Lead Drainage Engineer

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Job Description:

Lead Drainage Engineer (Design)

Doha, Qatar

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead the planning, design, and delivery of drainage and stormwater management systems for infrastructure and development projects.
• Manage and coordinate hydraulic and hydrological modelling, including flood risk assessments and drainage impact studies.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the project team, ensuring compliance with relevant design standards, codes, and best practices.
• Review, validate, and approve design calculations, drawings, and reports prepared by early and mid-career professionals.
• Develop and implement water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) solutions.
• Liaise with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities to secure project approvals and resolve technical issues.
• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering technical capability and professional growth.
• Stay up to date with emerging drainage technologies, modelling tools, and industry regulations to enhance project outcomes.
• Hydraulic and System design of the complex environment to meet site-specific requirements.
• Apply innovative ideas, technology, and value engineering solutions.
• Undertake hydrologic modeling, calculations, drawings, report writing, design review, and supervision.
• Coordinating with the CAD / BIM / 3-D modeling teams on projects.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• A bachelor's degree in Civil/ Hydraulic/ Hydrology/ Water Engineering. A Master's degree in Water Engineering/Hydrology would be an advantage.
• Minimum 20 years experience in water engineering, including stormwater drainage design in civil and transport projects, stormwater management, and planning.
• Sound knowledge of principles of hydrology and hydraulics.
• Demonstrated understanding of hydrologic and hydraulic modeling/design software packages used in the design of surface drainage, piped networks, cross drainage, and flood analysis, i.e., CAD skills, SWMM, StormCAD, HEC-RAS, and HEC-HMS knowledge
• Experience with InfoWorks ICM, 1D/2D is compulsory.
• Excellent command with GIS and CAD tools such as ArcMap, QGIS, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Microstation.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and encourage collaboration
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deliver results within the project timeline.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• A collegiate, team-player attitude
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) qualified (or equivalent) or well-progressed towards qualification.
• Preferably already hold MME Engineer Registration or must be attained within six months. Experience in Qatar and the Middle East is a plus.

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