compatibility with climatic conditions, operational requirements, maintenance strategies, and long-term asset performance.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary material reviews with the Design Manager, Technical Manager, Senior Urban Planning Specialist, and Program Technical Team.
• Reviewing material-related design changes, technical deviations, and Value Engineering proposals, assessing their impact on quality, durability, sustainability, functionality, cost, maintainability, aesthetics, and lifecycle performance.
• Assessing material testing reports, certification documentation, mock-ups, and approval submissions for compliance.
• Preparing technical assessments, material review comments, executive summaries, and recommendations.
• Coordinating with Lead Developers, consultants, suppliers, testing laboratories, and technical specialists to resolve material-related issues.
• Promoting engineering excellence, innovation, sustainable material selection, continuous improvement, and best practices.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess the following qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Materials Engineering, Civil Engineering, Construction Materials Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Chartered Professional membership or equivalent professional accreditation.
• A minimum of fifteen (15) years of professional experience in construction materials, architectural finishes, infrastructure materials, public realm developments, urban development, or major capital projects.
• Experience within PMCM, PMC, consultancy, developer, contractor, testing laboratories, or client-side organizations, preferably on large-scale infrastructure and land development projects in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.