Senior Engineer (Structural)

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 51stlargest 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 and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling 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, employee referral rewards.

Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Structural Engineer to join our Project Management and Construction Supervision team on a prestigious villa development project in Riyadh. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the delivery of a high-quality residential development, ensuring structural works are executed to the highest standards of safety, quality, and engineering excellence.

The successful candidate will possess extensive consultancy experience overseeing structural works on luxury residential, villa, mixed-use, or high-end building developments. You will work closely with the Resident Engineer, contractors, design consultants, and client representatives to ensure the successful delivery of all structural elements throughout the construction lifecycle.

• Supervising all structural construction activities on site to ensure compliance with approved drawings, specifications, contract requirements, and local authority regulations.
• Reviewing contractor shop drawings, structural calculations, material submittals, method statements, and inspection requests.
• Monitoring structural works including foundations, retaining walls, reinforced concrete structures, post-tensioned slabs (where applicable), steel structures, masonry, and finishing structural elements.
• Ensureingconstruction activities comply with approved structural designs and international engineering standards.
• Coordinating closely with architectural, civil, MEP, landscape, and infrastructure teams to resolve interface issues.
• Conducting regular site inspections and quality audits to verify workmanship and compliance.
• Witnessing testing and inspections including concrete pours, reinforcement inspections, material testing, load testing, and structural integrity inspections.
• Reviewing Requests for Information (RFIs), technical queries, and engineering change proposals.
• Identifying construction risks and provide practical engineering solutions to maintain programme objectives.
• Assisting in evaluating contractor progress and monitor compliance with project schedules.
• Supporting the Resident Engineer with technical reporting, progress meetings, and client presentations.
• Reviewing non-conformance reports (NCRs), corrective actions, and close-out documentation.
• Ensuring health, safety, and environmental standards are maintained throughout all structural activities.
• Participate in project coordination meetings with contractors, consultants, and client stakeholders.
• Mentoring junior engineers and inspectors while promoting engineering best practice across the project.

To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 15 years work experience partnered with aBachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent. 7 years of your career will have been focused purely working for an engineering consultancy or PMC environment

Strong understanding of reinforced concrete and structural engineering principles

KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise 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.