Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP Design
Posted date [2026-08-02]
(ID: 48904)
Job Description and Requirements
Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP DesignJob Snapshot
Role: Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP Design
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Engineering
Function: Mechanical Engineering
Experience: Minimum 10 years
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Parsons is hiring a Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP Design in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a specialist leadership opportunity within the Engineering industry. The manager will support the Master Developer Unit by leading fire engineering, technical assurance, design review, and advisory services across citywide masterplans, infrastructure, and major asset developments.
The role requires deep expertise in prescriptive and performance-based fire engineering. The successful candidate will direct the development of fire strategies, smoke-management solutions, evacuation plans, firefighting access, emergency-response provisions, fire-water infrastructure, and integrated protection systems across design and construction.
Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Engineering
Function: Mechanical Engineering
Salary: 28000-45000 SAR per month
Estimated salary
range based on similar jobs in Riyadh; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
Fire and life safety requirements affect masterplanning, building layouts, infrastructure capacity, emergency access, mobility interfaces, and operational readiness. When these requirements are addressed too late, they can create approval delays, design changes, and costly construction rework.
This manager will provide the engineering authority needed to integrate fire safety from early planning through construction. Clear technical direction will help internal teams, design consultants, contractors, and authorities reach compliant and buildable solutions while protecting life safety and project milestones.
Key Responsibilities
The manager will lead technical assurance for fire and life safety design across complex development packages.
* Develop and assure fire and life safety strategies for buildings, infrastructure, public-realm areas, transport interfaces, and masterplanned developments.
* Serve as a senior engineering authority on code compliance, life-safety risk, design adequacy, and constructability.
* Review fire-engineering drawings, reports, calculations, specifications, and supporting design submissions.
* Challenge incomplete or unsuitable proposals and ensure that technical concerns are resolved early.
* Develop and assess solutions for complex, unusual, or performance-based designs.
* Review means of egress, occupant evacuation, compartmentation, and emergency-response strategies.
* Evaluate smoke-control and smoke-management arrangements.
* Assess firefighting access, fire-service facilities, and emergency-vehicle provisions.
* Advise project teams on Saudi Building Code and Saudi Civil Defence requirements.
* Guide the application of NFPA standards, International Building Code, International Fire Code, and recognized fire-engineering practices.
* Assess alternative solutions and confirm that supporting engineering evidence is suitable.
* Coordinate requirements with architecture, MEP, infrastructure, mobility, operations, and delivery teams.
* Ensure fire and life safety provisions are integrated into the design rather than addressed as late-stage comments.
* Support authority engagement, approval meetings, and third-party technical reviews.
* Prepare clear engineering positions and responses to regulator or reviewer comments.
* Defend compliant design intent using calculations, standards, and risk-based evidence.
* Review fire-detection, alarm, sprinkler, suppression, and emergency-control systems.
* Assess smoke-management equipment, fire-water networks, hydrants, pumps, and storage requirements.
* Review passive fire protection, fire resistance, compartmentation, and penetration-sealing provisions.
* Identify non-compliances, approval obstacles, coordination risks, and program threats.
* Recommend practical mitigation measures that protect safety, compliance, and delivery schedules.
* Lead technical workshops, peer reviews, and multidisciplinary design-coordination sessions.
* Record decisions, allocate actions, and monitor technical issues through closure.
* Develop program-wide fire and life safety standards, guidelines, review procedures, and templates.
* Capture lessons learned and apply them to subsequent designs and project packages.
* Mentor junior engineers and support consistent technical judgement across the wider team.
* Perform quality reviews of critical fire-engineering deliverables.
Ideal Profile
The preferred candidate is an experienced fire engineer capable of evaluating complex development strategies and providing authoritative guidance to technical teams and approval bodies.
* Bachelor\'s or Master\'s degree in Fire Engineering is preferred.
* A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline may also be considered.
* Minimum ten years of fire and life safety engineering and design experience.
* Background supporting major mixed-use, infrastructure, hospitality, entertainment, transportation, or giga-project developments.
* Experience covering masterplanning, concept design, schematic design, detailed design, and construction support.
* Strong expertise in egress, smoke management, firefighting access, fire-water infrastructure, alarms, suppression, and passive protection.
* Practical experience developing performance-based fire-engineering solutions.
* Knowledge of smoke modeling, evacuation analysis, and alternative code-compliance methods.
* Detailed understanding of Saudi Building Code and Saudi Civil Defence requirements.
* Strong working knowledge of NFPA, International Building Code, and International Fire Code requirements.
* Experience coordinating lead design consultants, specialist fire consultants, contractors, authorities, and multidisciplinary teams.
* Ability to review and challenge technically complex or high-profile design proposals.
* Excellent report-writing, presentation, stakeholder-management, and verbal communication skills.
* Previous GCC or giga-project experience is highly desirable.
* Membership of the Institution of Fire Engineers or an equivalent professional body is advantageous.
* Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional registration is preferred.
* Certified Fire Protection Specialist or relevant NFPA certification would be beneficial.
* Performance-based fire engineering, CFD modeling, or smoke-control training is desirable.
* PMP or an equivalent project-management certification would support multidisciplinary coordination duties.
Skills Set
* Fire and life safety engineering
* Performance-based fire design
* Prescriptive code compliance
* Fire-strategy development
* Means-of-egress analysis
* Evacuation modeling
* Smoke-control systems
* CFD smoke modeling
* Firefighting access
* Emergency-response planning
* Fire-water infrastructure
* Fire pumps and hydrants
* Fire-detection systems
* Fire-alarm systems
* Sprinkler and suppression systems
* Passive fire protection
* Fire compartmentation
* Saudi Building Code
* Saudi Civil Defence requirements
* NFPA standards
* International Building Code
* International Fire Code
* MEP design coordination
* Alternative-solution assessment
* Authority approvals
* Technical design assurance
* Fire-risk workshops
* Consultant design review
* Safe and buildable design
* Engineering-team mentorship
Why Join Us
This opportunity offers technical influence across an entire development program rather than a single building. The manager will shape fire and life safety decisions affecting masterplans, infrastructure networks, public spaces, transport connections, and high-profile assets.
The position provides a strong route toward fire-engineering director, technical-assurance, design-leadership, and development-advisory roles within Saudi Arabia\'s expanding Engineering market.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, design assurance, program-management, and project-delivery services for complex infrastructure and urban developments. Its multidisciplinary teams help clients integrate safety, functionality, regulatory compliance, and long-term operational performance.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
Fire and life safety requirements affect masterplanning, building layouts, infrastructure capacity, emergency access, mobility interfaces, and operational readiness. When these requirements are addressed too late, they can create approval delays, design changes, and costly construction rework.
This manager will provide the engineering authority needed to integrate fire safety from early planning through construction. Clear technical direction will help internal teams, design consultants, contractors, and authorities reach compliant and buildable solutions while protecting life safety and project milestones.
Key Responsibilities
The manager will lead technical assurance for fire and life safety design across complex development packages.
* Develop and assure fire and life safety strategies for buildings, infrastructure, public-realm areas, transport interfaces, and masterplanned developments.
* Serve as a senior engineering authority on code compliance, life-safety risk, design adequacy, and constructability.
* Review fire-engineering drawings, reports, calculations, specifications, and supporting design submissions.
* Challenge incomplete or unsuitable proposals and ensure that technical concerns are resolved early.
* Develop and assess solutions for complex, unusual, or performance-based designs.
* Review means of egress, occupant evacuation, compartmentation, and emergency-response strategies.
* Evaluate smoke-control and smoke-management arrangements.
* Assess firefighting access, fire-service facilities, and emergency-vehicle provisions.
* Advise project teams on Saudi Building Code and Saudi Civil Defence requirements.
* Guide the application of NFPA standards, International Building Code, International Fire Code, and recognized fire-engineering practices.
* Assess alternative solutions and confirm that supporting engineering evidence is suitable.
* Coordinate requirements with architecture, MEP, infrastructure, mobility, operations, and delivery teams.
* Ensure fire and life safety provisions are integrated into the design rather than addressed as late-stage comments.
* Support authority engagement, approval meetings, and third-party technical reviews.
* Prepare clear engineering positions and responses to regulator or reviewer comments.
* Defend compliant design intent using calculations, standards, and risk-based evidence.
* Review fire-detection, alarm, sprinkler, suppression, and emergency-control systems.
* Assess smoke-management equipment, fire-water networks, hydrants, pumps, and storage requirements.
* Review passive fire protection, fire resistance, compartmentation, and penetration-sealing provisions.
* Identify non-compliances, approval obstacles, coordination risks, and program threats.
* Recommend practical mitigation measures that protect safety, compliance, and delivery schedules.
* Lead technical workshops, peer reviews, and multidisciplinary design-coordination sessions.
* Record decisions, allocate actions, and monitor technical issues through closure.
* Develop program-wide fire and life safety standards, guidelines, review procedures, and templates.
* Capture lessons learned and apply them to subsequent designs and project packages.
* Mentor junior engineers and support consistent technical judgement across the wider team.
* Perform quality reviews of critical fire-engineering deliverables.
Ideal Profile
The preferred candidate is an experienced fire engineer capable of evaluating complex development strategies and providing authoritative guidance to technical teams and approval bodies.
* Bachelor\'s or Master\'s degree in Fire Engineering is preferred.
* A degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline may also be considered.
* Minimum ten years of fire and life safety engineering and design experience.
* Background supporting major mixed-use, infrastructure, hospitality, entertainment, transportation, or giga-project developments.
* Experience covering masterplanning, concept design, schematic design, detailed design, and construction support.
* Strong expertise in egress, smoke management, firefighting access, fire-water infrastructure, alarms, suppression, and passive protection.
* Practical experience developing performance-based fire-engineering solutions.
* Knowledge of smoke modeling, evacuation analysis, and alternative code-compliance methods.
* Detailed understanding of Saudi Building Code and Saudi Civil Defence requirements.
* Strong working knowledge of NFPA, International Building Code, and International Fire Code requirements.
* Experience coordinating lead design consultants, specialist fire consultants, contractors, authorities, and multidisciplinary teams.
* Ability to review and challenge technically complex or high-profile design proposals.
* Excellent report-writing, presentation, stakeholder-management, and verbal communication skills.
* Previous GCC or giga-project experience is highly desirable.
* Membership of the Institution of Fire Engineers or an equivalent professional body is advantageous.
* Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional registration is preferred.
* Certified Fire Protection Specialist or relevant NFPA certification would be beneficial.
* Performance-based fire engineering, CFD modeling, or smoke-control training is desirable.
* PMP or an equivalent project-management certification would support multidisciplinary coordination duties.
Skills Set
* Fire and life safety engineering
* Performance-based fire design
* Prescriptive code compliance
* Fire-strategy development
* Means-of-egress analysis
* Evacuation modeling
* Smoke-control systems
* CFD smoke modeling
* Firefighting access
* Emergency-response planning
* Fire-water infrastructure
* Fire pumps and hydrants
* Fire-detection systems
* Fire-alarm systems
* Sprinkler and suppression systems
* Passive fire protection
* Fire compartmentation
* Saudi Building Code
* Saudi Civil Defence requirements
* NFPA standards
* International Building Code
* International Fire Code
* MEP design coordination
* Alternative-solution assessment
* Authority approvals
* Technical design assurance
* Fire-risk workshops
* Consultant design review
* Safe and buildable design
* Engineering-team mentorship
Why Join Us
This opportunity offers technical influence across an entire development program rather than a single building. The manager will shape fire and life safety decisions affecting masterplans, infrastructure networks, public spaces, transport connections, and high-profile assets.
The position provides a strong route toward fire-engineering director, technical-assurance, design-leadership, and development-advisory roles within Saudi Arabia\'s expanding Engineering market.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, design assurance, program-management, and project-delivery services for complex infrastructure and urban developments. Its multidisciplinary teams help clients integrate safety, functionality, regulatory compliance, and long-term operational performance.
