Associate Director - Water

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Job Description

Team Management

• Manages the water team within utilities department, coordinating activities of the engineering and technicians.
• The water team covers potable water, wastewater, irrigation and recycled water, storm water, firefighting, hydrology, water and wastewater treatment and district cooling.
• Responsibility for working with the teams leads and principals in managing the water
• team.
• Ensure effective communication of technical and business issues to all staff reporting to you, and the wider team.
• Accountable for the results of the water department and adherence to approved project budgets.
• Fully accountable for the team's utilisation targets.
• Performs various management, leadership, and people accountability responsibilities for the water team.
• Supports business change management initiatives (i.e., quality management, BIM, project excellence) mandated by senior leadership.
• Recruits, trains, mentors, and evaluates the staff within the department.

Technical Delivery Management

• Responsible for independently resolving all technical and managerial matters about the engineering issues within the water department.
• Must have solid understanding of all water infrastructure and non infrastructure elements within the projects.
• Extensive experience of working on land development projects covering master planning stages to detailed design.
• Conducts peer reviews, lead verifications and shares knowledge through internal technical presentations and standards development.
• Provide technical expertise in terms of quantity, quality and cost to assess whether targets have been achieved and determine where improvements and efficiencies can be achieved.
• Can perform technical quality reviews including documentation in project record in accordance with policies and procedures and approves and signs off on work.
• Serves as Lead Verifier (where required), confirming that the technical approach satisfies the client scope of services and expectations. Approves and signs off work.
• Technical Coordination with Authorities for approvals of schemes.
• Leading digital transformation strategy and implementation and embracing the change within the Discipline.
• Plans and develops engineering tasks concerned with unique or controversial problems. This involves exploration of a subject area, the definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Excellent presentation and report writing skills. Must have experience of delivering presentations to senior personnel.

Project Management

• Act as project manager on large and/or complex projects.
• Drives a culture of financial responsibility ensuring maximum profitability.
• Has solid understanding of project delivery requirements and is well versed with project management techniques.
• Understand and apply the principles of risk and value management and use risk and value-based thinking to make project level decisions.

Business Development

• Actively involved with clients and leads business development initiatives, participating in the preparation of major bids and proposals on the commercial and technical side.
• Actively involved with clients and supports business development initiatives.
• Externally recognised as a leader in one or more elements of technical discipline.
• Applies acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges and develops the technical strategy for proposals within the area of expertise.
• Advises local management on growth, staff recruitment and retention, and technical excellence strategies.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 18 years experience, with at least 10 years in large international engineering consultancy
• Bachelors or Masters degree in civil engineering or relevant discipline.
• Chartered or PE status.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10118350

Business Line: Water

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: On-Site

Legal Entity: AECOM MIDDLE EAST LIMITED ABU DHABI