Senior Highway Design Engineer
- Company
- AECOM
- Location
- Dubai
- Job type
- Contract
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Experience
- 8-12 Years
- Education
- Bachelor
- Deadline
- 2027-01-04
Job description
AECOM is looking for a Senior Highway Design Engineer in Dubai to lead the technical delivery of highway design packages across all project stages. The role provides engineering leadership, multidisciplinary coordination, mentoring of junior staff and direct client engagement, ensuring design solutions meet client requirements while keeping to programme and budget.
It calls for strong UAE experience, ideally on RTA infrastructure projects, and compliance with RTA, Dubai Municipality, AASHTO and international design standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead the geometric and detailed design of major highway infrastructure projects.
- Develop innovative engineering solutions for complex transportation challenges.
- Review and approve highway design calculations, drawings, reports, and specifications.
- Lead design reviews, interdisciplinary coordination, and technical workshops.
- Resolve complex engineering issues throughout project delivery.
- Lead Value Engineering studies and design optimisation exercises.
- Ensure compliance with RTA, Dubai Municipality, AASHTO and international design standards.
- Review temporary traffic management and construction staging proposals.
- Provide technical support during construction including RFIs, NCRs, design revisions and engineering assessments.
- Plan and manage assigned design packages.
- Monitor project schedules and resource allocation.
- Coordinate internal and external design interfaces.
- Identify project risks and develop mitigation measures.
- Support project managers in commercial and programme reporting.
- Act as technical point of contact for clients.
- Attend client meetings and technical presentations.
- Respond to authority review comments.
- Support authority approvals and stakeholder coordination.
- Mentor Highway Design Engineers and Graduate Engineers.
- Review junior engineers' work prior to submission.
- Support technical development and knowledge sharing.
- Contribute to staff performance reviews and development planning.
- Ensure compliance with AECOM Quality Management System.
- Lead independent design checks.
- Promote continuous improvement and best practices.
- Ensure lessons learned are incorporated into future projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering.
- 8–12 years of highway design experience.
- Extensive experience delivering major highway projects.
- Strong UAE experience.
- Experience with RTA infrastructure projects is highly desirable.
- Highway geometric design
- Junction and interchange design
- Corridor modelling
- Earthworks optimisation
- Road safety engineering
- Utility coordination
- Construction staging
- Design management
- Value Engineering
- Design risk management
- Bentley OpenRoads Designer
- MicroStation
- ProjectWise
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Skills
- Bentley OpenRoads Designer
- Highway Design
- MicroStation
- ProjectWise
- Road Safety Engineering
- Value Engineering