Senior Highways Design SME - Roads

Role: Senior Highways Design SME
- Roads.
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Industry: Civil Engineering.
Function: Civil & Structural Engineering.
Experience: Minimum 15 years.
Job Type: Full-time.

Job Details: Country:
Saudi Arabia;
City:
Riyadh;
Industry: Civil Engineering;
Salary: 38,000‑52,000 (estimated based on similar jobs; final offer confirmed with employer). Gender: Any. Nationality:
Any.

Senior Highways Design SME
- Roads in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Civil Engineering opportunity for an accomplished highway engineering specialist with extensive experience in geometric design, pavement engineering, road drainage, junctions, interchanges, road safety, and multidisciplinary infrastructure coordination. Parsons Corporation is hiring a trusted technical authority to provide independent design assurance and strategic advice across major road projects and master‑planned developments. The role will support highway schemes from feasibility and traffic impact assessment through concept, preliminary, detailed, and issued‑for‑construction design.

The successful candidate will review complex technical submissions, guide consultants and contractors, support authority approvals, resolve design interfaces, and ensure that road infrastructure is safe, compliant, constructible, coordinated, and aligned with programme objectives.

• Act as the client's technical authority for highway and road design matters.
• Provide expert advice on highway engineering principles, design criteria, codes, and international best practices.
• Support the preparation, interpretation, and application of highway design standards and guidance.
• Review basis‑of‑design documents, typical sections, standard details, and technical criteria.
• Assess design departures, exceptions, and non‑standard proposals.
• Confirm that technical risks associated with departures are identified, assessed, documented, and managed.
• Review feasibility studies, traffic impact studies, and early‑stage highway planning submissions.
• Evaluate concept, preliminary, detailed, and issued‑for‑construction designs.
• Review horizontal and vertical road alignments.
• Assess road hierarchy, lane arrangements, cross‑sections, medians, shoulders, and verge requirements.
• Review junctions, intersections, roundabouts, and grade‑separated interchanges.
• Evaluate traffic signs, road markings, roadside furniture, and way finding requirements.
• Review flexible and rigid pavement design proposals.
• Assess road drainage, surface‑water management, culverts, channels, and stormwater interfaces.
• Review roadside safety features, barriers, clear zones, and hazard protection measures.
• Ensure compliance with Saudi Arabian standards and authority requirements.
• Apply relevant CFP, Saudi Highway Code, Ministry of Transport, MoMRA, Saudi Building Code, and approved local criteria.
• Confirm appropriate use of AASHTO, DMRB, and other approved international standards.
• Support safety‑in‑design reviews and road safety assessments.
• Participate in risk workshops and recommend practical mitigation measures.
• Resolve interfaces between highway design and transport planning.
• Coordinate highway layouts with utilities, drainage, structures, bridges, public realm, and landscape works.
• Review design compatibility with construction staging and temporary traffic management.
• Identify technical risks affecting safety, cost, constructability, approvals, or programme milestones.
• Develop and recommend technically sound mitigation measures.
• Facilitate integrated design solutions across multidisciplinary project teams.
• Support engagement with government authorities and approval agencies.
• Coordinate with plot developers, delivery partners, design consultants, and contractors.
• Attend technical meetings, design workshops, and coordination sessions.
• Help prepare responses to authority comments and design review queries.
• Provide technical challenge and oversight to highway consultants and contractors.
• Review consultant design methodologies, assumptions, models, and technical outputs.
• Attend construction sites when required to address design‑related queries.
• Verify that construction activities remain consistent with…