Summary
Dar Al Riyadh is seeking a Senior Civil Structural Engineer for its technical office in Riyadh. The role leads reviews of structural and civil designs, calculations, drawings, material submittals, method statements, and construction-related technical issues across building and heavy civil works. Applicants must have at least 20 years of relevant experience, a civil or structural engineering degree, and valid Saudi Council of Engineers registration as a Professional or Consultant Engineer. Experience with engineering or construction supervision consultancies and fluency in written and spoken English are required; Arabic and a master’s degree in Structural Engineering are preferred.
The posting
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Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the technical review of structural and civil engineering submissions for building and heavy civil works.
- Review structural shop drawings, steel fabrication details, connection details, rebar bending schedules, and construction drawings.
- Verify structural calculations for reinforced concrete, structural steel, post-tensioned systems, foundations, and temporary works.
- Review civil infrastructure designs, including road profiles, grading, pavement systems, stormwater drainage, utilities, and earthworks.
- Review mass-haul diagrams, cut-and-fill calculations, excavation plans, and ground-improvement proposals.
- Review lake construction details, waterproofing membranes, geotechnical liners, drainage layers, and related civil works.
- Evaluate deep foundation designs, piling systems, retaining structures, shoring, and deep-excavation support.
- Review contractor design alternatives, value-engineering proposals, and structural repair or strengthening methodologies.
- Provide technical responses and engineering resolutions to RFIs, design clashes, discrepancies, and site-related technical issues.
- Review complex material submittals, including high-performance concrete, reinforcement, structural steel, post-tensioning systems, and geotechnical liners.
- Review method statements, Inspection and Test Plans, construction procedures, and temporary works calculations.
- Coordinate technical interfaces between structural, civil, geotechnical, architectural, landscape, and MEP disciplines.
- Liaise with the Contractor’s Technical Office, Designer of Record, specialist vendors, and project supervision team.
- Ensure submissions comply with project specifications, approved designs, Saudi Building Code, and relevant international standards.
- Maintain technical-submittal, RFI, design-change, and approval registers with the Document Controller.
- Provide technical support to the site supervision team and report critical design risks to the Project Manager.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering from an accredited university.
- Minimum 20 years of technical office, structural design, design-review, and construction engineering experience.
- Valid Saudi Council of Engineers registration as a Professional or Consultant Engineer is mandatory.
- Proven experience in building structures, heavy civil infrastructure, deep foundations, and complex temporary works.
- Advanced ability to review structural calculations, geotechnical reports, civil infrastructure designs, and hydraulic drainage designs.
- Strong experience reviewing reinforced-concrete, structural-steel, post-tensioned, shoring, and excavation-support systems.
- Experience with roads, pavement design, stormwater drainage, earthworks, and utility coordination.
- Knowledge of lake lining, waterproofing membranes, geotechnical liners, or similar water-retaining systems is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of the Saudi Building Code, ACI, AISC, BS/EN, and applicable international standards.
- Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, ETABS, SAFE, SAP2000, and Revit Structure.
- Proven experience reviewing shop drawings, RFIs, material submittals, method statements, ITPs, and value-engineering proposals.
- Previous experience with an engineering consultancy, design consultant, or construction supervision consultant is required.
- Strong technical judgement, analytical capability, coordination skills, and report-writing ability.
- A master’s degree in Structural Engineering is preferred.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is mandatory; Arabic is preferred.