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Senior Site Architect – High-End Finishes & Fit-Out Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Employment Type: Full-time | On-site Required Experience: At least 5 years of relevant architectural site execution experience, including at least 3 years within Saudi Arabia. Availability: Immediate joining required. Applicants must currently be based in Saudi Arabia. ABOUT THE ROLEQWAED AL-EMMAR (QAE) is seeking a Senior Site Architect to lead the execution of architectural works, high-end finishes, and interior fit-out, with experience supervising façades and coordinating external works. This site-based contracting role involves daily work planning, subcontractor supervision, quality inspections, multidisciplinary coordination, safety oversight, and handover. Candidates must have proven site execution experience on large-scale hospitality, commercial, and residential projects. ARCHITECTURAL AND FINISHING WORKSSupervise execution and inspect workmanship across the following packages, as applicable to the project:Masonry, plastering, rendering, and substrate preparation. Gypsum board ceilings, partitions and linings, suspended ceilings, and decorative gypsum works. Marble, natural stone, porcelain, ceramic tiles, and mosaics. Timber flooring, parquet, vinyl, carpets, and epoxy flooring. Painting, putty, decorative coatings, wallcoverings, and wallpaper. Architectural joinery and fixed furniture, including doors, wardrobes, wall panelling, counters, vanity units, and associated hardware. Glass, mirrors, aluminium works, decorative metalwork, and balustrades. Waterproofing to wet areas, roofs, and planters, together with joint sealing and interfaces with finishes. Glazed façades and curtain walls, including Stick and Unitized systems and Structural Silicone Glazing. Aluminium windows and doors, including thermally broken, hinged, and sliding systems, storefront glazing, glazed partitions, and skylights. External cladding, including mechanically fixed stone, metal panels, solid and composite aluminium panels, GRC/GFRC, louvers, and sunshades. Hardscape works, including paving, interlock, kerbs, walkways, plazas, external steps, ramps, and decking. Planters, pergolas, canopies, boundary walls, fences, gates, and outdoor furniture. Coordination of softscape, irrigation, external lighting, and drainage with specialist contractors. Architectural finishes and waterproofing interfaces for swimming pools and water features, where applicable. Installation coordination of Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E), sanitary fixtures and bathroom accessories, decorative lighting, curtains, and furnishings. KEY RESPONSIBILITIESLead daily site activities, organise work fronts, and supervise subcontractors, foremen, and site teams. Plan work sequences and verify the availability of approved drawings, materials, manpower, access, and suitable site conditions. Review shop drawings, specifications, material approvals, and samples before execution; raise technical queries and resolve issues with the technical office and relevant disciplines. Coordinate architectural, structural, MEP, façade, and external works, ensuring concealed services and required inspections are completed before closure. Personally inspect materials and workmanship against approved requirements, checking dimensions, levels, alignment, joints, interfaces, finish consistency, and installation quality. Apply approved method statements and inspection and test plans; document defects and non-conformances and verify corrective work. Prepare material and work inspection requests, attend consultant inspections, and close observations. Supervise mock-ups and model rooms and maintain approved quality standards throughout subsequent execution. Follow up on façade installation, specialist drawings, material approvals, and required testing with specialist subcontractors. Coordinate deliveries, storage, installation readiness, FF&E interfaces, and protection of completed works. Prepare short-term work plans and progress reports covering quantities, manpower, productivity, constraints, and recovery actions. Monitor material usage, minimise waste and rework, and manage snagging and final handover. Record approved site changes and provide verified information for as-built drawings and handover documents. Monitor safety and occupational health requirements within the assigned scope, brief workers on task-related risks, and enforce appropriate PPE, housekeeping, safe access, and safe working practices. Identify hazards, stop unsafe activities, and report issues to project management for corrective action. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCEBachelor’s degree in Architecture or Architectural Engineering. At least 5 years of architectural site execution and finishing experience, including at least 3 years within Saudi Arabia. Proven hands-on experience in high-end finishes and interior fit-out on large-scale hospitality, commercial, and residential projects. Ability to supervise subcontractors and site teams and manage activities through inspection and completion. Strong practical knowledge of finishing materials, installation methods, gypsum systems, joinery, stonework, waterproofing, and workmanship standards used in Saudi Arabia. Experience supervising façade, glazing, and aluminium installation and coordinating specialist subcontractors. Ability to interpret architectural, structural, and MEP drawings and resolve site interfaces. Ability to independently inspect materials and workmanship, identify defects, and follow corrective actions through to closure. Experience with consultant inspections, mock-ups, snagging, and handover. Working knowledge of FF&E installation and coordination. Familiarity with Saudi Building Code requirements and specifications relevant to the architectural scope. Practical knowledge of site safety and occupational health requirements and the ability to direct safe working practices. Proficiency in Auto CAD and Excel, with the ability to prepare site reports and technical correspondence in English. Strong leadership, attention to detail, follow-up, problem-solving, and deadline management. Currently based in Saudi Arabia and available for immediate joining and full-time site work in Riyadh. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSExperience with luxury hotels, model rooms, hotel operator standards, and complex interior finishes. Experience delivering finishing packages from substrate preparation through final handover. Experience in hardscape and coordination of softscape, irrigation, and external works. Familiarity with Revit and Navisworks for model review and coordination. Relevant training in construction quality inspection or occupational health and safety. HOW TO APPLYCandidates who meet all essential requirements are invited to email their application to:hr@aljammaz-co.comEmail subject:Senior Site Architect – Full Name – Current City Required attachments:Updated CV: Include employers, employment dates, and relevant Saudi Arabia experience. Project portfolio: A concise PDF showing completed works and, where available, execution stages, mock-ups, and finishing details. Identify your personal responsibilities. Project list: Include names, locations, project types, approximate scale, work packages, and stages personally handled. This may be included in your CV or portfolio. Please answer the following questions in the email body:What is your current city, and are you available for full-time site work in Riyadh? How many years of architectural site execution experience do you have in total, and how many were within Saudi Arabia? How many years of hands-on experience do you have in high-end finishes and fit-out? Which hospitality, commercial, and residential projects have you worked on, and what were your responsibilities? Which finishing packages have you directly supervised, and what teams or subcontractors have you managed? What façade, glazing, aluminium, and landscape systems or works have you supervised? State your inspection and handover responsibilities. Describe a finishing defect or coordination issue you resolved and how you verified the result. What experience do you have in material and workmanship inspections, consultant inspections, and snag closure? What FF&E responsibilities have you handled? What practical experience or training do you have in site safety and occupational health? What is your proficiency in Auto CAD and Excel, and your familiarity with Revit and Navisworks? Why are you seeking a new opportunity, or why did you leave your most recent employer? How many calendar days do you need to join after accepting an employment offer? Enter “0” if available immediately and state any notice period or procedures affecting your start date. What is your expected total monthly salary in SAR, including basic salary and all fixed allowances, excluding variable bonuses? PROFESSIONAL REFERENCESFinal-stage candidates will be asked to provide two professional references, with a third if available, preferably former direct managers or project managers. Provide each reference’s name, job title, organisation and project where you worked together, professional relationship, and telephone number and/or work email, after obtaining their permission to share these details. References will be contacted with the candidate’s prior consent. A current employer will not be contacted without explicit permission. SELECTION PROCESSShortlisted candidates will discuss their site responsibilities and portfolio. Assessment may include a short practical scenario covering execution, quality inspection, coordination, work sequencing, or safety. Work samples and photographs must be permitted for sharing and exclude confidential project information. Redacted samples are acceptable.

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> <p>Decima International is a professional services company, providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East. Our mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors we are engaged in. To accomplish this, Decima International’s founders established a simple yet powerful formula:</p><br><p>Approach each client engagement as a&amp;nbsp;<strong>partnership</strong>, create an environment that attracts the&amp;nbsp;<strong>most talented professionals</strong>&amp;nbsp;and allows them to flourish, and regulate&amp;nbsp;<strong>growth</strong>&amp;nbsp;to maintain&amp;nbsp;<strong>excellence</strong>&amp;nbsp;in our service standards.</p><br><br><p>If you are interested in a long and rewarding career working with high-profile clients on some of the most challenging projects in the world, then Decima is where you belong. At Decima, you will be able to explore incredible growth and professional development opportunities.</p><br><p>We are seeking an accomplished and highly motivated <strong>Project Lead</strong> to lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers performing comprehensive technical reviews of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs), and Method of Procedures (MOPs) for mission-critical data center facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.</p><br><p>The Project Lead will serve as the primary technical and project coordination lead, ensuring that procedure reviews are completed on schedule, meet client expectations, and comply with applicable Saudi Arabian regulations, client standards, and industry best practices.</p><br><p>The ideal candidate will have extensive experience supporting mission-critical facilities, data center operations, commissioning, facility engineering, operational readiness, or critical infrastructure, with the ability to lead technical teams and manage complex deliverables in a fast-paced client environment.</p><br><p>You will play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and compliant operation of mission-critical facilities by overseeing procedure reviews, coordinating technical resources, resolving issues, managing deliverables, and serving as the primary interface with client stakeholders.</p><br><p><strong>&amp;nbsp;</strong></p><br><p><strong>&amp;nbsp;</strong></p><br><p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES</strong></p><br><ul><li>Lead and coordinate a multidisciplinary team of Mechanical, Electrical, and Safety Engineers performing reviews of SOPs, EOPs, and MOPs for mission-critical data center facilities.</li><li>Develop project execution plans, schedules, resource assignments, deliverable trackers, and reporting tools to ensure effective project delivery.</li><li>Monitor project progress, track milestones, manage priorities, and ensure client commitments are achieved on time and to the required quality standards.</li><li>Identify project risks, technical issues, resource constraints, and schedule challenges, and develop mitigation strategies to ensure delivery objectives are maintained.</li><li>Facilitate regular project meetings with internal teams, engineering staff, leadership, and client representatives.</li><li>Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned projects, coordinating technical meetings with client operations, engineering, and facility management teams.</li><li>Provide technical guidance during the review of SOPs, EOPs, and MOPs to ensure procedures are accurate, practical, safe, and aligned with operational requirements.</li><li>Ensure procedures accurately reflect current facility configurations, operating philosophies, system redundancies, and site-specific requirements.</li><li>Review engineering comments and recommendations for technical accuracy, consistency, completeness, and alignment with review criteria.</li><li>Resolve technical conflicts and ensure standardized application of review methodologies across all facilities and disciplines.</li><li>Perform final quality reviews of deliverables before client submission, ensuring comments, revisions, and technical recommendations are properly addressed.</li><li>Ensure reviewed procedures support the safe and reliable operation of mission-critical infrastructure, including medium- and low-voltage electrical distribution, utility service and switching, UPS systems, standby generators, Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS), chilled water systems, cooling towers, Computer Room Air Handlers (CRAH), pumps, valves, Building Management Systems (BMS), and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS).</li><li>Verify procedures appropriately address Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Permit-to-Work requirements, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), electrical safety, arc flash hazards, isolation and verification requirements, emergency response procedures, and operational risk mitigation.</li><li>Ensure procedure reviews comply with Saudi Arabian regulatory requirements, client standards, and applicable international codes and standards adopted by the project.</li><li>Establish quality review processes for project deliverables, ensuring document revisions are properly controlled, traceable, and aligned with client expectations.</li><li>Monitor review quality, provide coaching to engineering staff, and support continuous improvement of technical review methodologies and standards.</li><li>Present review findings, technical recommendations, project updates, risks, and deliverable status to client stakeholders and project leadership.</li><li>Support the resolution of client comments and facilitate the final acceptance of the document.</li><li>Assign workloads, monitor team performance, provide technical leadership and mentorship, and promote collaboration, accountability, safety, and operational excellence.</li><li>Perform other related duties as required and assigned.</li></ul><p><strong>QUALIFICATIONS</strong></p><br><p><strong>Required qualifications:</strong></p><br><ul><li>10+ years of experience supporting mission-critical facilities, data center operations, commissioning, facility engineering, operational readiness, critical infrastructure, or related technical environments.</li><li>5+ years of project management, program management, or technical team leadership experience leading complex engineering or operations projects.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline.</li><li>Demonstrated experience reviewing, developing, approving, or managing SOPs, EOPs, and MOPs for mission-critical or critical infrastructure facilities.</li><li>Strong operational knowledge of mission-critical electrical and mechanical systems, including electrical distribution, switching, UPS systems, standby generators, ATS, chilled water systems, cooling towers, CRAH units, pumps, valves, BMS, and EPMS.</li><li>Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinating technical deliverables across mechanical, electrical, safety, operations, and facility management disciplines.</li><li>Strong understanding of mission-critical facility operations, maintenance strategies, operational risk management, and system redundancy principles.</li><li>Working knowledge of safety and operational requirements, including LOTO, Permit-to-Work, PPE, electrical safety, arc flash hazards, isolation procedures, emergency response, and operational risk mitigation.</li><li>Familiarity with applicable mission-critical industry standards, codes, and operational best practices, including ASHRAE, NFPA, ISO, IEC, Uptime Institute Tier Standards, TIA-942, BICSI, and applicable international building, fire, energy, and local authority requirements.</li><li>Ability to review complex operational procedures, identify gaps or risks, and provide clear technical recommendations.</li><li>Strong project planning, coordination, organizational, and reporting skills.</li><li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage client representatives, leadership, technical teams, and facility operations teams.</li><li>Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining high-quality deliverables in a fast-paced, client-focused environment.</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.</li></ul><p><strong>Preferred qualifications:</strong></p><br><ul><li>Direct experience supporting mission-critical facilities in Saudi Arabia or the wider GCC region.</li><li>Experience working on hyperscale or colocation data center operations.</li><li>Experience serving as a Commissioning Authority (CxA), Owner’s Engineer, Owner’s Representative, or client-side technical lead.</li><li>Professional Engineer (PE), Chartered Engineer status, or equivalent professional registration.</li><li>Experience managing operational procedure review programs for mission-critical facilities.</li><li>Experience with commissioning, startup, facility engineering, maintenance, operational readiness, document control, and technical procedure development.</li><li>Experience managing multi-site programs or portfolio-level technical deliverables.</li><li>Professional certifications such as PMP, CAPM, CDCP, Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Specialist (ATS), NFPA 70E, OSHA 30-Hour Construction or General Industry, or relevant client-specific operational training.</li></ul><p><strong>POSITION DETAILS</strong></p><br><ul><li><strong>Location (On-site):</strong> Kingdom of Saudi Arabia</li><li><strong>Position:</strong> Project Lead</li><li><strong>Position Classification:</strong> Project-Based</li></ul><p><strong>Please note:&amp;nbsp;</strong>This position is part of our anticipated expansion in&amp;nbsp;<strong>KSA</strong>. While we are excited about the opportunities this role will offer, the position is not currently active and is associated with the planned launch of our operations in the region. By applying, you acknowledge that this is a future opportunity and not an offer of immediate employment. We appreciate your interest and encourage you to express your intent to be considered once the role becomes available.</p><br><br><p>Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to the safety and well-being of all. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law.</p><br><br> </div><h2 data-automation-id="subHeaderPreferredCandidate" class="h5"> Preferred candidate </h2> <div class="row is-m v-align-top t-small bg-mute"> <div class="col is-3 p5" data-automation-id="label_Years_of_experience"> <b>Years of experience</b> </div> <div class="col is-9 p5" data-automation-id="data_Years_of_experience"> No experience required </div> </div> <div class="row is-m v-align-top t-small "> <div class="col is-3 p5" data-automation-id="label_Degree"> <b>Degree</b> </div> <div class="col is-9 p5" data-automation-id="data_Degree"> Bachelor's degree / higher diploma </div> </div>