Senior Structural Engineer

Want to engineer the extraordinary? Take on complex challenges and deliver high-performance structures as a Senior Structural Engineer with our team in Riyadh.

Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive. You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. All of Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy.

As a Senior Structural Engineer in our Riyadh office, you’ll help deliver bold, efficient, and sustainable designs that push boundaries and bring visionary projects to life. You’ll work across a range of high-profile developments - from cultural icons to complex commercial structures - applying advanced analysis and collaborative thinking to shape the built environment.

• Leading the design and delivery of building structures projects, ensuring technical quality and alignment with client and sustainability objectives.
• Applying advanced structural analysis and design skills using software such as ETABS, SAFE, SAP
  2000, RAM Concept, and Robot.
• Preparing design reports, technical specifications, and presentations.
• Coordinating with architects, MEP engineers, and other stakeholders to integrate structural solutions seamlessly within the overall design.
• Reviewing and supervising work by junior engineers and providing mentorship.
• Engaging in peer reviews and quality assurance processes to ensure high standards of technical delivery.

• A degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (Master’s level preferred).
• Chartered or working towards chartership with a recognized body (e.g., IStructE, ICE).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in structural engineering design within a consultancy environment.
• Proficiency in relevant design and analysis tools (ETABS, Revit, Rhino/Grasshopper, Tekla, etc.).
• A strong understanding of regional and international codes and standards.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to build strong client relationships.
• Passion for innovation, sustainability, and delivering elegant and efficient engineering solutions.
• Professional proficiency in English and Arabic.

• Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Buro Happold values individuals' flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.