Role summary
We are seeking a high-calibre Technical Design Director to spearhead heavy civil infrastructure engineering, site development, and technical design integration for a major program in Riyadh. In this senior leadership role, you will oversee a D&B contractor responsible for developing the design from 35% to IFC, ensuring alignment to specification and schedule.
Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee comprehensive civil engineering design strategy, technical reviews, and infrastructure assurance across basement parking, podium slabs, mid-rise office blocks and structural steel canopies
- Manage Lead Design Consultants and specialist civil/geotechnical sub-consultants, ensuring design packages match budget, timeline, and quality parameters
- Act as primary technical liaison to senior MOD clients and municipal/local authorities
- Drive flawless coordination across civil, structural, geotechnical, MEP, and specialized security/defense infrastructure to eliminate design bottlenecks and spatial/utility clashes
- Conduct rigorous buildability and value engineering reviews for heavy civil works, drainage, roads, and structural interfaces
- Ensure all designs strictly adhere to Saudi Building Codes, civil defense protocols, and global defense facility benchmarks
- Oversee civil design workflows within BIM-led environment (Civil 3D/Revit), ensuring precise geospatial data integration, clear change management protocols, and comprehensive technical documentation
- Manage site supervision team to establish appropriate templates and processes for tracking site activities, key project quantities and record keeping
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering (Master's degree or professional chartership strongly preferred)
- Minimum 20 years of progressive civil engineering and design management experience with proven track record on mega-infrastructure projects or government/defense facilities in GCC region (Saudi Arabia experience highly preferred)
- Strong mastery of civil design integration, geotechnics, site grading, utility networks, heavy structural buildability, value engineering, and high-security facility infrastructure protocols
- Exceptional ability to manage large, multidisciplinary technical teams, negotiate technical solutions with clients, and work under fast-track delivery constraints
- Mix of Consultant and Main Contractor Experience would be key advantage
Requirements
- Mandatory membership or eligibility for membership in Saudi Council of Engineers
- Professional chartership such as ICE, P.E., or equivalent is major advantage
Education
Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering
Experience
Minimum 20 years of progressive civil engineering and design management experience
Skills
- Civil design integration
- Geotechnics
- Site grading
- Utility networks
- Heavy structural buildability
- Value engineering
- High-security facility infrastructure protocols
- Civil 3D/Revit
- BIM
- Project management
- Technical negotiation
- Team management
Education · Experience · Type
Bachelor'sRequires 20+ yearsSalary not stated