Road Safety Manager
Parsons · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · 1d ago
Job Description:
Parsons is now hiring an experienced Road Safety Manager to join our team with a desire to work on infrastructure and Highway projects. The role is central to ensuring engineering integrity, design compliance, and technical coordination across all phases of the project lifecycle (include design, construction, and operation stages). The Road Safety Manager will lead coordination with the design consultants and with the contractors in coordination with the key stakeholders for the various packages, and ensure alignment with project standards, authority requirements, and stakeholder expectations to ensure all technical risks are identified and resolved proactively.
What You'll Be Doing
- Demonstrated knowledge in conducting road safety audits in accordance with the guidelines and procedures for road safety auditing and assessments throughout the MEA region.
- Ability to serve as a road safety audit team leader (Senior Road Safety Auditor) on local and international road safety audits sessions and assessments throughout the Ring Roads and Main Roads within big Highway Program in MEA region.
- Proven experience as a road safety engineer with international experience in road safety audits and studies, road safety engineering, road traffic signage and human factors in engineering.
- Proficient in conducting road safety reviews for complex highways projects such as dual carriageway, freeway, expressway, tunnels, bridges, interchanges, intersections in fully developed residential/ commercial environment; conducting road safety audits at all stages and on numerous types of facilities under all traffic conditions; according to the international and local KSA codes and Demonstrate experience of serving as Technical Adviser to road authorities in the development of policies, standards and manuals for road safety, road traffic signs and markings and information transfer to road users.
- Design and deliver education and awareness initiatives to campaigns to enhance knowledge of road safety risk and opportunities including presentations to senior client management committees.
- Design and deliver strategies to ensure the right level of engagement and consultation with stakeholders takes place.
- Ensure that program wide stakeholders road safety related risks, issues and opportunities are captured.
- Advise on safety in design, and ensure all disciplines understand and implement the principles of the Safe System Approach (Safe Roads/Roadsides, Safe Speeds, Safe Road Users, Safe Vehicles and Post Crash Response.
- Manage the relationship with all the design companies and key stakeholders to ensure smooth cooperation.
- Ensure that technical risks are clearly identified, tracked, and mitigated throughout the project lifecycle. Monitor adherence to client requirements, project goals, and quality benchmarks.
- Maintain current awareness of international and regional codes, standards, and technical best practices.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Engineering or related field such as Transportation
- Chartered Engineer status required.
- Certified Road Auditor.
- Minimum 15 years of relevant technical/engineering experience, including delivery of complex, multi-disciplinary projects.
- Proven experience managing design development/construction for major infrastructure programs in the Middle East.
- Experience coordinating with stakeholders, contractors, and authority bodies is essential.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical coordination and resolve engineering challenges across design and construction.
- Has previous experience in conducting RSA tasks during the different project stages and managing the RSA with all the project parties (clients, consultants, contractors, other stakeholders, … etc.).
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Arabic speaker is preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of related work experience with proven Middle East experience preferred
- Professional Engineer registration
- Excellent written and verbal communication, capable of translating complex technical matters into clear guidance.
- Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment under tight deadlines.
- Skilled in technical documentation, reporting, and quality assurance processes.
- Strong leadership in technical management and coordination of multidisciplinary teams.
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