Discipline Manager (Water Features)

Role Overview

Discipline Manager (Water Features) at AtkinsRéalis. This role leads the planning, design, coordination, and delivery of water feature systems across landscape, hospitality, mixed-use, public realm, and large-scale development projects.

Company Overview

AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. We work with industry partners, clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Role Purpose

The Discipline Manager provides technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams, ensuring innovative, sustainable, and operationally efficient water feature solutions that meet client, regulatory, and project requirements. The role oversees design quality, resource management, stakeholder engagement, and project execution from concept through construction and commissioning.

Key Responsibilities

Discipline Leadership

• Lead and manage the water features discipline across multiple projects and design stages.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineers, designers, and project teams.
• Maintain strong client relationships and act as the primary technical authority for water feature-related matters.

Design & Technical Oversight

• Oversee the design of decorative fountains, interactive water features, waterfalls, ponds, lakes, water walls, and special aquatic systems.
• Ensure designs comply with applicable codes, safety standards, environmental regulations, and client requirements.
• Review and approve design calculations, technical specifications, drawings, reports, and construction documentation.
• Develop innovative and sustainable water feature solutions that optimize water usage, energy efficiency, and operational performance.

Coordination & Stakeholder Management

• Coordinate with landscape architects, civil engineers, MEP engineers, structural engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Coordinate with suppliers, specialist contractors, and manufacturers regarding equipment selection and technical requirements.
• Maintain strong client relationships and act as the primary technical authority for water feature-related matters.

Project & Resource Management

• Manage discipline resources, budgets, schedules, and project deliverables to ensure timely completion.
• Conduct design reviews, value engineering exercises, and risk assessments.
• Support procurement activities through technical evaluations, tender reviews, and contractor assessments.

Construction & Commissioning

• Monitor construction activities and provide technical support during installation, testing, commissioning, and handover phases.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, technical innovation, and adoption of best practices within the discipline.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Water Engineering, Landscape Architecture, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10–15 years of experience in water feature design, engineering, and project delivery, including leadership experience.
• Proven experience delivering complex water feature projects within hospitality, mixed-use, theme park, public realm, landscape, or master-planned developments.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering and design teams.
• Professional Engineer (PE), Chartered Engineer (CEng), PMP, or equivalent professional certification is an advantage.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong technical knowledge of hydraulic systems, pumps, filtration systems, water treatment, piping networks, and control systems.
• Experience in the design and operation of fountains, lakes, waterfalls, interactive water features, and aquatic systems.
• Familiarity with international water feature design standards, health and safety regulations, and sustainability requirements.
• Proficiency in engineering and design software such as AutoCAD, Revit, BIM platforms, and hydraulic modeling tools.
• Strong project management, budgeting, scheduling, and resource planning capabilities.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and presentation skills.
• Ability to identify and resolve complex technical challenges throughout the project lifecycle.

Additional Information

Contract & Employment

• Worker Type: Employee
• Job Type: Regular

Benefits

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation and housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Diversity & Inclusion

AtkinsRéalis seeks to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.