Senior Drainage Engineer

Senior Drainage Engineer (Design) – Doha, Qatar

Job Description

Senior Drainage Engineer responsible for delivering comprehensive drainage design solutions in civil and transport infrastructure projects. Duties include hydraulic and hydrologic analysis, design review, mentoring junior staff, client liaison and ensuring design approvals.

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.
• Apply knowledge of the biological and physical processes of stormwater management.
• Apply innovative ideas, technology, and value engineering solutions.
• Supervision/mentoring and support to intermediate and junior engineers.
• Undertake hydrologic modeling, calculations, drawings, report writing, design review, and supervision.
• Lead projects, take a high level of responsibility, build strong relationships with clients, and obtain design approvals.
• Coordinate with CAD/BIM/3‑D modeling teams on projects.

Required Skills You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Hydraulic and/or Environmental Engineering discipline.
• Master’s Degree in Water Engineering/Hydrology would be an advantage.
• Minimum 10 years experience in water engineering, including stormwater drainage design in civil and transport projects, stormwater management, and planning.
• Minimum 6 years of Qatar/GCC experience is preferred.
• 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 of 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.

Desired Skills You’ll Bring

• Experience in client‑facing roles, taking leadership and ownership of design tasks.
• Hands‑on experience in the automation of design workflows including tools such as large language model (AI chatbots), python, ruby script, VBA, dynamo, grasshopper.

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