Senior Coastal Engineer

Job description / Role

• Assist the Head of Engineering in design and evaluation of tender proposal and/or project design
• Respond qualitative and timely to coastal engineering questions/ assignments related to bid submissions
• Support the development of cost efficient (alternative) designs and solutions for coastal works (revetments, breakwaters, quay walls)
• Review and identify the need for verification of tender/project design and propose value engineered concept solutions if applicable
• Support the tender team to adapt the construction methodology to the most suitable design, if applicable
• Supporting preparation of the full engineering data package required for commencement of detailed design / design verification / FEED endorsement and participating in answering on-going clarifications/queries as needed, taking into account client needs
• Collect and/or purchase metocean data (hindcast, forecast, measurements) for the evaluation of coastal processes and project site conditions
• Determine weather downtime calculation procedures for NMDC maritime fleet
• Proactively communicate with Project Managers as support to the Engineering Manager on projects
• Acting in the capacity to support the Engineering Manager in the development of the contractor design and / or major re-design works that arise during construction.
• Providing guidance, direction and briefing to the coastal engineers and graduates
• Assisting the Engineering Manager in the review and checking appropriate resource and costs utilization by consultants
• Develop design drawings and specifications for construction projects
• Ensure correct design approach as per QA/QC procedure and standards
• Assisting in the optimisation of all research and development activities related to coastal engineering
• Stay up to date with respect to knowledge in order to improve engineering capabilities within the company.

Requirements

Educational Qualifications & Certifications:
• Master degree in Coastal Engineering or Civil Engineering or equivalent professional qualification

Function specific experience:
• Coastal engineering
• Coastal dynamics and sediment transport
• Port engineering
• Numerical modelling
• Physical modelling
• Design experience
• Marine construction
• Marine field measurements

Industry related experience:
• Dredging and Reclamation
• Marine construction
• Costal Design
• Port and Harbour

Behavioural skills:
• Able to manage personnel with different cultural backgrounds.
• Motivate and inspire colleagues to develop knowledge, skills and competencies. Provide objective and constructive feedback in an appropriate way.
• Stimulate a result-oriented organizational culture by regularly sharing the division's performance and results.
• Able to translate department targets into concrete and measurable goals for the division for a timely achievement of goals.
• Take ownership of own objectives.
• Investigate, understand and respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders. Build and maintain strategically important client relations.
• Proactively serve and constructively respond to external client needs in order to meet business priorities.
• Show respect, flexibility and loyalty towards colleagues throughout the organization.
• Collaborate constructively and effectively with all levels within and outside the organization orally and in writing. Actively listen and be persuasive in reasoning.
• Communicate clearly and succinctly orally and in writing. Adapt oral and written communication style to the audience.
• Manage conflict, solve problems and mediate between different interests of multiple stakeholders.
• Able to identify and mitigate risks within the scope of the division and related to other divisions/ department interfaces.
Language skills:
• Required: English
• Any other language is an asset

IT skills:
• MS Office
• Coastal engineering design tools
• Costal modelling software
• AutoCAD

About the Company

By way of a brief introduction to National Marine Dredging Company, in 1976 as a dredging division of ADNOC a board decision was taken to form an autonomous dredging company reporting to its own Board of Directors. NMDC was founded and commenced trading in its own right on 1st January 1980.

We are a National Company owned 40% by the Government of Abu Dhabi and 60% by UAE Nationals and registered as a public company trading on the Abu Dhabi stock exchange with a registered paid up capital asset value of Dhs 169,000,000-00. Currently our business is conducted from our modern premises which include multi-discipline workshops, slip ways and a fully support administration and technical departments located in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi with subsidiary office in Zayed the Second St, Abu Dhabi.