Principal - Utilities Drainage Engineer

Principal - Utilities Drainage Engineer - (ENG-L7.111)

Requisition #

ENG-L7.111

Job title

Principal - Utilities Drainage Engineer

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Contract type

Permanent (Employee)

Full Time

Zutari is a well-established, management-owned engineering firm with over 90 years' experience. As human‑centred engineering consultants and advisors, we are trusted by our clients, business partners, communities and other stakeholders across the Middle East & Africa.

We co‑create engineering solutions that have a positive impact and improve people's lives. Zutari values inclusion and recognises the importance of a diverse, talented workforce, believing that people need other people to succeed.

We employ people with the right attitude and a positive mindset, who are motivated by doing the right thing, getting things done and share a sense of urgency. People who have an impact in our teams and broader community. People who think differently and connect with those around them to co‑create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.

The role seeks a Utilities Drainage Principal Engineer to support the Utilities Infrastructure portfolio, with a primary focus on wet utilities systems, including stormwater, sewerage, water supply, and associated hydraulic interfaces. The position requires close coordination with road, bridge, and traffic disciplines to ensure integrated utility layouts, compliant hydraulic design, and effective management of interfaces across multi‑disciplinary infrastructure projects.

This position will play a key role in design development, design review, authority coordination, technical assurance, and stakeholder engagement across major infrastructure projects in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

• Lead and coordinate the design of wet utilities drainage systems, with particular emphasis on stormwater management solutions for infrastructure and development projects, including internal site drainage, road drainage interfaces, attenuation, infiltration, and controlled discharge systems.
• Prepare, review, and approve stormwater and wet utilities design reports, technical memoranda, calculations, and authority submission documentation, ensuring clarity of design intent, assumptions, and compliance with applicable standards.
• Coordinate utilities drainage design elements including kerb and gully systems, pipe networks, channels, culverts, outfalls, attenuation structures, and overland flow paths, ensuring alignment with overall utilities strategies.
• Provide specialist wet utilities input to roads, interchanges, bridges, tunnels, ROW corridors, and development infrastructure, focusing on hydraulic performance, service protection, and interface management.
• Manage and resolve interfaces between stormwater, sewer, water, fire water, and other wet utilities with road geometry, pavement design, structures, traffic systems, and landscape works.
• Undertake and support design reviews, independent checks, and technical assurance activities for wet utilities and stormwater packages across all project stages.
• Lead and manage stakeholder engagement with approving authorities, including Roads and Transport Authority, Dubai Municipality, DEWA, Abu Dhabi Municipality, and other relevant entities, ensuring timely, coordinated, and effective approvals.
• Represent the Utilities Infrastructure team in authority meetings, technical workshops, utility coordination forums, and interdisciplinary coordination sessions, providing technical leadership and clear communication.
• Liaise closely with internal multidisciplinary teams to resolve design risks, constructability issues, utility clashes, and programme constraints related to wet utilities infrastructure.
• Contribute to proposals and tenders by developing wet utilities and stormwater methodologies, defining scope and deliverables, identifying authority interfaces, and supporting level‑of‑effort estimates.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentoring to junior and intermediate engineers within the Utilities Infrastructure unit, supporting skills development and consistent design quality.
• Ensure…