DLP and Snagging Engineer - Asset Handover

Role: DLP and Snagging Engineer

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction

Function:
Building-Construction Inspection

Experience:

Minimum 4 years

Job Type: Full Time

Parsons is seeking a Saudi National DLP and Snagging Engineer in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to support the technical management, coordination, tracking, and close-out of defects and Defects Liability Period obligations across assigned assets. The role works closely with project teams, consultants, contractors, service providers, facilities management teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure defects are properly identified, assessed, prioritized, rectified, documented, and formally closed.

The position supports asset handover and operational readiness, helping ensure outstanding defects do not compromise safety, statutory compliance, asset reliability, maintainability, service continuity, accessibility, or the user and guest experience.

Country:
Saudi Arabia

City:
Riyadh

Industry: Construction

Function:
Building-Construction Inspection

Salary:
Not disclosed

Gender: No Preference

Candidate Nationality:
Saudi National

Job Type: Full Time

Work Arrangement:
On-site

• Provide day-to-day engineering support for DLP and snagging activities across assigned assets.
• Identify and technically assess defects, incomplete works, and operational readiness issues and ensure they are properly logged, prioritized, assigned, and progressed toward closure.
• Conduct and participate in site inspections, joint walkthroughs, snagging reviews, defect verification visits, and close-out validation.
• Coordinate inspections and rectification activities with project teams, consultants, contractors, service providers, and operations stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate defect and snag registers with clear engineering descriptions, ownership, priorities, target dates, status updates, supporting evidence, escalation routes, and formal close-out records.
• Monitor contractor performance against DLP obligations, including rectification progress, recurring defects, response times, repair quality, warranty matters, and outstanding liabilities.
• Escalate significant technical or performance concerns to the DLP and Snagging Manager.
• Support asset handover by reviewing O and M manuals, asset registers, warranties, test records, training records, permits, compliance documentation, and defect close-out evidence.
• Verify that relevant technical and handover requirements have been addressed before assets are accepted into operations.
• Use CAFM and CMMS systems, snagging platforms, dashboards, and reporting tools to control defect information and monitor close-out performance.
• Assess defects from an engineering and operational risk perspective, considering safety, statutory compliance, reliability, accessibility, maintainability, service continuity, and public or guest impacts.
• Support disciplined technical close-out through evidence-based verification and accurate reporting.

The DLP and Snagging Engineer will support the transition of completed assets into steady-state operations. This includes completion inspections, technical acceptance reviews, warranty tracking, handover documentation, operational readiness checks, and verification that identified defects have been appropriately rectified. The role requires an understanding of hard services, including MEP and building systems, together with interfaces involving soft services, roads, utilities, landscaping, public realm, and other infrastructure components.

• Coordinate cross-functional defect resolution with hard services, soft services, roads, landscaping, utilities, mobility, public realm, security, events, FM service partners, and project delivery teams.
• Support contractor and service-provider governance relating to warranties, rectification responsibilities, SLA and KPI performance, and defect close-out.
• Participate in readiness meetings, governance reviews, contractor performance discussions, risk reporting, and technical coordination sessions.
• Contribute to commercial discussions involving CAPEX and OPEX clarification, contractual liabilities, and defect-related cost impacts.
• Support lessons learned and continuous improvement initiatives related to handover quality, recurring defects, warranty performance, and DLP management.
• Provide technical guidance to junior team members and site-based resources.