Transportation Guidelines Lead - Standards and SOPs

Transportation Guidelines Lead
- Standards and SOPs Job Snapshot Role:
Transportation Guidelines Lead
- Standards and SOPs

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad Function:
Writing/Editing

Experience:

15-20 years Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Transportation Guidelines Lead
- Standards and SOPs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Transportation-Trucking-Railroad opportunity with Parsons Corporation focused on developing the standards, procedures, operational frameworks, manuals, and SOPs that govern transportation planning, design, traffic management, ITS, construction interfaces, and day-to-day operations. The role is hiring an experienced transportation documentation leader who can translate strategic objectives and complex technical requirements into clear, structured, practical guidance for internal teams, consultants, contractors, O&M providers, operators, and partner agencies.

Job Details Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad Function:
Writing/Editing Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time

Role Context The Transportation Guidelines Lead will own the documentation framework that supports consistent technical and operational decision-making across a major transportation program. The role connects policy, engineering, operations, ITS, safety, traffic control, maintenance, and external stakeholder requirements into a coherent system of standards and procedures. By establishing clear documentation hierarchies, controlled revisions, practical workflows, and implementation-ready SOPs, the position will help reduce ambiguity, improve coordination, support safer operations, and strengthen consistency across participating organizations.

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and workplan for developing, harmonizing, maintaining, and updating transportation standards, guidelines, procedures, manuals, and operating frameworks.
• Coordinate preparation of documentation covering traffic management, traffic signals, Traffic Control Center operations, incident management, ITS, congestion management, parking, construction zones, freight operations, enforcement support, and multimodal transport.
• Translate strategic policy, concepts of operations, engineering requirements, and system needs into practical standards, SOPs, playbooks, checklists, templates, and reference materials.
• Establish a structured documentation hierarchy with clear naming conventions, document relationships, cross-references, versioning, and controlled approval processes.
• Define how planners, designers, operators, inspectors, field crews, consultants, contractors, and O&M providers should use and apply approved documentation.
• Facilitate workshops with transportation agency departments, government stakeholders, service providers, and technical specialists to capture requirements and resolve conflicting practices.
• Develop clear interface requirements between the Client organization and external parties including Consultants, Contractors, O&M providers, emergency services, and neighboring agencies.
• Define roles, responsibilities, approval workflows, submittal requirements, coordination procedures, and performance expectations within operating frameworks.
• Ensure standards align with international good practice, local regulations, project requirements, safety objectives, resilience, sustainability, and customer experience.
• Work closely with traffic engineering, ITS, safety, multimodal, analytics, and Traffic Control Center specialists to integrate technical requirements into coordinated guidance.
• Develop SOPs and operational playbooks for normal operations, planned events, roadworks, maintenance activities, emergencies, severe weather, and unusual operating conditions.
• Define clear operational triggers, decision points, responsibilities, escalation routes, and communication flows within procedures.
• Establish formal review and revision mechanisms for transportation documentation, including approval authorities, revision triggers,…