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Role Overview
Technical Director – Dry Utilities at WSP Middle East, located in Riyadh. This strategic leadership position leads and grows a high-performing utilities discipline within the Transport & Infrastructure business unit, supporting the delivery of large-scale infrastructure and masterplan land development projects across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar.
Company Overview
WSP is a global engineering consultancy with more than 69,000 employees working across communities worldwide. The Transport & Infrastructure business unit delivers large-scale infrastructure and masterplan land development projects in the Middle East region.
Role Purpose
Provide technical leadership, project oversight, and client engagement across all aspects of dry utilities and MEICA designs, including power, telecommunications, district cooling, gas, street lighting, and related systems. Balance technical excellence, commercial awareness, and stakeholder management to lead design, coordination, and delivery of utilities networks on complex infrastructure and land development projects.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Design
- Lead the design, coordination, and delivery of utilities networks across complex infrastructure and land development projects.
- Provide technical oversight and governance, ensuring designs comply with local authority standards including SEC, Saudi Telecom, MOE, and NWC where interfaces apply, and align with international best practices.
- Demonstrate awareness of Dubai and Abu Dhabi regulations.
- Drive innovation and value engineering initiatives to optimize project outcomes and cost efficiency.
- Ensure seamless integration of utilities with other disciplines.
- Ability to review and approve complex technical deliverables.
Stakeholder Management & Client Engagement
- Act as the primary technical point of contact for clients, authorities, and key stakeholders.
- Maintain good relationships with clients and establish communications with new clients to support business growth.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, supporting business development and repeat work opportunities.
- Represent the organization in technical meetings, presentations, and authority discussions.
- Support authority approvals and permitting processes.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary utilities team, fostering technical excellence and collaboration.
- Support recruitment, resource planning, and capability development aligned with business growth objectives.
- Promote a high-performance, delivery-focused culture within the team.
Project Delivery & Governance
- Oversee project delivery to ensure time, cost, and quality objectives are achieved.
- Ensure effective coordination with internal disciplines including transport planning, highways, structures, and environment, and with external stakeholders.
- Lead resolution of complex technical interface issues across multiple workstreams.
Business & Financial Management
- Support in achieving the P&L objectives in line with business targets.
- Contribute to proposal preparation, bid strategy, and technical submissions for major projects.
- Monitor project financials, including budget, forecasting, and resource utilization to ensure profit and loss objectives are met at both project and discipline levels.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline (Master's preferred).
- Minimum 18+ years of total experience in engineering consultancy, with strong focus on dry utilities design and delivery.
- Proven experience working with leading international engineering consultancies.
- Demonstrated involvement in large-scale infrastructure and land development projects in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia experience preferred).
- Strong knowledge of local authority requirements and standards in KSA.
- Chartered Engineer or equivalent professional accreditation preferred.
Skills & Competencies
- Extensive expertise in power (HV/MV/LV), substations, telecom networks, MEICA, and street lighting systems.
- Strong understanding of design coordination across multiple disciplines.
- Proven track record in a client-facing leadership role managing senior stakeholders.
- Strong team leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to operate at both strategic and hands-on technical levels.
- Strong commercial awareness and experience in project delivery and business development.
Additional Information
- Flexible working options available, including work from home, part-time arrangements, and flexible start and finish times.
- Competitive pay.
- First class medical cover.
- Generous annual leave.
- Paid professional subscriptions.