Wet Utilities Team Lead

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Job Description: Wet Utilities Team Lead

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Wet Utilities Team Lead to join our team! The Wet Utilities Team Lead leads the planning, design, coordination, review, and delivery of wet utilities infrastructure across multidisciplinary projects. The role ensures that potable water, sewerage, stormwater, TSE/irrigation, firefighting water, pumping, storage, and outfall designs are technically sound, coordinated, authority-compliant, and delivered to the required quality, budget, and programme.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead wet utilities design from concept through detailed design, tender, construction support, and handover.
• Review design criteria, calculations, hydraulic models, drawings, reports, specifications, BOQs, and authority submission packages.
• Coordinate wet utilities with roads, dry utilities, structures, landscape, grading, GIS, BIM, and other project disciplines.
• Manage design interfaces, technical risks, authority comments, NOCs, review trackers, and comment response matrices.
• Lead client, authority, utility provider, and stakeholder technical discussions related to wet utilities.
• Mentor engineers, designers, BIM modelers, and CAD technicians while ensuring clear task allocation and quality control.
• Support project leadership with resource planning, programme control, fee inputs, scope changes, proposals, and value engineering.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Water Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or related discipline; master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of wet utilities design experience, including 3–5 years in a lead or team leadership role.
• Experience with potable water, sewerage, stormwater drainage, TSE/irrigation, firefighting water, pumping stations, storage facilities, outfalls, and utility diversions.
• Experience leading authority submissions, technical meetings, NOCs, approvals, and comment resolution.
• Strong understanding of local authority standards, utility provider requirements, international codes, quality procedures, and safety requirements.
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, mentoring, and decision-making skills.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Professional registration or chartership preferred, such as PE, CEng, MICE, MCIWEM, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in design documentation, hydraulic modelling, Civil 3D/AutoCAD, BIM coordination, GIS workflows, and clash resolution.
• Strong GCC/UAE infrastructure project experience preferred.
• Technical knowledge of wet utilities planning, hydraulic design, hydrology, gravity and pressure networks, pumping, storage, and utility corridors.

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