Head of Design

Confidential Company; Muscat; On-site; OMR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Company in Oman is seeking Head of Design Infrastructure to lead the design across all project phases, ensuring alignment with client vision, program, budget, and regulatory requirements. You will guide multidisciplinary teams across roads, utilities, drainage, civil works, earthworks, and external networks to deliver compliant, constructible designs and robust asset performance.

The role demands strong leadership, excellent communication with authorities, risk and quality

Qualifications

• Excellent technical understanding of infrastructure systems and multidisciplinary interfaces.
• Ability to manage authority approvals, design governance, risk management, and QA.
• Strong leadership across roads, utilities, drainage, civil works, and structures.
• Experience coordinating with clients and stakeholders to align design with objectives.

Responsibilities

• Lead infrastructure design across all project phases from pre-contract to handover.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams including roads, utilities, drainage, civil works, and structures.
• Ensure outputs are coordinated, compliant, constructible, and cost-effective.
• Maintain design governance, risk management, and quality assurance.
• Communicate with authorities and stakeholders to secure approvals and align with program.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Cross-disciplinary leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

The Head of Design Infrastructure is responsible for leading and managing the full infrastructure design function across all phases of the project lifecycle including pre-contract tendering post-contract execution construction support and handover The role acts as the single point of accountability for infrastructure design ensuring that all technical solutions are aligned with the client s vision project objectives delivery program budget requirements authority regulations and construction strategy This position requires strong leadership across multidisciplinary infrastructure teams including roads utilities drainage wet services dry services civil works structures traffic mobility and specialist technical disciplines The Head of Design ensures that all infrastructure design outputs are coordinated compliant constructible cost-effective and delivered to the required quality standards Strong leadership and design management capability.

• Excellent technical understanding of infrastructure systems, including roads, utilities, drainage, civil works, earthworks, grading, and external networks.
• Ability to manage complex technical interfaces across multiple disciplines and stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of authority approvals, NOCs, technical compliance, design governance, risk management, and quality assurance.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, reporting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong commercial and construction awareness, with the ability to balance design quality, cost, schedule, constructability, and long-term asset performance.
• Ability to lead under pressure, resolve complex technical issues, and make sound decisions in a fast-paced project environment.

Overall Accountability

The Head of Design – Infrastructure is accountable for ensuring that all infrastructure design activities are strategically led, technically coordinated, authority-compliant, constructible, cost-effective, and aligned with the overall program objectives. The role protects design integrity while enabling timely delivery, managing technical risk, and supporting successful procurement, construction, and handover outcomes