Sr Wet Utilities Engineer

Buro Happold; Mumbai; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Buro Happold, in Mumbai and Bengaluru, is seeking an experienced Senior Wet Utilities Engineer to lead the design and planning of water, wastewater and stormwater networks across India and globally.

The role requires coordinating utilities, updating models, and ensuring regulatory compliance while guiding a team of engineers and collaborating with other disciplines. Flexibility to travel and contribute to sustainability-focused infrastructure is essential.

Qualifications

• 6–12 years experience across multidisciplinary infrastructure projects.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in masterplan engineering (roads, utility coordination, highway drainage).
• Awareness of applying sustainability principles to infrastructure engineering.
• Willingness to travel and lead quality improvements.
• Member of a relevant professional institution.
• Degree in Civil Engineering; master’s degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and planning of wet utility projects including water, wastewater and stormwater networks.
• Coordinate utilities, document systems and update models.
• Guide teams in Civil3D, SewerGems, WaterGems, AutoCAD and BIM.
• Ensure designs comply with codes and regulations.
• Liaise with service providers for NOCs and approvals.
• Collaborate with other design disciplines and stakeholders.
• Mentor junior staff and develop team capabilities.
• Prepare designs, drawings, reports, specifications and schedules.

Skills

6–12 years experience

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Civil Engineering degree

Master's degree

Tools

Civil 3D

SewerGems

WaterGems

AutoCAD

BIM

ArcGIS

Mike Plus

Microdrainage

Excel

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Wet Utilities Engineer in our Mumbai/Bengaluru office who will be a key member of our Infrastructure group to work on projects in India and across the world.

Your next role: Managing and overseeing the design and planning of wet utility-related projects, which includes designing water, wastewater, and stormwater networks, water and wastewater transmission pipelines, coordinating utilities, investigating stormwater, documenting systems, updating models, supporting stormwater drainage, and handling cross-connections, hydraulic and hydrological modelling, etc.

Responsibilities

• Managing and overseeing the design and planning of wet utility-related projects, which includes designing water, wastewater, and stormwater networks, water and wastewater transmission pipelines, coordinating utilities, investigating stormwater, documenting systems, updating models, supporting stormwater drainage, and handling cross-connections, hydraulic and hydrological modelling.
• Guide others in using technologies such as Civil3D, SewerGems, WaterGems, AutoCAD, and BIM.
• Ensure the design complies with all relevant codes and regulations.
• Be knowledgeable about Water, Irrigation, Firefighting, Road Administration Authority regulations.
• Have experience liaising with service provider agencies to obtain NOCs and Design Approvals.
• Collaborate with other design disciplines.
• Establish a profile in the industry and stay updated with innovations and developments.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders such as municipalities, city development offices, and transport administrations.
• Use software tools such as Civil 3D, Mike Plus, WaterGems, SewerGems, Epanet, ArcGIS, and Excel for project execution.
• Assist main designers in various aspects of the project, including updating water system models and designing sewage and stormwater installations.
• Ensure the design and implementation of water and pressure waste networks, including utility coordination of existing installations.
• Working on the delivery of multidisciplinary projects, with technical inputs from numerous disciplines, including transport, energy, sustainability, and building engineers.
• Assisting Project Lead/Discipline lead and developing more junior team members.
• Identifying opportunities to grow the team and bring new skills into the team.
• Preparing designs, drawings, technical reports, specification, and schedules.
• The management of junior technical staff, with responsibility for planning team workload, as well as assisting and mentoring staff where needed, and developing more junior team members.

Requirements

• Ideally be in the range of 6-12 years experience range.
• Demonstrating both the ability to work on multidisciplinary projects, collaborate with other disciplines as well as having excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience of masterplan engineering (Roads, utility coordination, highway drainage), the formulation of options and holistic analysis to provide recommended solutions to clients, as well as an awareness (and ideally experience) of applying the principles of sustainability to infrastructure engineering.
• A desire to show continuous quality improvement in our work.
• Good IT skills including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Civil3D, Bentley SewerGems and Microdrainage.
• Degree in Civil Engineering and preferably a master s degree from a reputed institute.
• Experience in the Middle East and/or UK would be an advantage.
• A Member of a relevant professional institution.
• A willingness to travel, and desire to lead continuous quality improvement in our work.

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