Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP Design
Listed on 2026-08-06
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Engineering
Safety Engineer, Civil Engineering, Engineering Design & Technologists, Building Services Engineer
Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP Design Job Snapshot Role:
Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP Design
Location:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Engineering Function:
Mechanical Engineering
Experience:
Minimum 10 years Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Parsons is hiring a Fire and Life Safety Manager - MEP Design in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for a specialist leadership opportunity within the Engineering industry. The manager will support the Master Developer Unit by leading fire engineering, technical assurance, design review, and advisory services across citywide masterplans, infrastructure, and major asset developments. The role requires deep expertise in prescriptive and performance-based fire engineering.
The successful candidate will direct the development of fire strategies, smoke-management solutions, evacuation plans, firefighting access, emergency-response provisions, fire-water infrastructure, and integrated protection systems across design and construction. Job Details Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Engineering Function:
Mechanical Engineering Salary: SAR per month Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in Riyadh; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time Role Context Fire and life safety requirements affect master planning, building layouts, infrastructure capacity, emergency access, mobility interfaces, and operational readiness. When these requirements are addressed too late, they can create approval delays, design changes, and costly construction rework. This manager will provide the engineering authority needed to integrate fire safety from early planning through construction. Clear technical direction will help internal teams, design consultants, contractors, and authorities reach compliant and buildable solutions while protecting life safety and project milestones.
- Develop and assure fire and life safety strategies for buildings, infrastructure, public-realm areas, transport interfaces, and master planned developments.
- Serve as a senior engineering authority on code compliance, life-safety risk, design adequacy, and constructability.
- Review fire-engineering drawings, reports, calculations, specifications, and supporting design submissions.
- Challenge incomplete or unsuitable proposals and ensure that technical concerns are resolved early.
- Develop and assess solutions for complex, unusual, or performance-based designs.
- Review means of egress, occupant evacuation, compartmentation, and emergency-response strategies.
- Evaluate smoke-control and smoke-management arrangements.
- Assess firefighting access, fire-service facilities, and emergency-vehicle provisions.
- Advise project teams on Saudi Building Code and Saudi Civil Defence requirements.
- Guide the application of NFPA standards, International Building Code, International Fire Code, and recognized fire-engineering practices.
- Assess alternative solutions and confirm that supporting engineering evidence is suitable.
- Coordinate requirements with architecture, MEP, infrastructure, mobility, operations, and delivery teams.
- Ensure fire and life safety provisions are integrated into the design rather than addressed as late-stage comments.
- Support authority engagement, approval meetings, and third-party technical reviews.
- Prepare clear engineering positions and responses to regulator or reviewer comments.
- Defend compliant design intent using calculations, standards, and risk-based evidence.
- Review fire-detection, alarm, sprinkler, suppression, and emergency-control systems.
- Assess smoke-management equipment, fire-water networks, hydrants, pumps, and storage requirements.
- Review passive fire protection, fire resistance, compartmentation, and penetration-sealing provisions.
- Identify non-compliances, approval obstacles, coordination risks, and program threats.
- Recommend practical mitigation measures that protect safety, compliance, and delivery schedules.
- Lead technical workshops, peer reviews, and multidisciplinary design-coordination sessions.
- Record decisions, allocate actions, and monitor technical issues through closure.
- Develop program-wide fire and life…
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