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Job description / Role
Principal Engineer/Design Manager - Water Group - Dubai, UAE
- Deliver design projects involving municipal and industrial water/wastewater while managing multi-discipline teams to bring innovative solutions to industrial water/wastewater challenges.
- Ensure the best technical and business solutions for our client and integration of industrial subject matter and service expertise.
- Assemble and lead the project team
- Allocate resources where appropriate to achieve the safety, time, cost, scope and quality objectives of projects
- Manage and drive multi-discipline project delivery; ensure compliance with overall project objectives
- Serve as primary interface between our project team and project manager, conveying technical, schedule, and project performance information in a timely and professional manner.
- Develop and manage man-hour estimates and project schedules to complete work. Plan and coordinate work sequence with disciplines for productive and timely completion of all discipline work.
- Facilitate project performance and budget monitoring & reporting (internally).
- Manage change and document change management.
- Support project quality management plan implementation and documentation.
- Support services which include idea generation, permitting and compliance, selection, and implementation of water/wastewater treatment technology specific to our client's needs.
- Facilitate project design reviews, internal reviews and meetings, while assisting the project manager with schedule updates, estimates to complete, and monthly reports.
- Drive ownership of health & safety in all aspects of project execution, office and personal environments.
- Lead in the identification of variances from plan, develop solutions, and initiate corrective action
- Manage competing demands
- Assist in developing Total Installed Cost estimates
Other responsibilities
- Overall leadership of team of water and civil engineers
- Responsibility for overall productivity, quality and cost effectiveness of delivery team
- Overall responsibility for development of team
- Resource allocation
- Provides broad technical or functional guidance and leadership to others
- Liaison with project managers from other parts of the region and other markets to ensure appropriate staffing for all water inputs to projects
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Environmental or Civil Engineering or closely related science discipline
- 15 - 20 years competency in working with municipal and industrial clients in engineering or project engineer roles on water / wastewater projects
- 15 - 20 years experience working with and understanding the delivery process of all disciplines in the sequence and development of project deliverables
- 15 20 years experience in written and verbal communication of project plans and presentations
- 5 10 years experience in leading multidisciplinary teams
- Experience in the design of gravity and pressurized pipelines and systems
- Experience in the design of water and wastewater pumping and treatment facilities
- Adept at interpersonal relationship building and conflict resolution
- Must be willing to travel to meet project needs
In addition to the basic qualifications we also desire the following:
- Master's degree in Environmental or Civil Engineering or closely related science discipline
- Minimum 20 years experience with water or wastewater treatment
- Experience of working with with industrial clients
- Experience in execution of conceptual through detailed design and construction support for municipal and industrial projects (EPC project experience a plus)
- Ability to accurately evaluate levels of completeness of various discipline deliverables and whether or not they are meeting scope of work requirements
- Field and Construction Experience
- Certified PMP
- Middle East experience
About the Company
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