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Job Description:
Parsons is looking for an exceptionally talented Lead QA Engineer to join our site-based Construction Supervision team on a major landmark development project in Riyadh.
The project comprises the design, enabling, and main works for a large-scale destination development featuring several iconic assets, hospitality facilities, and supporting infrastructure. Delivered under a client governance framework with stringent programme, quality, safety, and sustainability requirements, the Construction Supervision Consultant (CSC) is responsible for providing independent, end-to-end supervision and management, ensuring that all works are completed, integrated, tested, commissioned, and handed over to support both successful operations and long-term legacy objectives.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Provide Quality Systems support using the Parsons Quality Management System as the basis for process development, optimization, procedure development, data collection, reporting, and quality training.
- Support client pre-bid, bid, contract planning, and project mobilization activities, as directed.
- Establish project and programme Quality Management Systems, including quality plans, manuals, procedures, inspection frameworks, and audit schedules.
- Plan and conduct independent audits across project functions and ensure compliance with approved QA/QC programmes.
- Review project documents, witness audited activities, prepare audit checklists, and issue formal audit reports.
- Analyse audit findings to assess overall programme quality performance and identify recurring issues, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
- Promote and maintain a consistent Corrective Action/Preventive Action, Non-Conformance Report, and quality-observation tracking system.
- Monitor the timely closeout and effectiveness verification of corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure compliance with Parsons’ quality requirements, client standards, contract requirements, and approved project procedures.
- Prepare, review, update, and maintain project and programme Quality Manuals, Quality Plans, procedures, forms, and other quality-system documentation.
- Review and approve quality-related documents prepared by internal teams, contractors, consultants, and other external organizations.
- Provide quality support to project and construction management, including interfaces between engineering, procurement, construction, testing, commissioning, and handover activities.
- Perform statistical process control and evaluate quality performance data to identify trends, risks, and areas requiring management attention.
- Prepare quality performance reports, dashboards, metrics, and management summaries.
- Support quality-management reviews, lessons-learned workshops, and continual-improvement initiatives.
- Provide technical guidance, coaching, and mentoring to lower-level Quality Engineers and Quality personnel.
- Coordinate with construction supervision, engineering, testing and commissioning, document control, and client representatives to ensure effective quality-system implementation.
- Perform other responsibilities associated with the position as appropriate.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 15 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, quality management systems, construction supervision, or major infrastructure and building projects.
- Experience working on large-scale, complex, multidisciplinary construction or destination-development projects.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Professional certification such as ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, CQI/IRCA, ASQ, or equivalent.
- Membership of a recognized engineering or quality professional body.
- Experience with major programmes in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East.
- Experience supporting testing, commissioning, integrated systems, and project handover.
- Knowledge of statistical process control and quality-performance analytics.
- Previous experience working for a construction supervision consultant, programme management consultant, or client representative.
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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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quality Management, or a related discipline
- Minimum 15 years of relevant experience in quality assurance, quality management systems, construction supervision, or major infrastructure and building projects
- Experience working on large-scale, complex, multidisciplinary construction or destination-development projects
- ISO 9001 Lead Auditor, CQI/IRCA, ASQ, or equivalent professional certification
- Membership of a recognized engineering or quality professional body
- Experience with major programmes in Saudi Arabia or the wider Middle East
- Experience supporting testing, commissioning, integrated systems, and project handover
- Knowledge of statistical process control and quality-performance analytics
- Previous experience working for a construction supervision consultant, programme management consultant, or client representative
Parsons Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
