Senior Design Manager - Infrastructure - #16641

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Robust infrastructure establishes the backbone of productive, economically strong communities as assets essential to commerce, trade, public safety, and quality of life.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Design Manager with a robust hands-on design background to lead our multi-disciplined design team in Jeddah. If you have a proven track record in major infrastructure or ground development projects, along with expertise in coordinating and leading multi-disciplined design services, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team. Responsibilities include:

• Provide hands-on leadership in the development and implementation of design strategies for major infrastructure projects, encompassing roads, power, wet utilities, and dry utilities
• Lead and coordinate a multi-disciplined design team, fostering collaboration and innovation within the team to ensure seamless integration of design across various infrastructure disciplines
• Take responsibility for the overall design direction, ensuring alignment with project objectives, client requirements, and design principles
• Collaborate closely with clients to understand their design expectations, and provide solutions that meet and exceed project aspirations
• Optimize the allocation of resources, both human and technical, to enhance design efficiency and meet project timelines
• Identify potential design risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure the successful and timely delivery of projects
• Collaborate with all other disciplines to ensure the work is fully coordinated across the site/sites, integrating programme requirements for a world class site development

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a related field. Master's degree is a plus
• Minimum of 15 years of hands-on design experience, with a significant portion in a leadership role
• Proven track record of leading multi-disciplined design teams on major infrastructure or ground development projects
• Strong technical proficiency in design software and tools
• Excellent leadership and team management skills
• Middle East experience in designing infrastructure projects is highly preferred
• Comprehensive understanding of primary infrastructure disciplines such as roads, power, wet utilities, and dry utilities, along with design principles
• Have an understanding of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the coordination process
• Be an excellent communicator with design professionals and with local authorities
• Have previous experience managing infrastructure design teams and projects
• Ideally have discipline specific professional registration (PMP, PMI, ICE, RICS)

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