Senior Site Architect – High-End Finishes & Fit

Senior Site Architect – High-End Finishes & Fit-Out

Employment Type: Full-time | On-site

Required Experience: At least 5 years of relevant architectural site execution experience, including at least 3 years within Saudi Arabia.

Availability: Immediate joining required.

Applicants must currently be based in Saudi Arabia.

QWAED AL-EMMAR (QAE) is seeking a Senior Site Architect to lead the execution of architectural works, high-end finishes, and interior fit-out, with experience supervising façades and coordinating external works.

This site-based contracting role involves daily work planning, subcontractor supervision, quality inspections, multidisciplinary coordination, safety oversight, and handover.

Candidates must have proven site execution experience on large-scale hospitality, commercial, and residential projects.

Supervise execution and inspect workmanship across the following packages, as applicable to the project:

• Masonry, plastering, rendering, and substrate preparation.
• Gypsum board ceilings, partitions and linings, suspended ceilings, and decorative gypsum works.
• Marble, natural stone, porcelain, ceramic tiles, and mosaics.
• Timber flooring, parquet, vinyl, carpets, and epoxy flooring.
• Painting, putty, decorative coatings, wall coverings, and wallpaper.
• Architectural joinery and fixed furniture, including doors, wardrobes, wall panelling, counters, vanity units, and associated hardware.
• Glass, mirrors, aluminium works, decorative metalwork, and balustrades.
• Waterproofing to wet areas, roofs, and planters, together with joint sealing and interfaces with finishes.
• Glazed façades and curtain walls, including Stick and Unitized systems and Structural Silicone Glazing.
• Aluminium windows and doors, including thermally broken, hinged, and sliding systems, storefront glazing, glazed partitions, and skylights.
• External cladding, including mechanically fixed stone, metal panels, solid and composite aluminium panels, GRC/GFRC, louvers, and sunshades.
• Hardscape works, including paving, interlock, kerbs, walkways, plazas, external steps, ramps, and decking.
• Planters, pergolas, canopies, boundary walls, fences, gates, and outdoor furniture.
• Coordination of softscape, irrigation, external lighting, and drainage with specialist contractors.
• Architectural finishes and waterproofing interfaces for swimming pools and water features, where applicable.
• Installation coordination of Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E), sanitary fixtures and bathroom accessories, decorative lighting, curtains, and furnishings.

• Lead daily site activities, organise work fronts, and supervise subcontractors, foremen, and site teams.
• Plan work sequences and verify the availability of approved drawings, materials, manpower, access, and suitable site conditions.
• Review shop drawings, specifications, material approvals, and samples before execution; raise technical queries and resolve issues with the technical office and relevant disciplines.
• Coordinate architectural, structural, MEP, façade, and external works, ensuring concealed services and required inspections are completed before closure.
• Personally inspect materials and workmanship against approved requirements, checking dimensions, levels, alignment, joints, interfaces, finish consistency, and installation quality.
• Apply approved method statements and inspection and test plans; document defects and non-conformances and verify corrective work.
• Prepare material and work inspection requests, attend consultant inspections, and close observations.
• Supervise mock-ups and model rooms and maintain approved quality standards throughout subsequent execution.
• Follow up on façade installation, specialist drawings, material approvals, and…