Road Network Engineer (ITS) - City Operations & Maintenance (Saudi National)

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next! At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description: Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Road Network Engineer (ITS) – City Operations & Maintenance (Saudi National) to join our team! In this role you will get to oversee the operational performance, safety, asset condition, and continuous traffic flow of a city-wide road network within a landmark giga-project. You will support Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic operations, road asset maintenance, event mobility, and smart-city integration to ensure highways, urban streets, and transit corridors operate safely and efficiently during daily operations and major events. What You'll Be Doing - Oversee the day-to-day operational performance and condition of highways, urban roads, intersections, transit corridors, and associated road infrastructure. - Monitor real-time traffic conditions using Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), traffic management platforms, roadside sensors, CCTV, and traffic data feeds. - Analyze traffic speeds, volumes, congestion levels, travel times, incidents, and network performance to identify operational issues. - Monitor and optimize intelligent traffic signal operations and timing plans to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion. - Coordinate with Traffic Management Centers (TMC), City Operations, Security, emergency services, and other stakeholders during incidents and network disruptions. - Support rapid response to road accidents, vehicle breakdowns, obstructions, and other incidents affecting network availability. - Develop and implement traffic management measures to maintain safe and efficient movement during planned and unplanned disruptions. - Conduct regular technical inspections and condition assessments of roads, pavements, intersections, and associated infrastructure. - Identify pavement defects including cracking, potholes, rutting, settlement, surface deterioration, and other asset condition issues. - Develop and coordinate preventive and corrective road maintenance programs based on asset condition, operational priority, and lifecycle requirements. - Support planning and delivery of pavement rehabilitation, resurfacing, road marking, and associated maintenance activities. - Monitor the condition and maintenance of road barriers, guardrails, street lighting, stormwater drainage, road markings, signage, and associated roadside assets. - Coordinate maintenance activities to minimize disruption to traffic and maintain safe access throughout the network. - Monitor contractors performing road, ITS, and associated infrastructure maintenance and verify compliance with approved SLAs, KPIs, specifications, and safety requirements. - Develop and review Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) plans for construction activities, maintenance works, concerts, sporting events, festivals, and other major events. - Plan safe diversions, detours, temporary lane closures, traffic control arrangements, and alternative access routes. - Coordinate event traffic strategies with parking, public transport, security, emergency response, venue operations, and mobility teams. - Assess road network capacity against anticipated event demand and identify potential congestion points before major events. - Coordinate road network operations with parking arrival and departure strategies to reduce queuing and congestion around major destinations. - Analyze historical and real-time traffic telemetry to identify recurring congestion zones, network bottlenecks, and operational improvement opportunities. - Support integration of roadside ITS devices, traffic signals, CCTV, Variable Message Signs (VMS), traffic detectors, and other smart mobility technologies. - Coordinate integration of road and ITS systems with the central City Operations or Traffic Management platform. - Support planning and operational readiness for connected, autonomous, and emerging mobility technologies where applicable. - Develop and monitor network performance indicators covering traffic flow, congestion, incidents, asset condition, system availability, and maintenance performance. - Maintain accurate road asset records, inspection findings, maintenance histories, incident logs, and operational data using GIS, CMMS, or asset management systems. - Prepare technical reports, traffic assessments, dashboards, maintenance recommendations, and management presentations. - Identify operational and asset-related risks and develop practical mitigation and improvement measures. - Coordinate with Asset Management, Parking Operations, Public Transport, Facilities Management

Oversee the day-to-day operational performance and condition of highways, urban roads, intersections, transit corridors, and associated road infrastructure. Monitor real-time traffic conditions using ITS, traffic management platforms, roadside sensors, CCTV, and traffic data feeds. Analyze traffic speeds, volumes, congestion levels, travel times, incidents, and network performance to identify operational issues. Monitor and optimize intelligent traffic signal operations and timing plans to improve traffic flow and reduce congestion. Coordinate with Traffic Management Centers (TMC), City Operations, Security, emergency services, and other stakeholders during incidents and network disruptions. Support rapid response to road accidents, vehicle breakdowns, obstructions, and other incidents affecting network availability. Develop and implement traffic management measures to maintain safe and efficient movement during planned and unplanned disruptions. Conduct regular technical inspections and condition assessments of roads, pavements, intersections, and associated infrastructure. Identify pavement defects including cracking, potholes, rutting, settlement, surface deterioration, and other asset condition issues. Develop and coordinate preventive and corrective road maintenance programs based on asset condition, operational priority, and lifecycle requirements. Support planning and delivery of pavement rehabilitation, resurfacing, road marking, and associated maintenance activities. Monitor the condition and maintenance of road barriers, guardrails, street lighting, stormwater drainage, road markings, signage, and associated roadside assets. Coordinate maintenance activities to minimize disruption to traffic and maintain safe access throughout the network. Monitor contractors performing road, ITS, and associated infrastructure maintenance and verify compliance with approved SLAs, KPIs, specifications, and safety requirements. Develop and review Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) plans for construction activities, maintenance works, concerts, sporting events, festivals, and other major events. Plan safe diversions, detours, temporary lane closures, traffic control arrangements, and alternative access routes. Coordinate event traffic strategies with parking, public transport, security, emergency response, venue operations, and mobility teams. Assess road network capacity against anticipated event demand and identify potential congestion points before major events. Coordinate road network operations with parking arrival and departure strategies to reduce queuing and congestion around major destinations. Analyze historical and real-time traffic telemetry to identify recurring congestion zones, network bottlenecks, and operational improvement opportunities. Support integration of roadside ITS devices, traffic signals, CCTV, VMS, traffic detectors, and other smart mobility technologies. Coordinate integration of road and ITS systems with the central City Operations or Traffic Management platform. Support planning and operational readiness for connected, autonomous, and emerging mobility technologies where applicable. Develop and monitor network performance indicators covering traffic flow, congestion, incidents, asset condition, system availability, and maintenance performance. Maintain accurate road asset records, inspection findings, maintenance histories, incident logs, and operational data using GIS, CMMS, or asset management systems. Prepare technical reports, traffic assessments, dashboards, maintenance recommendations, and management presentations. Identify operational and asset-related risks and develop practical mitigation and improvement measures. Coordinate with Asset Management, Parking Operations, Public Transport, Facilities Management.