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Job Description:
Lead Drainage Engineer
Doha, Qatar
Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Lead Drainage Engineer to join our team! In this role you will get to lead the drainage discipline on major projects and support the growth of the department.
What You'll Be Doing
- Lead the planning, design, and delivery of drainage and stormwater management systems for infrastructure and development projects.
- Act as a primary point of contact for the drainage discipline on assigned projects. Depending on project scale, this may require deputizing for the drainage design manager for certain duties.
- Manage and coordinate hydraulic and hydrological modelling, including flood risk assessments and drainage impact studies.
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the project team, ensuring compliance with relevant design standards, codes, and best practices.
- Review, validate, and approve design calculations, drawings, and reports prepared by early and mid-career professionals.
- Develop and implement water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) solutions.
- Liaise with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory authorities to secure project approvals and resolve technical issues.
- Preparing technical responses to bids and 'level of effort' estimates for prospective work for the drainage team.
- Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery.
- Mentor and develop team members, fostering technical capability and professional growth.
- Stay up to date with emerging drainage technologies, modelling tools, and industry regulations to enhance project outcomes.
- Hydraulic and System design of the complex environment to meet site-specific requirements.
- Apply innovative ideas, technology, and value engineering solutions.
- Undertake hydrologic modeling, calculations, drawings, report writing, design review, and supervision.
- Coordinating with the CAD / BIM / 3-D modeling teams on projects.
What Required Skills You'll Bring
- A Bachelor's degree in Civil/ Hydraulic/ Hydrology/ Water Engineering. A Master's degree in Water Engineering/Hydrology would be an advantage.
- Minimum 20 years experience in water engineering, including stormwater drainage design in civil and transport projects, stormwater management, and planning.
- Sound knowledge of principles of hydrology and hydraulics.
- Demonstrated understanding of hydrologic and hydraulic modeling/design software packages used in the design of surface drainage, piped networks, cross drainage, and flood analysis, i.e., CAD skills, SWMM, StormCAD, HEC-RAS, and HEC-HMS knowledge
- Experience with InfoWorks ICM, 1D/2D is compulsory.
- Excellent command with GIS and CAD tools such as ArcMap, QGIS, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Microstation.
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and encourage collaboration
- Ability to handle multiple projects and deliver results within the project timeline.
- Experience estimating work for bids of medium scale and associated technical submissions.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- A collegiate, team-player attitude
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) qualified (or equivalent) or well-progressed towards qualification.
- Preferably already hold MME Engineer Registration or must be attained within six months. Experience in Qatar and the Middle East is a plus.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Civil, Hydraulic, Hydrology or Water Engineering
- Master's degree in Water Engineering/Hydrology
- Minimum 20 years' experience in water engineering including stormwater drainage design for civil and transport projects
- Sound knowledge of hydrology and hydraulics principles
- Experience with hydrologic and hydraulic modelling/design software (SWMM, StormCAD, HEC-RAS, HEC-HMS)
- Experience with InfoWorks ICM 1D/2D
- Proficiency with GIS and CAD tools (ArcMap, QGIS, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation)
- CAD skills and ability to coordinate with CAD/BIM/3-D modeling teams
- Experience estimating work for bids and preparing technical submissions
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) qualified or well-progressed towards qualification
- MME Engineer Registration (preferably held or to be attained within six months)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to handle multiple projects within timelines
- Ability to work within and lead multi-disciplinary teams and mentor junior staff
- Experience with water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) solutions
- Experience in Qatar and the Middle East
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are framed as a major value driver, with an ESOP alongside a 401(k) match and additional stock-purchase options contributing meaningfully to total rewards. This structure is positioned as especially attractive for employees who value long-term wealth-building over immediate cash.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and choice-rich, with multiple plan types (PPO, HDHP, and some HMO networks) plus dental, vision, EAP, and wellness resources. The availability of different plan designs and national-carrier coverage supports varied employee needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are portrayed as competitive, including PTO, holidays, flexible schedules such as a 9/80 option for eligible roles, and floating holidays in the U.S. Paid parental leave of 160 hours is also highlighted as a meaningful component of the overall package.
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Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com. Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
