
Lead Drainage Engineer (Design)
- Doha, Qatar
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead the planning, design, and delivery of drainage and stormwater management systems for infrastructure and development projects.
- Manage and coordinate hydraulic and hydrological modelling, including flood risk assessments and drainage impact studies.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the project team, ensuring compliance with relevant design standards, codes, and best practices.
- Review, validate, and approve design calculations, drawings, and reports prepared by early and mid-career professionals.
- Develop and implement water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) solutions.
- Liaise with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities to secure project approvals and resolve technical issues.
- Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery.
- Mentor and develop team members, fostering technical capability and professional growth.
- Stay up to date with emerging drainage technologies, modelling tools, and industry regulations to enhance project outcomes.
- Hydraulic and System design of the complex environment to meet site-specific requirements.
- Apply innovative ideas, technology, and value engineering solutions.
- Undertake hydrologic modeling, calculations, drawings, report writing, design review, and supervision.
- Coordinating with the CAD / BIM / 3-D modeling teams on projects.
- A bachelor's degree in Civil/ Hydraulic/ Hydrology/ Water Engineering. A Master's degree in Water Engineering/Hydrology would be an advantage.
- Minimum 20 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, StormCAD, HEC-RAS, and HEC-HMS knowledge
- Experience with InfoWorks ICM, 1D/2D is compulsory.
- Excellent command with GIS and CAD tools such as ArcMap, QGIS, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Microstation.
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and encourage collaboration
- Ability to handle multiple projects and deliver results within the project timeline.
- 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.
- Preferably already hold MME Engineer Registration or must be attained within six months. Experience in Qatar and the Middle East is a plus.