Senior Urban Planning Specialist📣 Job Ad

About the Role

HanmiGlobal Saudi is seeking a qualified Senior Urban Planning Specialist to join its program management and PMCM team. This full-time position is based in Riyadh and focuses on delivering urban planning expertise for a significant land and infrastructure development program.

Role Context and Responsibilities

In this role, you will provide program-level planning expertise, technical assurance, and collaborative design support. Your primary focus will be on reviewing and monitoring master planning, land use, and public realm submissions to ensure integration with approved frameworks, sustainability objectives, planning regulations, and client criteria. You will support the successful delivery of the overall development program under the direction of the Design Manager.

Key responsibilities include:

• Reviewing and assessing master plans, land use plans, urban planning studies, urban design proposals, development strategies, and planning submissions for compliance with approved frameworks, client requirements, statutory regulations, and project objectives.
• Evaluating zoning, land use allocation, development density, planning controls, phasing strategies, and development capacity to support efficient and sustainable land development.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary planning reviews with the Design Manager and Program Technical Team, ensuring integration across urban planning, transportation, infrastructure, utilities, landscape, environmental, and engineering disciplines.
• Identifying and resolving planning conflicts, interface issues, and development constraints, while supporting the assessment of Value Engineering proposals, design changes, and planning risks.
• Liaising with the Client, government authorities, utility providers, Lead Developers, Consultants, and other stakeholders to facilitate planning approvals, resolve technical comments, and ensure compliance with planning and regulatory requirements.
• Participating in planning workshops, technical review meetings, stakeholder consultations, and multidisciplinary coordination sessions.
• Preparing planning assessments, review comments, technical reports, recommendations, and executive summaries.
• Maintaining accurate records of planning reviews, approvals, and coordination activities, and promoting planning best practices and continuous improvement.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess the following qualifications and experience:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Urban Planning, Town Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Regional Planning, or a related discipline.
• Chartered Professional membership or equivalent professional accreditation.
• A minimum of fifteen (15) years of professional experience in urban planning, master planning, mixed-use developments, land development, infrastructure programs, or major urban development projects.
• Experience within PMCM, PMC, consultancy, developer, or client-side organizations, preferably on major developments in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.

Core Competencies

Successful candidates will demonstrate proficiency in the following areas:

• Urban and Master Planning
• Land Use Planning & Development Control
• Urban Design & Public Realm Planning
• Sustainable Urban Development
• Planning Compliance & Regulatory Review
• Multidisciplinary Planning Coordination
• Infrastructure and Land Use Integration
• Planning Risk Assessment
• Value Engineering Review
• Stakeholder & Authority Coordination
• Technical Report Preparation
• Leadership, Strategic Thinking, Communication, and Problem Solving