Engineering Interface Department Manager (HQ)
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About the Role
Hill International seeks an Engineering Interface Department Manager to oversee design and engineering coordination across water and wastewater projects in Riyadh. The role involves managing design consultants, ensuring alignment with project master plans, and securing permits.
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Responsibilities
- Oversee and coordinate all design and engineering activities across projects
- Coordinate with Technical Design teams to align design delivery schedule with master schedule
- Monitor performance of Design Consultant(s) for correctness and completeness
- Control and manage Senior Discipline Engineers with respect to Design aspects
- Evaluate and endorse variation orders/concession requests for Client's approval
- Attend meetings with Design Consultant(s) and Client
- Review project design strategy and make recommendations to client
- Ensure timely submissions of documents to government departments for permits
- Ensure consultant delivers tender documents as per tendering plan
- Provide necessary project input data to technical design consultants
- Develop and rectify department operating structure and tools
Requirements
- Bachelor / Master of Engineering from an accredited university
- Minimum 20 years experience in water and wastewater projects design and engineering works and project management
- Knowledge of water and wastewater master plan
- Excellent project management skills
- Experience in working with or management engineering consultants works
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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Job Description
- This role is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all design and engineering activities across projects, ensuring alignment of scope, schedules, and deliverables with the overall project master plan.
- It involves close coordination with technical design teams and consultants to ensure timely, accurate, and complete design outputs that meet project requirements.
- The position includes monitoring the performance of design consultants, managing discipline engineers, and reviewing design strategies to provide recommendations to the client.
- It also covers the evaluation of variation orders, participation in key stakeholder meetings, and ensuring all necessary permits and approvals are secured from relevant authorities.
- Additionally, the role ensures the timely delivery of tender documentation, provides technical input to consultants, and supports forward planning of project requirements.
- A key aspect is improving departmental structure, processes, and tools in line with international best practices, while maintaining compliance with quality, safety, and organizational standards.
Responsibilities
- The responsibility covers all the necessary interfaces and coordination of the design and engineering works managed to ensure the alignment of the scope and schedule of all projects.
- Coordinate with the Technical Design teams to ensure the alignment of their design delivery schedule is aligned with a master schedule of project delivery.
- Monitor the performance of the Design Consultant(s) to ensure the Design's correctness and completeness as well as compliance with the scope of work requirements.
- Control and manage Senior Discipline Engineers of the Project Management Team with respect to Design aspects.
- Evaluate and endorse variation orders/concession requests submitted by the Design Consultant(s) for the Client's approval.
- Attend all meetings with the Design Consultant(s), his sub consultants and Client's Meetings.
- Review project design strategy and make recommendations to the client.
- Assist, monitor, and ensure timely submissions of all documents from the Design Consultant(s) to all government departments until obtaining the final permits necessary to proceed with the works until completion.
- Ensure that the consultant delivers tender documents as per the tendering plan.
- Provide necessary project input data to the technical design consultants.
- Regularly update the technical department on future project requirements.
- Development and rectification of department operating structure [Org. Chart, Roles, Responsibilities] as well tools to be deployed [software, apply Int’l best practice].
Qualifications
- Bachelor / Master of Engineering or from an accredited university.
- Minimum 20 years experience in water and wastewater projects design and engineering works and project management.
- Knowledge of water and wastewater master plan.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Experience in working with or management engineering consultants works.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
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