Key Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for ensuring the technical compliance of the project with the Contract.
• Lead the overall design process, including Basic Design, Detailed Design, As-Built documentation and Operation & Maintenance manuals.
• Plan and lead construction methodology development, ensuring proposed construction tools, methods and processes are technically appropriate.
• Supervise and coordinate Design Managers and the wider Design & Engineering Team.
• Lead design coordination meetings and establish an effective project engineering organisation.
• Establish design budgets, monitor variances and contribute to coordination across the Project Management Team.
• Establish procedures for design and document control, project reviews, technical meetings, clarifications and design changes.
• Drive design optimisation to achieve cost-effective and programme-efficient construction solutions.
• Identify deviations and implement appropriate corrective actions.
• Manage technical interfaces between engineering offices, designers, independent checkers, authorities, consortium partners and client representatives.
• Define technical staffing and resource requirements and lead recruitment and management of the project technical team.
• Assess and monitor design and engineering risks that could affect contractual milestones.
• Manage subcontracted engineering organisations, checking consultants, construction drawings, methodologies, material requisitions and technical non-conformities.
• Establish and manage design deliverable schedules, inspections, testing requirements, standards libraries, as-built procedures and final technical documentation.
• Lead the project's engineering roadmap, design milestones, engineering checks, change requests, construction drawing verification and technical hold points.
• Provide regular technical reporting and recommendations to the Project Director and senior project leadership.

Required Competencies & Skills

• Technical leadership of multidisciplinary design and engineering functions on major EPC infrastructure projects.
• Strong design coordination, interface management, constructability and engineering-review capability.
• Experience managing engineering budgets, programme milestones and technical risk.
• Knowledge of document control, standards, inspections, testing, as-built documentation and final technical files.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with clients, consultants, independent checkers, authorities, construction teams and subcontracted design organisations.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between engineering, procurement, construction methodology and project delivery.

Required Experience

• Senior Technical Director, Engineering Director, Design Director or equivalent experience on major EPC or Design & Build infrastructure programmes.
• Significant experience managing multidisciplinary engineering and design teams.
• Practical experience optimising design and construction methodologies on major Design & Build contracts.
• Experience in one or more of the following is particularly relevant:
• Large-scale desalination / SWRO facilities
• Long-distance water transmission pipelines
• Major pumping stations and reservoirs
• Integrated water supply and conveyance schemes
• Water or wastewater treatment plants
• Hydropower or major hydraulic infrastructure
• Oil & gas pipelines and pumping/compressor stations
• Industrial or process plants
• Major power or energy infrastructure
• Strong process plant and electromechanical equipment experience.
• Previous experience on major international projects in the Middle East or comparable markets would be advantageous
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