Senior Structural Engineer - Rail Structures
Posted date [2026-09-28]
(ID: 52631)
Job Description and Requirements
Senior Structural Engineer - Rail StructuresJob Snapshot
Role: Senior Structural Engineer
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Structural
Experience: Minimum 10 years
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview
Parsons is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to lead structural engineering reviews for feasibility studies and preliminary detailed engineering associated with a major rail project. The role covers rail infrastructure, at-ground structures, and stations, with responsibility for leading structural engineers and inspectors while monitoring the quality and schedule of technical deliverables.
Reporting to the Lead Civil Design Manager, the Senior Structural Engineer will act as a structural systems subject matter expert and provide technical leadership across design review, constructability, quality assurance, construction support, and multidisciplinary coordination. The position requires extensive heavy civil structural engineering experience and the ability to manage complex transportation structures throughout design
and construction.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Structural
Salary: Not disclosed
Gender: No Preference
Candidate Nationality: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: On-site
Structural Engineering Leadership
- Represent the design division on structural engineering matters for the major rail project.
- Lead and manage the structural engineering team.
- Assign technical tasks and responsibilities to structural engineers and inspectors.
- Monitor the schedule and quality of structural engineering deliverables.
- Implement structural engineering practices, procedures, and applicable standards across the program.
- Maintain consistency in structural engineering practices throughout project delivery.
- Ensure team members comply with applicable engineering standards, codes, and procedures.
- Maintain responsibility for structural engineering integrity.
- Develop team capabilities and encourage continued technical development.
- Operate effectively as both a technical lead and team member as project requirements evolve.
Design Review and Technical Assurance
- Lead internal and external coordination for structural design reviews.
- Review design drawings and specifications at required project milestone checkpoints.
- Review shop drawings and construction-phase submittals when specific structural engineering assistance is required.
- Assess structural designs for technical compliance and engineering integrity.
- Perform constructability and maintainability reviews of structural systems.
- Consider relevant energy performance requirements during technical reviews.
- Review smaller supplier drawing packages and defined portions of larger supplier submissions.
- Assist with technical bid analyses.
- Provide structural engineering input to other discipline leads as required.
Quality Management
The Senior Structural Engineer will maintain quality standards across structural engineering calculations, designs, drawings, plans, estimates, reports, and other technical outputs.
- Maintain quality control across structural engineering deliverables.
- Develop and implement structural QA and QC procedures.
- Enforce established quality requirements across the program.
- Verify that quality control activities performed by others are correctly implemented.
- Identify technical or quality issues requiring corrective action.
- Maintain consistent engineering standards throughout structural design and review activities.
Rail and Heavy Civil Structures
The role requires comprehensive knowledge of heavy civil structural engineering and a clear understanding of how structural systems integrate with the wider rail project. Technical responsibilities will include design and detailing considerations as well as analysis, inspection, construction, and maintenance requirements for transportation structures.
The Senior Structural Engineer will support feasibility and preliminary detailed engineering for rail-related structures and stations while coordinating structural requirements with the wider civil, architectural, systems, and construction disciplines.
Technical Reporting and Coordination
- Prepare detailed structural engineering reports.
- Confer with project and program managers on technical matters as required.
- Provide structural engineering input to multidisciplinary design activities.
- Coordinate technical interfaces affecting structural systems.
- Communicate structural requirements clearly to engineering and construction teams.
- Provide technical support when construction-phase issues require specialist structural input.
- Maintain effective communication with Client and project stakeholders.
Site and Construction Support
- Visit project sites to collect structural engineering information.
- Review site conditions relevant to structural design and construction.
- Evaluate construction contractor performance from a structural engineering perspective.
- Support resolution of structural issues encountered during construction.
- Compare field conditions and construction activities with applicable design requirements.
- Provide technical input to improve constructability and maintainability where required.
What Required Skills You\'ll Bring
- Bachelor\'s degree in Construction, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of demonstrable experience in the design and construction of heavy civil engineering projects.
- Recent experience leading a team in project delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical lead and as a multidisciplinary team member.
- Comprehensive knowledge of heavy civil structural engineering design and construction.
- In-depth understanding of how structural engineering integrates with complete project delivery.
- Demonstrated capability in the design and detailing of complex transportation structures.
- Knowledge of structural analysis, inspection, and maintenance requirements for heavy civil structures.
- Experience with structural engineering software including SACS, Strucad, Ansys, Abaqus, Inventor, Nastran with Femap, and SAP 2000.
- Ability to develop and strengthen team member capabilities.
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving capability.
- Effective decision-making skills.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong verbal, written, presentation, and Client management capabilities.
What Desired Skills You\'ll Bring
- Chartered membership of IStructE, ICE, or an equivalent professional institution.
- Experience in the design and construction of rail, metro, or related transportation projects.
- Previous professional experience within the GCC.
Role Impact
The Senior Structural Engineer will provide the technical leadership needed to maintain structural integrity, quality, constructability, and consistency across a major rail development. By leading structural reviews, coordinating multidisciplinary interfaces, supporting construction activities, and enforcing engineering standards, the role will contribute directly to the reliable delivery of complex rail structures and stations.
About Parsons
Parsons brings multidisciplinary expertise to major rail, transportation, infrastructure, and heavy civil engineering programs. Its teams work across structural and civil engineering, design management, construction, project controls, and program delivery to support complex transportation infrastructure from engineering development through construction.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Structural
Salary: Not disclosed
Gender: No Preference
Candidate Nationality: Not specified
Job Type: Full Time
Work Arrangement: On-site
Structural Engineering Leadership
- Represent the design division on structural engineering matters for the major rail project.
- Lead and manage the structural engineering team.
- Assign technical tasks and responsibilities to structural engineers and inspectors.
- Monitor the schedule and quality of structural engineering deliverables.
- Implement structural engineering practices, procedures, and applicable standards across the program.
- Maintain consistency in structural engineering practices throughout project delivery.
- Ensure team members comply with applicable engineering standards, codes, and procedures.
- Maintain responsibility for structural engineering integrity.
- Develop team capabilities and encourage continued technical development.
- Operate effectively as both a technical lead and team member as project requirements evolve.
Design Review and Technical Assurance
- Lead internal and external coordination for structural design reviews.
- Review design drawings and specifications at required project milestone checkpoints.
- Review shop drawings and construction-phase submittals when specific structural engineering assistance is required.
- Assess structural designs for technical compliance and engineering integrity.
- Perform constructability and maintainability reviews of structural systems.
- Consider relevant energy performance requirements during technical reviews.
- Review smaller supplier drawing packages and defined portions of larger supplier submissions.
- Assist with technical bid analyses.
- Provide structural engineering input to other discipline leads as required.
Quality Management
The Senior Structural Engineer will maintain quality standards across structural engineering calculations, designs, drawings, plans, estimates, reports, and other technical outputs.
- Maintain quality control across structural engineering deliverables.
- Develop and implement structural QA and QC procedures.
- Enforce established quality requirements across the program.
- Verify that quality control activities performed by others are correctly implemented.
- Identify technical or quality issues requiring corrective action.
- Maintain consistent engineering standards throughout structural design and review activities.
Rail and Heavy Civil Structures
The role requires comprehensive knowledge of heavy civil structural engineering and a clear understanding of how structural systems integrate with the wider rail project. Technical responsibilities will include design and detailing considerations as well as analysis, inspection, construction, and maintenance requirements for transportation structures.
The Senior Structural Engineer will support feasibility and preliminary detailed engineering for rail-related structures and stations while coordinating structural requirements with the wider civil, architectural, systems, and construction disciplines.
Technical Reporting and Coordination
- Prepare detailed structural engineering reports.
- Confer with project and program managers on technical matters as required.
- Provide structural engineering input to multidisciplinary design activities.
- Coordinate technical interfaces affecting structural systems.
- Communicate structural requirements clearly to engineering and construction teams.
- Provide technical support when construction-phase issues require specialist structural input.
- Maintain effective communication with Client and project stakeholders.
Site and Construction Support
- Visit project sites to collect structural engineering information.
- Review site conditions relevant to structural design and construction.
- Evaluate construction contractor performance from a structural engineering perspective.
- Support resolution of structural issues encountered during construction.
- Compare field conditions and construction activities with applicable design requirements.
- Provide technical input to improve constructability and maintainability where required.
What Required Skills You\'ll Bring
- Bachelor\'s degree in Construction, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of demonstrable experience in the design and construction of heavy civil engineering projects.
- Recent experience leading a team in project delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical lead and as a multidisciplinary team member.
- Comprehensive knowledge of heavy civil structural engineering design and construction.
- In-depth understanding of how structural engineering integrates with complete project delivery.
- Demonstrated capability in the design and detailing of complex transportation structures.
- Knowledge of structural analysis, inspection, and maintenance requirements for heavy civil structures.
- Experience with structural engineering software including SACS, Strucad, Ansys, Abaqus, Inventor, Nastran with Femap, and SAP 2000.
- Ability to develop and strengthen team member capabilities.
- Strong analytical and technical problem-solving capability.
- Effective decision-making skills.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong verbal, written, presentation, and Client management capabilities.
What Desired Skills You\'ll Bring
- Chartered membership of IStructE, ICE, or an equivalent professional institution.
- Experience in the design and construction of rail, metro, or related transportation projects.
- Previous professional experience within the GCC.
Role Impact
The Senior Structural Engineer will provide the technical leadership needed to maintain structural integrity, quality, constructability, and consistency across a major rail development. By leading structural reviews, coordinating multidisciplinary interfaces, supporting construction activities, and enforcing engineering standards, the role will contribute directly to the reliable delivery of complex rail structures and stations.
About Parsons
Parsons brings multidisciplinary expertise to major rail, transportation, infrastructure, and heavy civil engineering programs. Its teams work across structural and civil engineering, design management, construction, project controls, and program delivery to support complex transportation infrastructure from engineering development through construction.
