Wet Utilities Lead

Let’s start with our vision: water, energy and urbanization made sustainable for generations to come.

With more than 14,000 people around the globe GHD is a leading engineering, architecture and environmental consulting firm. With our vision to make water, energy and urbanization sustainable for generations to come, GHD delivers iconic projects that shape our landscapes, support our communities and set the path of our collective future.

Wet Utilities Lead

The wet utilities lead is ultimately responsible for technical delivery of projects under thier specific discipline (Wet infrastructure). The Wet utilities lead possesses excellent communication skills and champions technical competencies.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Understands the wet utilities design and can independently carry out engineering calculations (when needed) for basic wet utilities design. However, will be responsible mainly for QA and providing guidance/mentorship to graduate junior engineers
• Is fully capable of leading complex wet utilities design, inclusive of modelling (such as Bentley WaterCAD etc,), calculations, markups and specifications. Responsible for providing guidance/mentorship to senior engineers
• Able to develop engineered solutions for linear infrastructures, dynamic models for the following services Stormwater, Stormwater pumping stations, gravity networks, rising mains, sewage pumping stations, irrigation networks, potable networks, potable pump stations, basic effluent treatment, stormwater retention systems
• Have sound understanding of authorities approval process and ability to gain approvals on your own design outputs
• Must have the ability to estimate accurate hours required to complete specific tasks
• Confident in allocating workload to junior engineers whilst maintaining a self utilisation of minimum 85%
• Manage the achievement of utilisation targets, maximizing financial performance through effective performance conversations and active leave management;
• Responsible for ensuring we have the ‘right’ technical capability at set-up and these resources are committed for the duration of the project;
• Collaborate with Technical Service Leaders, and contribute to Delivery; Transformation initiatives, to drive continuous efficiency and quality improvements through the Service Group;
• Support Business Group Leader and Technical Service Leader with recruitment of new capabilities aligned with strategy.
• Must have basic understanding of road design to support the traffic, roads and landscape teams in developing cross sections and alignments which are fully coordinated with wet and dry utilities
• Must have basic understanding of dry utilities design to enable design coordination
Understanding of BIM modelling environment and Civil 3D and the challenges faced by modelling te

Note: This role is a technical leadership role and is most suited for engineers who would like to pursue a technical career path where technical delivery of projects remains at the forefront of their growth. This role offers significant career growth, with the possibility of being promoted to a technical director. If your aspirations are for other forms of leadership, please do not apply for this position.

To be successful in this role, you will posses:

• Proven experience in delivering infrastructure projects with consultant fee value exceeding 10m AED (with Wet utilities portion of the overall fee exceeding 2m AED)
• Provide experience in independently delivering infrastructure projects within UAE
• Proven experience in achieving project performance and utilization targets.
• Excellent understanding of authorities approvals process
• Strong record of delivering technical excellence.
• Strong communication skills;
• Strong relationship building and influencing skills;
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills (if you are able to demonstrate succession planning this will be highly valued)
• Relevant technical background and experience

Interested? Apply now.