Senior Fire & Life Safety Project Manager

About the role

Egis, an international engineering, consulting and construction firm operating in the Middle East, is hiring a Senior Fire & Life Safety (FLS) Project Manager in Riyadh. The role owns the end-to-end delivery of FLS projects, with accountability for technical quality, commercial performance, programme, resources, client management and successful completion. It calls for strong technical knowledge of FLS disciplines combined with proven project and commercial management capability.

Key responsibilities

• Provide overall technical leadership for FLS projects and manage technical inputs across fire and life safety strategies, fire protection and firefighting systems, fire alarm and detection systems, passive fire protection, smoke control, means of egress, compartmentation, alternative suppression systems, fire service access and performance-based fire engineering.
• Ensure designs and deliverables comply with local codes, Civil Defence requirements, international standards and project requirements, and review critical deliverables against quality-control processes.
• Direct project engineers, specialists and design-review teams, resolve complex technical issues and document technical decisions and deviations.
• Coordinate technical submissions and responses to Civil Defence and other authorities, and lead technical workshops with clients, designers, contractors and approving authorities.
• Manage project risks and resources, control scope and budget, and balance technical quality, client needs, programme, resources, commercial performance and authority approvals.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Fire Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• At least 15 years of relevant Fire & Life Safety / Fire Engineering experience, including managing complex multidisciplinary projects.
• Experience managing consultants, specialist engineers and multidisciplinary design interfaces.
• Experience with Civil Defence / authority approval processes is highly desirable.
• PMP or equivalent project-management qualification is advantageous; professional certification or engineering registration is preferred.

Required skills

• Strong working knowledge of NFPA standards, local building and fire codes and Civil Defence requirements.
• Technical, commercial and project management capabilities.