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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

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Job Description

Team Management

• Manages the energy team within utilities department, coordinating activities of the engineers and technicians.

• The energy team covers typical power infrastructure work, instrumentation and control for process mechanical, extra low voltage design covering security, ITS, ICT etc.

• Responsibility for working with the teams leads and principals in managing the energy team.

• Ensure effective communication of technical and business issues to all staff reporting to you, and the wider team.

• Accountable for the performance of the energy discipline department and adherence to approved project budgets.

• Fully accountable for the team's utilisation targets.

• Performs various management, leadership, and people accountability responsibilities for the energy team.

• Supports business change management initiatives (i.e., quality management, BIM, project excellence) mandated by senior leadership.

• Recruits, trains, mentors, and evaluates the staff within the department.

Technical Delivery Management

• Responsible for independently resolving all technical and managerial matters about the engineering issues within the energy department.

• Must have solid understanding of power infrastructure networks (HV/MV/LV), Controls and instrumentation as well as Extra low voltage.

• Extensive experience of working on land development projects covering master planning stages to detailed design.

• Identifies trends, issues, and opportunities for their area of the business, industry, service line or process.

• Conducts peer reviews, lead verifications and shares knowledge through internal technical presentations and standards development.

• Provide high level technical expertise in terms of quantity, quality, and cost to assess whether targets have been achieved and determine where improvements and efficiencies can be achieved.

• Can perform technical quality reviews including documentation in project record in accordance with policies and procedures and approves and signs off on work.

• Serves as Lead Verifier (where required), confirming that the technical approach satisfies the client scope of services and expectations. Approves and signs off work.

• Technical Coordination with Authorities for approvals of projects.

• Leading digital transformation strategy and implementation and embracing the change within the Discipline.

• Plans and develops engineering tasks concerned with unique or controversial problems. This involves exploration of a subject area, the definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.

• Excellent presentation and report writing skills. Must have experience of delivering presentations to senior personnel.

Project Management

• Act as project manager on large and/or complex projects.

• Drives a culture of financial responsibility ensuring maximum profitability.

• Has solid understanding of project delivery requirements and is well versed with project management techniques.

• Understand and apply the principles of risk and value management and use risk and value-based thinking to make project level decisions.

Business Development

• Actively involved with clients and leads business development initiatives, participating in the preparation of major bids and proposals on the commercial and technical side.

• Actively involved with clients and supports business development initiatives.

• Externally recognised as a leader in one or more elements of technical discipline.

• Applies acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges and develops the technical strategy for proposals within the area of expertise.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 17 years’ experience, with at least 10 years being in large international engineering consultancy and 5 years in technical leadership role.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in electrical engineering or relevant

• Chartered Engineer or PE

Additional Information

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10116243

Business Line: Transportation

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: ME and Africa

Career Area: Engineering

Work Location Model: On-Site

Legal Entity: AECOM MIDDLE EAST LIMITED ABU DHABI