Job Description

Overview

This position within AtkinsRéalis' Middle East Design Team focuses on delivering innovative, sustainable, and technically robust solutions across all MEP disciplines, including HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, and Public Health Engineering. The role demands strong technical leadership, the ability to act as a Subject Matter Expert, and a growing reputation both internally and externally. Responsibilities include leading complex design packages, ensuring "Safe by Design" principles, driving digital transformation, and promoting quality and technical governance. The candidate will contribute to business strategy through research and innovation, mentor teams, and support knowledge management initiatives, while maintaining commercial awareness and client engagement. This is an opportunity to influence multidisciplinary projects, develop technical capability within the team, and progress toward senior technical authority roles.

Your role

• Uses data, tools and technology to add value.
• Receive technical training on the job through performing tasks with no supervision.
• Questions and challenges conventional work methodology.
• Able to author competent technical reports of acceptable technical and presentational quality.
• Understanding of international design codes and emerging as or accepted as subject matter experts in one or more areas of their discipline.
• Develop broad technical competence and able to check work of all those in the project team. Emerging capability of ability to review work on simpler single discipline projects (Green Technical Risk Category).
• Demonstrates service-oriented mindset.
• Research the market to contribute to market intelligence initiatives.
• Lead by example and supervises juniors on CDM, Safe by Design principles and AtkinsRéalis' SMS procedures for projects.
• Participate in updating the PAT Tool for a project.
• Able to independently deliver work and integrate with larger project team.
• Leads application of digital technology on projects. Acts as an Information Manager on medium projects, design manager on smaller projects.
• Capable of independently producing effort estimates for tasks in their area of work or single discipline projects.
• Applies professional knowledge and experienced judgement to single discipline projects within their domain.
• Details appropriate actions and adopt new plans in response to changing circumstances.
• Familiar with the commercial aspects of project management.
• Able to present/represent their work and that of their colleagues on the projects (presentations/meetings) to clients.
• Shares lessons learnt and best practice. Proactively leads knowledge share sessions within the practice.
• Self-disciplined and able to manage their daily work allocation and those of more junior team members.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and execute their tasks and team members to meet deadlines within budget and demonstrate results.
• Is proactive and co-operative in a multi-disciplinary project team environment with a mindset to aid in improving processes.
• Good communication and listening skills with the ability to draft responses to straight forward queries.
• Is dynamic, bold and full of optimistic energy for things that are seen as challenging and perseveres when things are not going as planned.
• Regularly supervises junior staff.
• Creates an environment where others can make decisions by clarifying roles and responsibilities and providing appropriate support.

About you

• Listens attentively and openly to differing opinions and strikes an appropriate balance using impartial insight and common sense.
• Can take on the responsibility as an L&D coordinator, early career mentor or digital champion within their own discipline.
• Starts to demonstrate an understanding of people management issues.
• Lead or Co-Lead Business Initiatives such as: L&D Sessions, Digital Tool Webinar Sessions, TCF Update, OrderWorX Status tracking team, Timesheet status tracking team, ENZ Initiatives, Yammer Update Team, BD Journal Entry Team, Computation Design Network.
• Maintains a focused mindset and orchestrates several concurrent requests effortlessly especially when under pressure.
• Has led small teams of staff to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Good exposure to and involvement with clients.
• Delivering increasingly complex/broader range of work packages with reducing levels of supervision.
• Tailors own style or approach in response to requirements of new situations.
• Proactive and determined to deliver against stretching targets.
• Able to lead and deliver tasks or lesser complex projects, generally single discipline, to time, cost and quality.
• Builds relationships with limited sets of LPO colleagues.
• Shows growing awareness of the commercial aspects of project management and AtkinsRéalis financial systems.
• Writing professional reports with minimal rework.
• Able to reliably manage a team and carries out supervision of junior staff.
• Train and upskill the junior staff on any relevant tools or technical skills.
• Implement Sustainability or Net Zero initiatives in all the projects.
• Issuing clear and precise instructions to lesser experienced team members.
• Able to identify where changes to contractual arrangements occur.
• Relevant professional qualifications or demonstrate very good progress towards these e.g. CEng, RIBA, CEnv, , P.Eng, P.E, APM etc.
• Take up the responsibilities of a line manager and manage a small team.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.

• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.

• Generous annual leave balance.

• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.

• Remote work opportunities outside of country.

• Company gratuity scheme.

• Discretionary bonus program.

• Relocation assistance.

• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.