📢 We’re hiring at Chestertons Saudi Arabia!
We are currently looking for experienced professionals to join our Building Consultancy & Project Management team in Riyadh:
🔹 Architect / Senior Project Manager
If you have the relevant experience and are looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
📩 Send your CV to: careers@chestertons.com
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Key Responsibilities
- Report to the Project Director and support the site team in the management and delivery of
- hospitality fit-out and construction projects from mobilization through final handover.
- Coordinate site execution activities between contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, consultants, and
- client representatives.
- Monitor construction progress, site activities, and project milestones to ensure alignment with
- approved programme and delivery targets.
- Review architectural, interior design, MEP, and shop drawings to ensure coordination between
- design intent and site implementation.
- Manage and coordinate technical changes, RFIs, site instructions, and construction-related design
- updates.
- Identify clashes, technical inconsistencies, and constructability issues during execution stages.
- Coordinate material approvals, mock-ups, technical submittals, and supplier deliverables.
- Monitor site quality, workmanship, and compliance with project specifications and hospitality
- standards.
- Conduct regular site inspections, progress reviews, snagging inspections, and coordination
- meetings.
- Follow up on procurement status, long-lead items, supplier schedules, and delivery coordination.
- Support in tracking project risks, delays, variation requests, and commercial impacts related to
- execution.
- Ensure proper coordination between architectural, MEP, structural, FLS, kitchen, specialist, and
- operator requirements.
- Prepare project reports, progress updates, meeting minutes, action trackers, and technical
- coordination documentation.
- Coordinate authority requirements, permits, inspections, and compliance activities where required.
- Support project close-out activities including testing & commissioning, handover documentation,
- as-built drawings, O&M manuals, and defect management.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Architecture.
- Approximately 8–15 years of experience in project management, fit-out delivery, or construction
- management roles.
- Proven experience delivering hospitality, hotel, resort, F&B, or high-end mixed-use fit-out projects.
- Strong background in hospitality fit-out and construction execution.
- Good technical understanding of architectural detailing, interior fit-out systems, MEP coordination,
- materials, construction methodologies, and site execution processes.
- Experience reviewing IFC drawings, shop drawings, technical submittals, and construction
- documentation.
- Strong site awareness including quality inspections, snagging, and contractor coordination.
- Experience coordinating multiple suppliers and specialist subcontractors.
- Good understanding of project planning, sequencing, construction logistics, and delivery control.
- GCC experience is preferred.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD, Bluebeam/PDF review tools, Microsoft Office, and project reporting tools.
Preferred Profile
- Architect with strong construction and delivery mindset rather than purely design-focused profile.
- Hands-on professional capable of operating between site, consultants, suppliers, and client
- management teams.
- Strong coordination and problem-solving abilities under fast-track project conditions.
- Good understanding of hospitality quality standards, finishes, and operational requirements.
- Able to manage multiple stakeholders and maintain project control throughout execution phases.
- Detail-oriented with strong follow-up and reporting skills.
- Comfortable working in both technical coordination and site execution environments.
