Deputy Resident Engineer - Civil Construction

Job Snapshot

Role:
Deputy Resident Engineer
- Civil Construction

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Civil Engineering

Function:
Construction

Experience:

Minimum 8 years

Job Type: Full-time

Job Overview:
Deputy Resident Engineer
- Civil Construction in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Civil Engineering opportunity for a Saudi National with extensive experience in rail, metro, transit, and major infrastructure construction.

Country:
Saudi Arabia

City:
Riyadh

Industry: Civil Engineering

Function:
Construction

Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.

Gender: Any

Candidate Nationality:
Saudi Arabian

The Deputy Resident Engineer provides senior construction supervision across assigned areas of a major rail project, ensuring civil works and multidisciplinary interfaces progress safely, efficiently, and in accordance with approved designs. The position bridges contractor execution with engineering, inspection, quality, planning, procurement, and construction management teams, helping resolve technical problems while protecting programme milestones and compliance requirements. The role also provides first-level quality assurance oversight, ensuring materials, installations, inspections, testing, and construction records meet project standards before works progress to subsequent stages or final handover.

• Lead and coordinate engineers and inspectors working across civil, mechanical, electrical, and architectural disciplines.
• Supervise contractor activities within assigned rail and infrastructure construction areas.
• Monitor daily site progress against approved construction plans, milestones, and programme requirements.
• Develop discipline-specific construction schedules and coordinate sequencing with wider project activities.
• Provide progress assessments, schedule updates, and construction status information to the Construction Manager.
• Identify emerging delays or interface constraints and support implementation of corrective measures.
• Coordinate construction staging to maintain safe and efficient execution across multiple work fronts.

Material availability and compliance must be monitored closely to prevent disruption to construction activities.

• Track material procurement, delivery schedules, storage, and availability against upcoming construction requirements.
• Verify that materials delivered to site comply with approved specifications, submittals, quality requirements, and applicable standards.
• Coordinate with contractors and project teams where delayed or non-compliant materials could affect programme performance.
• Review documentation associated with material inspection and acceptance.
• Support timely resolution of material-related technical or quality issues.

Quality assurance will remain a core responsibility throughout construction.

• Maintain first-level quality assurance oversight of installation and construction works.
• Confirm that works are executed in accordance with approved drawings, specifications, method statements, and applicable standards.
• Ensure inspections and testing activities are scheduled, witnessed, recorded, and formally completed.
• Review construction materials testing associated with soil, concrete, grout, dewatering, and load testing activities.
• Coordinate with inspectors and quality personnel to resolve identified deficiencies.
• Ensure corrective works are completed satisfactorily before subsequent activities proceed.
• Monitor contractor compliance with approved inspection and testing requirements.
• Maintain awareness of recurring quality issues and elevate significant concerns where necessary.

Technical supervision will cover multidisciplinary construction interfaces.

• Review and interpret the latest approved design drawings, specifications, and construction documentation.
• Ensure contractors are working from current approved revisions.
• Coordinate with design engineering teams to resolve technical queries arising during construction.
• Provide practical engineering solutions to site challenges within assigned authority.
• Assess conflicts between civil works and mechanical, electrical, architectural, or transportation systems.
• Coordinate implementation of agreed technical solutions with contractors and project stakeholders.
• Support constructability reviews and site-based engineering decisions where field conditions differ from expected requirements.
• Monitor complex interfaces affecting stations, depots, fit‑out works, rail infrastructure, utilities, and supporting facilities where applicable.

Construction safety and risk management must remain integrated with site delivery.

• Work with construction management teams to identify safety, environmental, and operational risks.
• Promote safe construction methods and appropriate site behavior across assigned work areas.
• Monitor contractor compliance with site-specific safety requirements.
• Ensure planned construction activities consider access, staging, temporary conditions, and…