Manager - Road and Highway Design

Role Overview

Manager - Road and Highway Design at AD Ports Group, based in Abu Dhabi. This role ensures all roadway designs, alignments, access points, and mobility solutions comply with AD Ports' development standards, DMT regulations, and infrastructure requirements.

Role Purpose

The position supports the one-stop approval process by providing expert engineering evaluation, resolving design issues, and coordinating with authorities and stakeholders to ensure safe, efficient, and integrated road networks.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Review & Compliance

• Lead technical review of all road and highway design submissions, ensuring compliance with AD Ports' development standards, DMT regulations, and national roadway design guidelines.
• Review geometric design, road cross sections, horizontal and vertical alignments, pavement design, junction layouts, access points, and mobility strategies to ensure safe and efficient traffic movement.
• Interpret alignment drawings, pavement design reports, traffic analyses, utilities layouts, and right-of-way maps from a road and highway design perspective.
• Evaluate geometric alignments, sight distances, cross-sections, and road safety elements using design standards and engineering tools.

Traffic & Access Management

• Evaluate traffic impact studies, access management plans, vehicle circulation, turning radii, parking layouts, and public transport integration for proposed developments.
• Review submissions related to plot access, driveway permits, heavy-vehicle movement, logistics routes, and industrial traffic requirements.
• Analyze road safety considerations including visibility, pedestrian crossings, intersection control, speed-calming measures, and site-specific constraints.

Infrastructure & Connectivity

• Assess connectivity to existing road networks, ensuring appropriate tie-ins, right-of-way allocations, and alignment with master-plan infrastructure requirements.
• Review and coordinate utility corridor layouts within road reserves, ensuring adequate space allocation for wet and dry utilities according to authority standards.

Sustainability & Urban Design

• Ensure all road and highway designs incorporate sustainability, walkability, shade structures, universal access, and multimodal mobility considerations.
• Coordinate with planning, urban design, infrastructure, and environmental teams to ensure integrated development solutions throughout master-planned areas.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Provide technical comments and recommendations to developers, consultants, and internal stakeholders to resolve design issues and improve road network functionality.
• Participate in stakeholder and authority meetings, providing professional input on road layouts, transport planning, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Conduct design review workshops to resolve technical issues related to road geometry, traffic impacts, utilities interfaces, and access management.
• Provide consultants with clear technical comments, design directions, and requirements for revisions and authority submissions.

Consultant & Project Management

• Coordinate with roads, transport, traffic engineering, and infrastructure consultants to ensure accurate, compliant, and well-integrated road-network proposals.
• Manage consultant deliverables from concept stage through detailed design, ensuring timelines, quality, and regulatory alignment.
• Support leadership with roadway diagrams, circulation studies, and layout alternatives to facilitate decision-making and approvals.

Compliance & Process Improvement

• Monitor updates to road design standards, traffic regulations, DMT manuals, and best practices, ensuring AD Ports' review processes remain compliant.
• Prepare technical reports, review summaries, and approval recommendations for internal decision-making and external authority submissions.
• Support improvements to the design-review workflow by ensuring clear, timely, and coordinated responses to developers and consultants.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Civil Engineering or an associated field; Master's Degree or equivalent preferred.
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or an associated field; Master's Degree or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Urban Planning with a multi-discipline approach.
• Minimum 5 years of local experience.

Skills & Competencies

• Proficiency with road-design software and tools including AutoCAD, Civil 3D, vehicle-swept-path analysis software, GIS, and traffic modeling tools to review and assess design submissions.
• Written and spoken English is essential; Arabic is preferred.