Senior Design Manager – Utilities

Buro Happold; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 550,000 - 800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Job summary

Buro Happold in Riyadh is seeking a Senior Design Manager – Utilities to lead the utilities design on a flagship luxury project. You will oversee dry and wet utilities, corridor coordination, and interface with infrastructure, roads, architecture and landscape teams.

The role focuses on managing consultant teams, technical submissions, authority interactions, risk management and value engineering to optimise constructability and lifecycle performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical or Utility Engineering.
• Significant experience leading utilities design on major developments.
• Strong cross-discipline coordination and reporting skills.
• Experience with authority approvals and stakeholder engagement.
• Proficient in BIM and digital coordination.

Responsibilities

• Lead utilities design management across all design stages.
• Oversee corridor and interface coordination with other disciplines.
• Manage consultant teams and review technical submissions.
• Coordinate with authorities and utility providers for approvals.
• Identify risks and drive value engineering initiatives.

Skills

Utilities design

Senior leadership

Multidisciplinary coordination

BIM coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Civil/Mechanical/Electrical or Utility Eng

Tools

BIM

Job description

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Want to lead utilities design on a major luxury development in Riyadh? Your experience managing complex utilities packages and sitewide coordination might make you our new Senior Design Manager – Utilities.

Here, expect the exceptional.

This role sits at the centre of delivering robust, coordinated and future-ready utility systems for a flagship luxury project.

Your next role

The purpose of this role is to provide senior design management for utilities packages across a major luxury project in Riyadh. You will be responsible for overseeing dry and wet utility design, corridor coordination, authority interfaces, consultant management and technical assurance throughout project delivery.

Lead utilities design management across concept, developed and detailed design stages.

Oversee design coordination for power, telecom, district cooling, water, sewerage, stormwater, irrigation and related utility networks.

Manage consultant teams and review utility strategies, layouts, calculations and technical submissions.

Coordinate with infrastructure, roads, transport, architecture and landscape teams to resolve corridor and interface issues.

Support authority engagement, technical approvals and utility provider coordination.

Identify and manage risks, changes and design constraints affecting utility packages.

Lead value engineering and design optimisation initiatives to improve efficiency, constructability and lifecycle performance.

Monitor programme milestones, deliverable schedules and consultant performance.

Prepare reports and updates for project leadership and client teams.

Support procurement documentation, consultant selection and technical bid evaluations where required.

Your skills and experience

Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical or Utility Engineering, or a related field.

Significant experience managing utility design on major infrastructure or mixed-use developments.

Strong understanding of wet and dry utility systems and multidisciplinary coordination.

Experience with authority approval processes and utility stakeholder engagement.

Strong analytical, organisational and technical reporting skills.

Ability to manage complex design interfaces in fast-paced project environments.

BIM and digital coordination experience is advantageous.

Middle East experience, particularly in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, is strongly preferred.

What we offer you

A senior role on a landmark luxury development in Riyadh.

The chance to shape the utility backbone of a high-profile destination project.

An attractive salary and benefits package.

A high-performing and multidisciplinary project environment.

At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.