- Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Principal
The Principal Design Manager will provide leadership and direction for the planning, coordination, management and assurance of multidisciplinary design activities on major buildings and transport infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia and, where required, across the wider Middle East.
Responsibilities
- Lead multidisciplinary design delivery, coordinating discipline leads and design teams to achieve the required scope, programme, quality and commercial objectives.
- Manage the detailed design process, ensuring designs are sufficiently developed, coordinated, constructible and appropriate for procurement and construction.
- Manage design scope and change, maintaining clarity of contractual requirements, deliverables, assumptions and exclusions, and identifying scope changes or additional services at an early stage.
- Oversee technical assurance and design reviews, ensuring appropriate checking and approval processes are undertaken by suitably qualified discipline leads.
- Ensure compliance with applicable codes and standards, including relevant Saudi codes, authority requirements, client standards and applicable international engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in civil, structural, mechanical or electrical engineering, architecture, or another relevant engineering or built-environment discipline
- Nice to have: Experience delivering major multidisciplinary projects in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East
- Nice to have: Understanding of the Saudi project-delivery and authority-approval environment