Transport & Mobility Engineer

About the Role

Parsons is seeking a Transport & Mobility Engineer to join its 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 identify practical and innovative transportation solutions.

Role Context and Development

The Transport & Mobility Engineer will collaborate with experienced traffic engineers, transportation planners, civil engineers, ITS specialists, and RCRC counterparts. The primary focus will be on assessing road network performance, investigating causes of congestion and safety concerns, and developing implementable improvement concepts. This position offers significant development opportunities through hands-on exposure to large-city traffic management and operational improvement projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Support traffic engineering and mobility assessments at intersections, corridors, highways, access points, public transport interfaces, and congestion hotspots throughout Riyadh.
• Review various traffic data, including counts, turning-movement data, 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 concise 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 consider 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 traceability of analysis inputs, assumptions, field observations, and recommendations.
• 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 the effectiveness of completed improvements.
• Develop technical capability through mentoring, structured review, and exposure to traffic operations, transportation planning, ITS, and roadway-design disciplines.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of relevant experience in transport and mobility engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to apply traffic engineering principles and analytical tools.
• Experience with field observations and data collection for transportation assessments.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role involves working within a multidisciplinary team and coordinating with various internal and external stakeholders, including RCRC counterparts.