Engineer - Wet Utilities
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Overview
Want to work with the most sought-after minds and most talked-about projects?
Your interest in Infrastructure might just make you our new
Wet Utilities Engineer.
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with.
From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world.
From our reputation to our relationships.
Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.
Your next role
Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive.
You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter.
All of Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing.
This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy.
Your key duties
We are seeking a skilled
Wet Utilities Engineer
to join our infrastructure team in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
In this role, you will contribute to the design, analysis, and implementation of road infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with standards and delivering quality results
Responsibilities
- Assisting on the design and planning of wet utility-related projects, which includes designing water, wastewater, and stormwater networks, water and wastewater transmission pipelines, coordinating utilities, investigating stormwater, documenting systems, updating models, supporting stormwater drainage, and handling cross-connections, hydraulic and hydrological modelling, etc.
- Ensure the design complies with all relevant codes and regulations.
- Be knowledgeable about Water, Irrigation, Firefighting, Road Administration Authority regulations.
- Collaborate with other design disciplines.
- Establish a profile in the industry and stay updated with innovations and developments.
- Collaborate with various stakeholders such as municipalities, city development offices, and transport administrations.
- Assist in various aspects of the project, including updating water system models and designing sewage and stormwater installations.
- Ensure the design and implementation of water and pressure waste networks, including utility coordination of existing installations.
- Working on the delivery of multidisciplinary projects, with technical inputs from numerous disciplines, including transport, energy, sustainability, and building engineers
- Preparing designs, drawings, technical reports, specification, and schedules.
Your Skills And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related field.
- Experience of masterplan engineering (Potable water, Sewerage, Storm water drainage, Firefighting and Irrigation) as well as an awareness of applying the principles of sustainability to infrastructure engineering
- A desire to show continuous quality improvement in our work
- Good IT skills including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Civil3D, Bentley Water/SewerGems, EPANET and Microdrainage
- Degree in Civil Engineering and a Master’s degree from a reputed institute
What We Offer You
- Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary and benefits package
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
- At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.
- Apply today and be a part of our legacy.
- A place for everyone
- Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance.
- We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
- Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us.
- Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
- We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry.
- We have much to learn from one another.
- Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
- Please let us know if there are any adjustments, we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you.
- Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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