Technical Director - Energy

Job Description

With over 14,000 professionals globally, GHD is a leading multidisciplinary professional services company delivering engineering, design, and advisory solutions across water, energy, resources, environment, property & buildings, and transportation sectors.

Energy systems across the Middle East are evolving rapidly. Strong demand growth, major infrastructure investment, increasing renewable energy deployment and the growing need for storage, flexibility and digital solutions are creating new and complex requirements for how energy is planned, delivered and managed.

In response to this transforming landscape, GHD is bringing together regional insight and global technical expertise to help utilities, governments, developers and major energy users address these challenges. Our work spans electricity networks, renewable energy, utility‑scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), energy strategy and advisory, technical due diligence, regulatory support, grid integration, demand‑side flexibility, and the energy needs of critical sectors such as data centres and water infrastructure, supporting clients throughout the lifecycle of their energy assets and systems.

We are investing significantly in the growth of our Middle East Energy team and are looking for a senior, externally recognised professional to help shape and lead that growth.

As a Technical Director – Energy, reporting to the Business Group Leader, Energy, Environment & Water, you will be a senior technical and commercial figure in GHD’s Middle East Energy business. This is a role for an established professional who is known and well regarded in the regional market.

We are looking for someone motivated to both win and deliver work. You will use your relationships and standing in the market to open doors and secure opportunities and then stay closely involved in the work that follows, leading it yourself and through the team.

You will act as a trusted advisor to utilities, regulators, government entities, developers, investors and major energy users across the GCC, leading and directing assignments of significance across electricity networks and substations, renewable energy, energy storage, grid integration, regulatory and economic advisory, technical due diligence and Owner's Engineer services.

Our Middle East Energy business is growing quickly, on the back of a strong client base, an established regional reputation and significant enterprise investment in the team. Your focus will be on scaling that momentum: growing the regional pipeline and backlog, increasing the volume and value of work we take on, broadening the propositions we take to market, delivering strong project financial performance, and developing the senior capability needed to keep pace with demand.

While the role is based in and focused on the Middle East, GHD is a globally connected business. You will have direct access to our specialists worldwide and, where your expertise is in demand, the opportunity to contribute to projects in other geographies, bringing that international perspective back to the benefit of our regional clients.

• Contribute directly to the Middle East Energy growth strategy and business plan, working with regional leadership on market positioning, service development, resourcing and investment priorities as we scale.
• Win and deliver work in equal measure. Personally win work through your market standing and relationships, and lead its delivery, for yourself and for the wider team.
• Act as a technical authority and Project Director on major energy assignments across the Middle East, taking personal accountability for technical quality, commercial performance and client outcomes.
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