Principal Drainage Design Engineer

The Role

• Provide leadership to a team of Wet Utility Engineers and Draftsmen.
• Provide the technical guidance, supervision, quality assurance and quality control for all deliverables.
• Schedule and manage the team’s daily activities.
• Prepare delivery forecasts and estimates.
• Ensure that deliverables meet contractual requirements.
• Coordinate with the Project Manager for the project requirements and expectations.
• Represent the discipline in all internal and external meetings.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Undertake staff improvement (e.g. trainings and lessons-learnt sessions) and assess employee performance.
• Manage project scope change, scope creep and other contractual matters
• Undertake process improvements towards better work efficiency. Requirements
• Minimum Bachelors Degree in Civil Engineering.
• Masters Degree is preferred but not essential.
• Familiarity with Ashghal Guidelines and Standards is preferred, but knowledge in other similar standards (e.g. British / European) can be considered.
• Minimum 15 years solid experience in the field of surface water drainage design, groundwater network design, foul sewer network design, treated sewage effluent design and potable water network design.
• Solid knowledge in gravity and pressurized networks design for the different stages of design development (i.e. concept, preliminary and detailed).
• Solid knowledge in gravity and pressurized network modelling in StormCAD, SewerCAD, WaterCAD, SewerGEMS and WaterGEMS. Knowledge in the use of Infoworks 1D and 2D will be an advantage.
• Knowledgeable in the preparation of reports, calculations, presentations, cost estimates, life cycle cost analyses, value engineering, environment and sustainability.
• Proven leadership and work management skills.
• Proven ability to interface with internal and external entities.
• Proven oral and written communication skills, and results driven. Required areas of Technical Expertise :
• Gravity and Pressurized Networks Design
• Hydrologic and Hydraulic Studies and Modelling
• Master Plan Development
• Design Development
• Stakeholder Management
• Work Planning and Resource Management
• Tender Documentation & Evaluation Required Technical Skills :
• MS Office (e.g. word, excel and powerpoint)
• AutoCAD, AutoCAD Civil 3D
• Bentley WaterGEMS , Bentley SewerGEMS, StormCAD, SewerCAD, Water CAD
• Infoworks ICM (1D and 2D)
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