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Design Manager (Marine)

Wsp In The Middle East 🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Onsite Full-time Manager

Lead the design lifecycle for marine, port, and coastal infrastructure projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating with clients, consultants, and regulators. Oversee design quality, compliance, schedules, budgets, and risk, and support procurement and construction through technical guidance and design clarifications.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design lifecycle for marine, port, and coastal infrastructure projects, managing multidisciplinary teams and coordinating with clients, consultants, and regulators. Oversee design quality, compliance, schedules, budgets, and risk, and support procurement and construction through technical guidance and design clarifications.

Requirements

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree in Civil, Marine, or Structural Engineering, with a master’s degree preferred, at least 15 years of relevant experience, and five or more years in a leadership role. Candidates must hold PE or Chartered Engineer registration and have strong knowledge of maritime standards and UAE regulations, project delivery, stakeholder management, and relevant design and BIM software.

Key Skills

Leadership of marine design teams Multidisciplinary coordination Design quality assurance Compliance with maritime standards Schedule and budget control Risk management Procurement support Construction guidance Design clarification Stakeholder management BIM software AutoCAD Civil 3D Marine engineering standards UAE regulatory knowledge Project delivery Technical documentation

About Wsp In The Middle East

As one of the world's leading professional services firms, we unite our engineering, advisory and science-based expertise to make a positive impact. We operate in over 50 countries with the collective brilliance of over 83,000 colleagues worldwide. Our ambitious, passionate and innovative WSP VISIONEERS bring global Future Ready® thinking and technical know-how, to power local solutions. ​ ​ With a Middle East team of 3000+ delivering innovative solutions across transportation and infrastructure, property and buildings, earth and environment, power and energy, resources and industry sectors. ​ ​ #WeAreWSP

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