Associate Infrastructure Engineer

Ready to shape the region’s infrastructure with Buro Happold? We’re looking for a passionate Associate Civil / Wet Utilities / Roads Engineer to join our Riyadh infrastructure team and help deliver cutting-edge, sustainable infrastructure solutions across Saudi Arabia.

Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with, from career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships, wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it will be anything but ordinary.

Your next role

Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive. You will be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. All of Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that is the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make an impact and leave a real legacy.

Your key duties

We are seeking a motivated Associate Civil / Wet Utilities / Roads Engineer to support the planning, design, and delivery of civil infrastructure and wet utility networks across some of the region’s most ambitious infrastructure and masterplanning projects.

As part of our regional infrastructure team, you will:

• Support the design and coordination of civil infrastructure including:
• Road networks, pavements, and highway alignments
• Stormwater drainage systems, surface water management, and flood mitigation
• Foul sewer networks and potable water distribution systems
• Assist in developing infrastructure strategies within urban and regional masterplans and prepare and review civil layouts, profiles, grading designs, hydraulic calculations, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including transport planning, structures, environmental, utilities, and urban planning teams.
• Assist in producing technical reports, design submissions, specifications, and client deliverables while supporting clash detection, design integration, and corridor optimisation across projects.
• Ensure designs are developed in line with relevant Saudi Arabian codes, standards, and authority requirements, maintaining design assumptions, calculations, and documentation in line with established QA/QC processes.
• Support modelling and analysis using civil engineering design tools such as Civil 3D, MicroStation, and hydraulic modelling software.
  
  
  

Your Skills And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in Infrastructure design within consultancy, engineering, or utility sectors.
• Strong analytical, coordination, and problem‑solving skills.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with tools like AutoCAD, Civil 3D, or MicroStation is beneficial.
  
  
  

What We Offer You

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements
• Attractive salary and benefits package
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
  
  
  

At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.

Apply today and be a part of our legacy.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments, we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact [email protected] so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.