Road Safety Engineer (Road Engineer Experience)

Overview

Job Description

Road Safety Strategy Development (Core Task)

• This is the centerpiece of the assignment. You will oversee the consultants’ development of a comprehensive Road Safety Strategy for Makkah City and Holy Sites and contribute directly where the client needs in-house technical input. Oversight covers:
• Reviewing existing conditions work, collision pattern mapping, data analysis, and the existing policy landscape produced by the consultant
• Critically reviewing the evaluation and gap analysis against Saudi standards, GCC practice, and global benchmarks (Vision Zero, Safe System, NACTO, PIARC)
• Steering the selection of Emphasis Areas; the priority themes that will structure the strategy and challenge the consultant's rationale wherever needed.
• Guiding the Road Safety Strategy document through draft, task force review, and final publication, and accepting it on behalf of the client
• Reviewing and approving the KPI framework and reporting matrix used to measure implementation progress.
• Representing the client at consultation events and the strategy launch; these are formal, high-profile moments where the client representative SME should speak with authority.
• Directing and quality-assuring the black-spot identification methodology, site visits, engineering measure recommendations, cost estimates, and return-on-investment prioritization

Work Zone Safety Management

• Oversee the consultant's compliance audits against SAMAS (Saudi construction safety manuals) and relevant codes on active construction sites, and conduct spot-checks directly when the client needs independent verification.
• Review, challenge, and approve the Work Zone Traffic Safety Management Policies and Manuals developed by the consultant, and support their launch.
• Ensure the consultant's program specifically addresses the unique demands of Ramadan and Hajj periods, when the city transforms overnight.
• Track compliance outcomes and review the consultant's reporting.

Road Safety Audits (RSA)

• Review the gap analysis of the existing RSA process against iRAP, PIARC RSA guidelines, and Saudi/GCC practice.
• Approve updates to Road Safety Audit standards and specifications for local applicability.
• Technically, oversee the consultants’ conduct of RSAs across the road network, Holy Sites corridors, and key pilgrim routes, and join site visits where on-site presence is necessary.

Speed Management

• Review the consultant's analysis of the posted speed limit framework across Makkah's road network.
• Challenge and approve evidence-based recommendations for appropriate speed limits by road type, land use context, and pedestrian exposure.
• Endorse proposed locations for speed signs and enforcement radar placement and coordinate sign-off with enforcement agencies.

Incident Management Strategy

• Direct and validate the stakeholder mapping across all agencies involved in incident response (traffic police, civil defense, health, municipalities)
• Review the service design for an integrated incident management system.
• Review and approve the enabling procedures, cost-benefit model, and outline operating plan.

Traffic Safety Committee Support (Ongoing Monthly Role)

• You will be the technical backbone for a standing Traffic Safety Committee, which means:
• Providing administrative coordination and technical secretariat support
• Conducting ad-hoc technical studies as instructed
• Managing committee transactions and formal documentation
• Reviewing and advising on speed reducer (traffic calming) requests from across the city

Project Management and Client Support (Daily)

• Beyond the technical work, the candidate should:
• Hold the consultant to the Project Management Delivery System from day one; program, risk register, quality plan, reporting protocol; and maintain the client-side mirror of each.
• Interface with the consultant's specialist team (transport planners, road engineers, GIS, data analysts, legal/policy expert, QS) and direct them on the client's priorities.
• Track and accept deliverables against the contract milestones and authorize milestone signoffs.
• Flag risks early and resolve issues before they become problems; proactively, not reactively.
• Be present and available in Makkah; this is not a remote or occasional visit role. Be ready to provide direct technical support to the client on adjacent road-safety matters outside the consultant's contracted scope.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (master’s preferred) in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• SCE, QGIS or ArcGIS are required
• PMI iRAP are preferred
• Proven experience developing and implementing Traffic and road safety strategies and programs
• 14 years Minimum experience, preferred exp in the same field.
• At least 5 years of direct experience working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC region.
• Proven history delivering multi-task, multi-year road safety strategies or programs at the city or national level.
• Working firsthand familiarity with collision data systems, safety audits, speed management programs, and work zone safety; enough to challenge and verify consultant work, and to step in directly where the client needs it.
• Experience working client-side or interfacing with client-side teams in complex, multi-stakeholder government environments; coordinating across agencies, ministries, and operational bodies.
• Demonstrated experience preparing and presenting technical work to senior government stakeholders, including Arabic-language correspondence and committee documentation review.
• Experience in mass gathering / unique events contexts (Hajj, Umrah, large pilgrim flows) would be a significant advantage; this is a genuinely unusual operational environment.