Survey Engineer

Survey Engineer Skip to main content English Sign In Search for Jobs Survey Engineer page is loadedSurvey Engineer Apply remote typeOffice locationsSA - Riyadh time typeFull time posted onPosted Yesterday job requisition idR187407 In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description: 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. 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. What You’ll Be Doing • 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. What Required Skills You’ll Bring • Bachelor’s degree in Surveying Engineering, or a related discipline from a recognized institution. • Membership of the Saudi Council of Engineers is preferred. • 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. What 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. • Experience with major building or mixed-use developments in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC region is preferred. • 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. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information. 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! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY! Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/. 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