Transport & Mobility Engineer

About the Role

Parsons is seeking a Transport & Mobility Engineer to join our team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves contributing to and supporting various traffic engineering, corridor assessment, and mobility improvement activities across the city. The engineer will utilize field observations, traffic data, analytical tools, and engineering judgment to develop practical transportation solutions.

Role Context and Development

This position offers significant development opportunities for an engineer interested in large-city traffic management and operational improvement. The successful candidate will collaborate with experienced traffic engineers, transportation planners, civil engineers, ITS specialists, and RCRC counterparts. The work focuses on assessing road network performance, investigating congestion and safety concerns, and developing implementable improvement concepts for Riyadh's transportation infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Support traffic engineering and mobility assessments at intersections, corridors, highways, access points, public transport interfaces, and congestion hotspots across Riyadh.
• Review various traffic data, including counts, turning movements, travel times, queue observations, speed data, crash information, and video, to identify operational deficiencies.
• Conduct field inspections to document existing traffic operations, geometric constraints, lane-use issues, pedestrian conditions, access conflicts, and parking impacts.
• Develop and review practical traffic management and geometric improvement concepts, such as lane-use changes, turn-lane modifications, access management, signing and marking improvements, signal-timing changes, intersection channelization, and localized capacity improvements.
• Support corridor assessments by identifying recurring bottlenecks, progression issues, queue spillback, operational conflicts, and opportunities for multimodal improvements.
• Prepare technical sketches, exhibits, maps, photographs, calculations, tables, and engineering narratives to explain observed issues and recommended treatments.
• Support senior engineers with analytical tasks using Synchro, GIS, spreadsheets, or other tools to test and compare transportation improvement options.
• Support before-and-after evaluations and the development of performance measures for implemented traffic improvements.
• Coordinate with roadway, signal, ITS, public transport, parking, safety, and construction specialists to ensure recommendations account for wider network impacts.
• Assist with the preparation of assessment reports, corridor studies, presentations, technical memoranda, guidelines, and implementation recommendations.
• Participate in site meetings, technical workshops, and coordination sessions with RCRC and other project stakeholders.
• Maintain organized engineering records, ensuring analysis inputs, assumptions, field observations, and recommendations are traceable.
• Apply current transportation engineering practices while seeking innovative, data-driven solutions appropriate for Riyadh’s operating environment.
• Support implementation monitoring and field verification to determine whether completed improvements are functioning as intended.
• Develop technical capability through mentoring, structured review, and exposure to traffic operations, transportation planning, ITS, and roadway design disciplines.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in transport and mobility engineering. The role requires a strong understanding of traffic engineering principles and analytical tools, coupled with practical experience in assessing and improving transportation networks.

Work Environment

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a collaborative team environment, engaging with various specialists and stakeholders to deliver comprehensive transportation solutions.

About Parsons

Parsons is a global company focused on delivering innovative solutions. The company values its people, embraces agility, and fosters growth, cultivating an innovative culture that empowers employees to achieve their full potential.