Senior Roads Engineer - GCC National

Job description / Role

Overview

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration through conceptualization to realization of planning, design, or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years, we've led with vision, contributing to many of the world's most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences, and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.

We invite you to join us. Why?

When you join KEO, you'll discover more than just a job - you'll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development. This is within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counseling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun runs, in-house sports teams, and beach clean-ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits, you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, and employee referral rewards.

Responsibilities

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Roads Engineer (GCC National) to join our award-winning team based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

We envisage success in this role to include:

• Leading the design, analysis, and development of road and highway projects, ensuring compliance with local and international standards.
• Supervising and managing the preparation of detailed design documents, including alignment, grading, drainage, and pavement design.
• Staying updated on the latest trends and innovations in road engineering and applying them to improve project delivery.
• Developing and preparing design drawings, inputs into reports, design reports, and technical and materials specifications.
• Resolving simple design problems using both manual and computer methods with minimal supervision.
• Assisting in obtaining design approval from authorities/agencies.
• Maintaining quality control and quality standards in all personal work output, checking computations, designs, drawings, plans, and estimates prepared for comprehensiveness, technical accuracy, and sound application of engineering principles and standards.
• Using initiative to ensure that work processes, procedures, and systems are effective and efficient.
• Communicating effectively at all levels to support collaborative work practices and achievement of team goals.
• Contributing to the effective functioning of the team by identifying with and participating in the attainment of team objectives, communicating, and sharing knowledge.
• Maintaining client focus on the delivery of services of the team.
• Preparing transportation design programs based on detailed work breakdown structures for projects.
• Providing feedback and day-to-day coaching to junior staff within the discipline.

Qualifications

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include a Bachelor's degree in Transportation or Civil Engineering with at least 8 years of experience in a consultancy environment, of which at least 4 were spent working on GCC projects.

You will be a member of a transportation professional institution and working towards professional accreditation of either IEng, CEng, or P.E. Proficiency in AutoCAD and Autodesk Civil 3D, as well as the ability to use Navisworks and Infraworks, will be preferable.

You will have demonstrated experience in preparing a wide range of Highways Engineering Schemes in KSA as well as across the Gulf Region.

KEO's performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety, and our people. We embrace diversity and recognize its contribution to client success wherever we work.

We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.

About the Company

KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 57 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.

As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.