Lead Project Engineer

Role Purpose :

The Lead Project Engineer is accountable for technical coordination, engineering assurance, execution readiness, and day-to-day integration of assigned infrastructure packages across the KSG Infrastructure Works program.

The role represents the Client's lead construction interface for assigned packages, ensuring that all consultants, contractors, and third parties plan and execute works in a manner that protects:

• Safety
• Technical integrity
• Quality
• Schedule certainty
• Cost discipline
• Authority compliance
• Client reputation

This role does not perform contractors works, engineering or design directly; it governs site and engineering coordination, validates technical readiness, drives closure of design and field issues, and intervenes decisively where engineering gaps or execution misalignment place project outcomes at risk.

The role must ensure that package engineering and delivery are managed in accordance with Gold Standard properly planned, technically coordinated, evidence-based, clearly reported, and actively managed through execution and close-out.

2. Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

2.1 Client Engineering Governance

• Establish and maintain disciplined engineering coordination across assigned infrastructure packages in line with RUA governance requirements and client-side best practice.
• Ensure design deliverables, technical submissions, engineering queries, and execution documents are reviewed, tracked, and closed in a timely and structured manner as not to delay site work.
• Support approval, conditional approval, or rejection of engineering deliverables, technical proposals, method statements, and design-related submissions were required by the Client governance process.
• Ensure engineering activities are fully integrated with site and project controls, procurement, logistics, authority approvals, temporary works, quality, and construction planning.

2.2 Engineering Coordination & Package Readiness

• Lead client-side engineering coordination from design development through construction readiness, execution support, and close-out for assigned packages.
• Ensure that contractors and consultants are working to approved drawings, specifications, design assumptions, interfaces, and execution constraints.
• Maintain full visibility over engineering status, technical deliverables, design dependencies, pending approvals, and construction readiness milestones.
• Intervene early where incomplete engineering, unresolved technical issues, late design information, or weak package readiness threaten delivery outcomes.

2.3 Consultant & Contractor Oversight

• Hold design consultants and site supervision consultants accountable for timely technical responses, design coordination, review quality, and clear issue escalation.
• Ensure site supervision consultants and others as mobilized, are actively supporting the Client through disciplined verification of field conditions, design compliance, technical constraints, and construction issues.
• Hold contractors accountable for technical compliance, constructability planning, shop drawing quality, material submittals, method statement adequacy, and engineering close-out obligations.
• Challenge weak technical assumptions, incomplete submissions, poor sequencing logic, and any approach that transfers unmanaged engineering risk to the Client.

2.4 Design, Constructability & Interface Management

• Lead technical coordination across interfaces involving:
• Civil and Infrastructure Design Teams
• Utilities
• Temporary Works
• Enabling Works
• Geotechnical Inputs
• Survey Information
• Site Logistics and Access
• Permits and Authorities
• Internal RUA Stakeholders
• Ensure design intent, field realities, and contractor execution strategies are aligned.
• Drive closure of design clashes, interface gaps, missing information, and unresolved constructability issues.
• Ensure package engineering supports safe, practical, and efficient construction sequencing.

2.5 Technical Assurance, Quality & Compliance

• Ensure all assigned works are executed in compliance with:
• Client Technical Requirements
• Approved Drawings And Specifications
• Quality Requirements
• HSE Obligations
• Saudi Regulatory Frameworks
• Authority and Permit Conditions
• Intervene immediately where contractor or consultant activities create unacceptable technical, quality, or compliance risk.
• Ensure inspections, technical approvals, NCR closure, material compliance, and handover requirements are being properly tracked and managed.

2.6 Program, Controls & Reporting

• Ensure engineering status, technical risks, and package readiness are fully embedded within the project controls and reporting framework.
• Maintain executive-level visibility over:
• Engineering Progress
• Technical Approvals
• Design Deliverables
• Pending Decisions
• Unresolved Interfaces
• Constructability Issues
• Package Readiness Risks
• Required Interventions
• Provide project leadership with:
• Clear Fact-Based Advice
• Technical Options
• Consequence Analysis
• Recommended Actions
• Escalate early and clearly no surprises.

2.7 Risk, Recovery & Delivery Assurance

• Maintain active oversight of package engineering risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and constraints.
• Ensure technical recovery plans are prepared, challenged, agreed, and implemented where engineering deliverables or approvals fall behind plan.
• Drive disciplined action tracking with clear owners, due dates, and follow-up until closure.
• Support change, claims, and commercial management by ensuring engineering records, technical decisions, field conditions, and interface impacts are contemporaneously maintained.

3. Mandatory Qualifications & Experience

Education

• Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline, depending on package requirements.
• Master's degree in engineering or project management is preferred.

Mandatory Experience (Non-Negotiable)

• Minimum 12–15 years experience in engineering, package delivery, or technical coordination roles on major infrastructure, enabling works, civil works, or complex multi-package developments.
• Proven experience in a Client, Developer, PMC, EPCM, or major program oversight role with direct responsibility for engineering coordination, technical assurance, and package readiness.
• Demonstrated experience managing consultants, contractors, technical interfaces, and engineering deliverables across active construction work fronts.
• Strong track record in technical delivery oversight covering design coordination, constructability, engineering approvals, field support, quality assurance, and close-out.
• Experience in Saudi Arabia or GCC on large-scale infrastructure or mixed-use developments is strongly preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience working in Mecca or on projects with significant authority, access, stakeholder, religious, or public interface constraints.
• Exposure to major program governance environments comparable to RUA, AECOM, Bechtel, Parsons, Jacobs, or equivalent.
• Experience working in a client-led delivery model supported by site supervision consultants and multiple contractors.
• Familiarity with infrastructure packages such as enabling works, demolition, utilities, surveys, geotechnical works, temporary works, and site preparation.

4. Core Competencies

Technical Leadership

Understands that project engineering on a major infrastructure program is not limited to design review; it is a critical delivery function that directly influences quality, constructability, schedule, cost, safety, and execution readiness.

Authority & Gravitas

Able to challenge consultant and contractor leadership credibly, clearly, and decisively where engineering quality, responsiveness, or technical coordination are unacceptable.

Governance & Controls Discipline

Maintains rigorous control over design status, technical issues, approvals, action tracking, and escalation, and understands that client-side engineering leadership requires structure, evidence, and discipline.

Interface Coordination

Able to manage multiple technical and delivery interfaces simultaneously without losing control of package priorities, field realities, or program obligations.

Clarity Under Pressure

Makes sound, defensible decisions in fast-moving site conditions and escalates before technical issues become program, commercial, or reputational problems.

5. Authority & Decision Rights

The Lead Project Engineer (Client Side) is authorized to:

• Direct client-side engineering coordination and intervention across assigned packages.
• Require consultants and contractors to provide updated technical submissions, design clarifications, corrective actions, and recovery plans.
• Challenge, reject, or require revision of weak engineering deliverables, incomplete submissions, unsupported technical assumptions, or unacceptable execution approaches.
• Escalate directly to senior infrastructure leadership on matters affecting safety, technical integrity, quality, schedule, authority compliance, or client reputation.
• Require re-coordination, redesign, additional review, or corrective intervention where consultant or contractor performance exposes the Client to unacceptable engineering risk.

6. Performance Measures

Performance will be measured against:

• Safe, compliant, and technically robust delivery of assigned packages
• Achievement of package engineering milestones and execution readiness commitments
• Early identification and mitigation of technical risks, design gaps, and interface constraints
• Effectiveness of consultant and contractor technical performance management
• Accuracy, clarity, and timeliness of engineering reporting and issue escalation
• Quality of coordination across design, site, approvals, and construction interfaces
• Positive delivery outcomes without avoidable surprises to leadership

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