Civil & Architectural Site Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Take full responsibility for on-site delivery of civil, structural, and architectural works, ensuring execution aligns with approved drawings, specifications, programme, and quality standards.
• Lead and manage multiple contractors and subcontractors under split or multiple prime contract structures, ensuring clear interface management and effective coordination.
• Ensure effective coordination of MEP, civil, architectural, and structural works to avoid interface conflicts and construction delays.
• Act as the primary on-site point of contact for civil, structural, and architectural matters with clients, consultants, authorities, and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure full compliance with Saudi Building Code (SBC), Civil Defense, municipality requirements, and all relevant Saudi authority approvals and inspections.
• Lead review and approval of shop drawings, method statements, material submittals, and construction methodologies, ensuring constructability, compliance, and value for money.
• Drive implementation of value-engineering, cost-optimization, and constructability solutions adapted to local Saudi regulations, materials, and construction practices.
• Monitor and control site progress, quality, safety, and resources; proactively identify risks and implement mitigation measures to protect programme and cost.
• Chair site coordination meetings and technical workshops; issue clear instructions and follow up on actions with contractors and consultants.
• Coordinate closely with procurement and supply chain teams to ensure timely approval, sourcing, and delivery of materials and equipment.
• Oversee site inspections, snagging, testing, commissioning coordination (where applicable), and handover of civil, structural, and architectural works.
• Ensure accurate site records, progress reports, as-built documentation, and lessons learned are properly maintained and submitted.
• Package Interface & Risk Management
• Identify, manage, and mitigate interface risks arising from split contracts and multiple subcontractors.
• Develop and maintain package interface matrices, responsibility demarcation documents, and sequencing plans to mitigate scope gaps and interface risks.
• Maintain a live interface risk register and ensure responsibilities are clearly assigned and communicated.
• Manage cross-trade coordination meetings and resolve interface-related conflicts between subcontractors to avoid delays and claims.
• Lead coordination workshops with consultants, subcontractors, and internal teams to resolve interface and sequencing challenges.