Senior Handover Engineer - Commissioning

Senior Handover Engineer
- Commissioning

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Industry: Construction | Function:
Engineering |

Experience:

Minimum 10 years | Job Type: Full‑time

Senior Handover Engineer
- Commissioning role at Parsons Corporation supports PMO‑level governance for large‑scale infrastructure programs in Riyadh. Responsibilities include leading testing, commissioning, close‑out, operational readiness, and asset handover to ensure projects reach Substantial Completion and Final Handover.

• Lead development and implementation of handover and commissioning strategies, procedures, templates, and checklists aligned with PMO standards.
• Oversee testing and commissioning activities for multidisciplinary infrastructure systems, ensuring functionality, integration, compliance, and readiness for acceptance.
• Review and validate handover deliverables including as‑built drawings, O&M manuals, training documentation, warranties, guarantees, spare parts records, testing reports, commissioning reports, asset registers, and GIS submissions.
• Manage and track Substantial Completion requirements, including construction acceptance tests, closed snag lists, road safety audits, operational readiness evidence, and approval‑gated deliverables.
• Coordinate with municipalities, utility providers, traffic control entities, receiving authorities, PMCMs, contractors, consultants, and client representatives to secure approvals, permits, clearances, and handover confirmations.
• Ensure interfaces between infrastructure systems are properly managed (power supply to ITS, drainage integration, traffic signal operations, MEP systems, utilities, tunnels, roads).
• Review contractor submissions such as method statements, testing and commissioning plans, inspection and test plans, close‑out documentation, asset data, and handover packages.
• Monitor contractor and PMCM performance, identify delays or gaps, and enforce corrective actions.
• Support definition and implementation of Defect Liability Period strategies, handover conditions, acceptance requirements, and close‑out obligations.
• Advise PMO leadership on handover risks, partial completions, readiness gaps, pending approvals, documentation quality, and operational constraints.
• Provide technical guidance on commissioning and handover matters across civil, mechanical, electrical, utility, ITS, road, tunnel, landscape, and infrastructure disciplines.
• Review testing records, commissioning evidence, system integration results, operational readiness documentation, and authority comments.
• Support site visits across Riyadh to verify asset readiness, physical completion, snag status, and commissioning progress.
• Maintain handover trackers, risk registers, issue logs, approval registers, documentation matrices, and close‑out dashboards.
• Coordinate with document control teams to ensure submissions are properly logged, reviewed, approved, and available for final acceptance.
• Support digital handover requirements through accurate asset data, GIS records, system documentation, and structured close‑out information.
• Identify interface risks, incomplete documentation, unresolved snags, missing test evidence, delayed stakeholder approvals, and operational readiness concerns.
• Promote a disciplined handover culture focused on safety, quality, compliance, accountability, and smooth transition to operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Member of the Saudi Council of Engineers.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience, including significant exposure to infrastructure projects, testing, commissioning, construction close‑out, and asset handover phases.
• Experience on roads, tunnels, utilities, MEP systems, power systems, ITS, structures, landscape, or multidisciplinary infrastructure programs.
• Background in PMO, PMC, PMCM, client-side, or large mega project environments.
• Strong knowledge of testing and commissioning processes across multidisciplinary infrastructure systems.
• Proven experience in handover management, close‑out documentation, Substantial Completion requirements, Final Handover processes, and stakeholder…