DAMS Technical Solutions Consultant
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Key Responsibilities
- Assess the condition, reliability, and operational performance of dams and associated assets.
- Develop technical studies, engineering reports, and practical solutions to improve dam operating systems.
- Review operating philosophies, systems, procedures, technical standards, designs, calculations, and contractor submissions.
- Provide multidisciplinary engineering advice across civil, hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control systems.
- Recommend rehabilitation, upgrade, replacement, and optimization solutions for critical dam assets.
- Maintain technical databases, asset registers, and engineering information systems and verify technical information quality.
- Assess critical asset condition and operational risks and measure reliability and performance against agreed KPIs and service levels.
- Conduct root-cause analysis and develop corrective and preventive recommendations, monitoring their implementation.
- Support operations and maintenance manuals, procedures, technical guidelines, and maintenance strategies.
- Review contractor performance, monitor strategic improvement initiatives, and promote suitable technologies and recognized practices.
- Prepare daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and technical reports and present findings, risks, and recommendations.
- Coordinate with stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and engineering teams and attend meetings, inspections, and site visits in Saudi Arabia.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in civil, hydraulic, water resources, electrical, mechanical, or another dam-related engineering discipline from a recognized university.
- Relevant master’s degree from a recognized university.
- Minimum 16 years of professional experience in dam operations and maintenance, water-system design, or water-infrastructure project management.
- Demonstrated experience developing technical solutions for dams, water-retaining structures, or associated infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of dam operating systems, maintenance requirements, asset condition assessment, and risk reduction.
- Experience reviewing engineering designs, technical reports, calculations, specifications, and contractor submissions.
- Ability to analyze complex multidisciplinary technical problems and recommend practical solutions.
- Strong technical-reporting, presentation, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
- Relevant experience must be supported by verifiable employment records, project references, technical reports, or studies when requested.
Preferred Experience
- At least 8 years of experience leading multidisciplinary technical or engineering teams.
- Experience managing or advising on large dam portfolios or national water-infrastructure programs.
- Previous experience with government or public-sector clients in Saudi Arabia.
- Experience in dam rehabilitation, asset optimization, instrumentation, monitoring, and emergency-response planning.
- Familiarity with international dam-safety standards and recognized engineering practices.
- Knowledge of asset-management systems, computerized maintenance management systems, and technical databases.
- Professional engineering registration and membership of a recognized engineering institution.
- Registration with the Saudi Council of Engineers where applicable.
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