The Manager – Project Engineering is responsible for leading and managing all engineering activities associated with large-scale water transmission, water distribution, and main transmission pumping station projects from concept through commissioning and final handover.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and manage all engineering activities throughout the project lifecycle, including concept, detailed design, procurement support, construction, commissioning, and project close-out.

• Establish engineering execution plans, design management procedures, technical standards, and engineering governance frameworks.

• Ensure engineering deliverables comply with project specifications, contractual requirements, applicable codes, international standards, and client specification requirements. TAQA-T, TAQA-D specification

• Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams to achieve project objectives safely, efficiently, and within budget.

Project Engineering Management

• Coordinate engineering activities between design consultants, EPC contractors, vendors, subcontractors, and client representatives.

• Manage engineering interfaces across Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Electrical, Instrumentation & Control (I&C), Process, Pipeline, and SCADA disciplines.

• Review and approve engineering deliverables, technical reports, calculations, drawings, specifications, material submittals, and vendor documentation.

• Monitor engineering schedules, identify risks, and implement mitigation measures to maintain project milestones.

• Manage engineering change control, technical deviations, value engineering initiatives, and design optimization.

Water Transmission & Distribution Systems

• Oversee engineering for large-diameter transmission pipelines, distribution networks, valve stations, chambers, surge protection systems, and associated infrastructure.

• Ensure hydraulic performance, operational flexibility, maintainability, and long-term reliability of water transmission systems.

• Coordinate engineering interfaces between pipelines, pumping stations, reservoirs, utility corridors, and existing infrastructure.

Main Transmission Pumping Stations

• Lead engineering activities for major transmission pumping stations, including:

  • Pump selection and optimization

  • Mechanical equipment

  • Piping systems

  • Surge protection systems

  • Utility services

• Review equipment layouts to ensure accessibility, maintainability, constructability, and operational efficiency.

• Coordinate factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), installation support, and performance verification.

Hydraulic & Process Engineering

• Lead hydraulic studies and engineering analyses, including:

  • Hydraulic modelling

  • Pump system optimization

  • Surge and transient analysis

  • Pipeline sizing

  • Energy optimization

  • System reliability assessments

• Review process engineering deliverables, including Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs), Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs), process calculations, and operational philosophies.

• Ensure hydraulic and process designs satisfy current and future operational demands.

Stakeholder & Client Management

• Serve as the primary engineering interface with clients, consultants, contractors, utility, and regulatory authorities.

• Lead engineering coordination meetings, technical workshops, design reviews, and progress meetings.

• Resolve complex technical issues and provide timely engineering solutions.

• Present engineering proposals, technical evaluations, and project updates to senior management and client representatives.

Construction Engineering Support

• Provide engineering support during procurement, construction, installation, and testing activities.

• Review contractor shop drawings, method statements, material approvals, and technical submittals.

• Resolve site engineering issues and coordinate design modifications when required.

• Support constructability reviews, risk assessments, and value engineering workshops.

Commissioning & Operational Readiness

• Lead engineering support for pre-commissioning, commissioning, system integration, performance testing, and operational acceptance.

• Review commissioning plans, procedures, and test protocols.

• Coordinate engineering support during system start-up, reliability testing, and final performance verification.

• Ensure completion of as-built documentation, operation and maintenance manuals, and final engineering records.

• Support project handover to operations teams.

Quality, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure compliance with project quality management systems and engineering assurance processes.

• Identify engineering risks and implement mitigation strategies.

• Ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and sustainability requirements.

Promote continuous improvement and lessons learned across engineering activities.

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. / Master’s degree in mechanical engineering is preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 18–20 years of engineering experience in the water infrastructure sector.

• Minimum 10 years in senior project engineering or engineering management roles.

• Extensive experience in:

  • Water transmission systems

  • Water distribution networks

  • Main transmission pumping stations

  • Large-diameter pipelines

  • Reservoirs and associated infrastructure

  • Hydraulic modelling and surge analysis

  • Process engineering

  • EPC, Design-Build, and multidisciplinary project delivery