Principal Drainage Engineer

Doha, Qatar

Principal Drainage Engineer

What You'll Be Doing

• Civil and Transport infrastructure drainage design.
• Detailed analysis and review of hydrological and hydraulic models.
• Provide technical design expertise for drainage and stormwater quality systems, including piped networks and major transverse drainage structures. Embrace and promote a leading digital work environment and delivery culture
• Hydraulic and System design of the complex environment to meet site-specific requirements.
• Applying knowledge and experience of the biological and physical process of stormwater management.
• Applying innovative ideas, technology, and value engineering solutions
• Supervision/Mentoring and support to intermediate and junior engineers including taking responsibility for the QA/QC of deliverables.
• Undertake hydrologic modeling, calculations, drawings, report writing, design review, and supervision.
• Leading the projects, taking a high level of responsibility, acting as a project lead and building a strong relationship with clients, and obtaining design approvals.
• Coordinating with the CAD / BIM / 3-D modeling teams on projects.br

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Civil/ Hydraulic/ Hydrology/ Water and/or Environmental Engineering.
• Minimum 12 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, HEC RAS, and HEC-HMS knowledge
• Experience with Infoworks ICM, 1D/2D is compulsory.
• Excellent command with GIS and CAD tools such as ArcMap, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Microstation.
• The capability of mathematics to create calculation sheets and perform further calculations where required to ensure the design is appropriate.
• Knowledge of Water Sensitive Design and Sustainable Drainage Design (SuDS).
• 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.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and encourage collaboration
• Ability to handle multiple projects and deliver results within the project timeline.br

What Desired Skills You'll Bring

• A Master's degree in Water Engineering/Hydrology would be an advantage
• Experience working in Doha and wider GCC countries, including a knowledge of local standards and processes
• Hands-on experience in the automation of design workflows including tools such as large language model (AI chatbots), python, ruby script, VBA, dynamo, grasshopper