Dubai Highway Design Engineer | Transport Infrastructure Pro

AECOM Middle East Ltd; Dubai; On-site; AED 156,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a Highway Design Engineer to transform transport planning into practical road infrastructure solutions in Dubai. You will manage design tasks across geometry, alignments, and modeling while coordinating with utilities, structures, and BIM specialists to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Ideal candidates have 4–8 years of highway design experience, familiarity with UAE standards, and a track record in multi-disciplinary coordination using BIM-enabled workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from a recognized institution.
• 4-8 years of professional experience involving highway, roadway, or transportation infrastructure design.
• Experience on UAE infrastructure projects is preferred and familiarity with local design standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop highway geometry through concept to detailed design stages.
• Prepare calculations, quantities, technical reports, design notes, and supporting project documentation.
• Produce coordinated drawings that comply with BIM, CAD, drafting and document control requirements.
• Coordinate roadway geometry with traffic systems, drainage networks, utilities, bridges and structures, landscaping, street lighting, ITS, and related disciplines.
• Support preparation of technical packages required for authority approvals and project deliverables.

Skills

Highway geometric design

Transportation infrastructure design

Road alignment development

Vertical profile design

Horizontal alignment design

Corridor modelling

Cross section design

Road grading

Earthworks calculations

Pavement layout preparation

Bentley OpenRoads Designer

Civil 3D

MicroStation

AutoCAD

ProjectWise

Bluebeam

BIM coordination

Survey data interpretation

Quantity estimation

Engineering calculations

Technical report writing

Utility coordination

Design conflict resolution

Value Engineering

Road safety review

Design risk assessment

RTA standards

AASHTO standards

Dubai Municipality requirements

DEWA coordination

Authority approval submissions

Document revision control

QA procedures

Multidisciplinary design coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

Bentley OpenRoads Designer

Civil 3D

MicroStation

AutoCAD

ProjectWise

Bluebeam

Job description

AECOM is seeking a Highway Design Engineer to transform transport planning into practical road infrastructure solutions in Dubai. You will manage design tasks across geometry, alignments, and modeling while coordinating with utilities, structures, and BIM specialists to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Ideal candidates have 4–8 years of highway design experience, familiarity with UAE standards, and a track record in multi-disciplinary coordination using BIM-enabled workflows.