Job description
1. Structural Engineering Discipline Leadership
• Lead the structural engineering team across assigned projects.
• Allocate structural engineering activities to engineers, senior engineers, and structural designers based on project priorities, workload, and competence.
• Provide technical direction, mentoring, and support to structural engineering team members.
• Review workload and resource requirements and report requirements to management.
• Monitor structural design productivity, deliverable progress, and project milestones.
• Ensure consistent structural design standards, engineering principles, and technical practices are implemented across projects.
• Support recruitment, technical interviews, and assessment of structural engineering candidates when required.
• Support professional development and competency improvement within the structural engineering team.
• Establish and maintain high standards of structural engineering quality, safety, and documentation.
• Lead technical discussions and resolve complex structural engineering issues.
• Provide engineering guidance on structural systems, materials, analysis methodologies, and constructability.
2. Structural Design Management
Lead and oversee the development of structural engineering designs for buildings, infrastructure, and associated developments, including as applicable:
• Concept and feasibility studies.
• Structural system selection and optimization.
• Structural design criteria and basis of design.
• Preliminary structural design.
• Schematic structural design.
• Design development.
• Detailed structural design.
• Structural analysis and modelling.
• Foundation design.
• Superstructure design.
• Concrete and reinforced concrete structures.
• Structural steel structures.
• Composite structures where applicable.
• Post-tensioned structures where applicable.
• Masonry and other structural systems where applicable.
• Retaining walls and earth-retaining structures.
• Basement structures.
• Underground structures.
• Roof structures.
• Canopies and external structures.
• Temporary and permanent works interfaces where applicable.
• Structural strengthening and modification works where applicable.
• Seismic and wind design.
• Durability and robustness considerations.
• Structural fire-resistance requirements.
• Construction-stage structural considerations.
• Design for constructability, maintainability, and durability.
• Value engineering and structural optimization.
3. Structural Analysis and Design Development
Ensure appropriate development, analysis, checking, and technical review of:
• Structural analysis models.
• Structural calculations.
• Design calculations and design reports.
• Load assessments.
• Load combinations.
• Gravity load analysis.
• Lateral load analysis.
• Wind analysis and design.
• Seismic analysis and design.
• Stability analysis.
• Foundation analysis and design.
• Soil-structure interaction where applicable.
• Reinforced concrete design.
• Structural steel design.
• Connection design.
• Composite structural design where applicable.
• Retaining wall design.
• Basement and underground structure design.
• Structural framing plans.
• Foundation plans.
• Column layouts.
• Beam layouts.
• Slab layouts.
• Roof structural plans.
• Elevations and sections.
• Structural details.
• Reinforcement drawings.
• Reinforcement schedules.
• Steel fabrication and erection drawings where applicable.
• Structural specifications.
• Bills of Quantities.
• Tender documentation.
• Authority submission packages.
• Temporary works interfaces where applicable.
Ensure all structural documentation is coordinated, technically accurate, adequately checked, and suitable for the relevant project stage.
Essential
• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or equivalent from a recognized university.
• 12 15 years of relevant structural engineering design experience.
• Strong experience in structural design of buildings and infrastructure.
• Demonstrable experience leading structural engineering teams.
• Significant experience with multidisciplinary engineering consultancy or design organizations.
• Strong experience in concept, preliminary, schematic, detailed design, tender documentation, and construction support.
• Strong experience in structural analysis and design of reinforced concrete and/or structural steel systems.
• Experience with large-scale and complex projects.
• Experience coordinating structural design with architectural, MEP, civil, geotechnical, and other engineering disciplines.
• Experience with Saudi Arabian projects is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of structural design codes and engineering standards.
• Demonstrable experience in technical review, checking, and design assurance.
Professional Registration
• Valid or eligible professional registration with the Saudi Council of Engineers.
• Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer, or equivalent international professional registration is advantageous.
• Membership of recognized professional engineering institutions is advantageous.
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