Technical Director

About the Role

WSP in the Middle East is seeking a Technical Director - Electrical to join the Building Services team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position supports an ongoing project and requires an experienced electrical building services professional with a strong multidisciplinary understanding of MEP design and delivery. The role involves senior, client-facing technical leadership.

Role Purpose

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership for electrical building services, ensuring high-quality project delivery. This includes close coordination with wider MEP and multidisciplinary teams, maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships, and ensuring compliance with project requirements, applicable codes, authority requirements, and WSP quality procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical authority for electrical Building Services, providing clear direction on complex design and delivery matters.
• Lead key electrical design reviews, challenge assumptions, and resolve difficult technical and multidisciplinary interfaces.
• Oversee electrical systems including power distribution, lighting, emergency power, earthing and lightning protection, and interfaces with ELV and life-safety systems, as applicable to the project.
• Ensure designs are coordinated, buildable, efficient, and aligned with the client brief, applicable codes, authority requirements, sustainability objectives, and WSP quality procedures.
• Promote practical, innovative, and digitally enabled solutions that improve quality, coordination, and project outcomes.

Project and Stakeholder Leadership

• Provide senior technical leadership throughout project delivery, supporting mobilisation, design development, coordination, and close-out as required.
• Work closely with the client, project management team, architects, engineers, specialist consultants, and other project stakeholders.
• Support resolution of technical issues and provide clear, credible recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Monitor technical risks, programme interfaces, design dependencies, and quality, intervening early where corrective action is required.
• Represent WSP as a trusted senior technical adviser and maintain strong professional relationships with the client and project partners.

Team Collaboration and Governance

• Guide and mentor electrical engineers and support effective collaboration across the wider Building Services team.
• Coordinate with WSP specialists across Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, and the wider global business when specialist input is required.
• Apply WSP project management, quality assurance, health and safety, ethics, and governance requirements consistently.
• Support effective scope, change, risk, and commercial awareness within the project team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Over 10 years of relevant experience in electrical building services.
• Strong multidisciplinary understanding of MEP design and delivery.
• Proven experience in a senior technical leadership role.
• Ability to manage client and stakeholder relationships effectively.