Survey Engineer

Parsons is seeking an exceptionally talented Survey Engineer to join our site-based Construction Supervision team on a major landmark development project in Riyadh. The project comprises the design, enabling works, and construction of a large-scale destination development featuring iconic buildings, hospitality facilities, and associated architectural and building works.

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Responsibilities

• Delivered under a client governance framework with stringent programme, quality, safety, and sustainability requirements, the Construction Supervision Consultant is responsible for providing independent, end-to-end supervision and management to ensure that all works are completed, inspected, tested, commissioned, and handed over in accordance with the approved design and project requirements.
• Report to the Resident Engineer or Construction Director and act as the lead surveyor for all building-related surveying, setting-out, and verification activities.
• Supervise and coordinate Parsons’ building survey team and review the contractor’s survey activities to ensure accuracy and compliance with approved drawings, specifications, and project requirements.
• Verify the control points, benchmarks, reference coordinates, and datums established by the contractor and confirm t heir correct relationship to the approved project grid system.
• Check and confirm the contractor’s setting-out for building grids, structural columns, walls, cores, shafts, floor levels, openings, façade elements, architectural features, and other building components.
• Conduct independent spot checks and verification surveys to confirm that constructed works comply with approved drawings, specifications, tolerances, and quality standards.
• Verify building lines, levels, verticality, dimensions, elevations, floor-to-floor heights, structural interfaces, and architectural finishes.
• Review and comment on contractor survey reports, setting-out drawings, coordination drawings, dimensional control reports, and as-built surveys.
• Identify and report discrepancies between approved design information, shop drawings, coordinated drawings, and actual site conditions.
• Support the Resident Engineer and discipline engineers in resolving setting-out, dimensional, and interface-related issues.
• Coordinate survey activities with structural, architectural, MEP, façade, interiors, and specialist subcontractor teams to support accurate installation and interface coordination.
• Verify the location and alignment of embedded items, sleeves, openings, supports, anchor bolts, façade brackets, and other building-related components.
• Carry out dimensional control surveys for structural frames, façades, architectural elements, internal partitions, ceilings, finishes, and specialist installations.
• Review contractor surveys related to floor levels, slab thicknesses, deflections, plumbness, alignment, and building tolerances.
• Maintain the proper use, calibration, certification, and safekeeping of survey equipment, including total stations, GPS/GNSS equipment, digital levels, laser instruments, and related accessories.
• Manage and maintain organized digital and hard-copy records of survey data, field notes, inspection records, calibration certificates, and as-built information.
• Support the verification of building quantities, dimensional measurements, and progress records in coordination with the commercial and quantity surveying teams.
• Participate in progress, technical, coordination, and quality meetings, providing survey-related inputs, constraints, and recommendations.
• Ensure all survey activities are carried out in accordance with project HSE requirements, safe work practices, quality procedures, and approved method statements.
• Assist in the preparation and review of building as-built drawings, dimensional control records, and final survey documentation for client handover and project closeout.

Requirements

• Required Skills You’ll Bring Bachelor’s degree in Surveying Engineering, or a related discipline from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience , including significant experience on major mixed-use, commercial, hospitality, high-rise, or landmark building projects.
• Proven experience in building surveying, dimensional control, construction setting-out, and as-built verification.
• Strong proficiency in the use of modern surveying instruments and software, including total stations, GPS/GNSS equipment, digital levels, laser instruments, and survey data-processing tools.
• Experience with building survey and coordination platforms, CAD software, BIM environments, or related digital survey applications.
• Desired Skills You’ll Bring Strong understanding of surveying principles, coordinate systems, datums, leveling, dimensional control, and construction setting-out for building works.
• Proven experience working within a site-based construction supervision or consultancy environment.
• Practical experience verifying contractor setting-out and as-built information for structural, architectural, façade, interior, and MEP works.
• Ability to read and interpret structural, architectural, façade, interior, and MEP drawings and translate design information into accurate field layouts.
• Experience checking building grids, structural alignment, verticality, floor levels, openings, embedded items, façade interfaces, and architectural elements.
• Strong attention to detail, analytical skills, and record-keeping abilities, with a commitment to accuracy and quality.
• Good communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and specialist subcontractors.
• Ability to identify dimensional discrepancies, assess their potential impact, and support timely corrective action.
• Knowledge of construction quality procedures, inspection and test plans, method statements, and project handover requirements.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, multicultural, and demanding site environment.

Preferred

• Membership of the Saudi Council of Engineers is preferred.
• Experience with major building or mixed-use developments in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC region is preferred.

Benefits

• We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars!

• Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.
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