Middle East Portfolio Delivery India Lead

Job Summary:

- Responsible for guiding the execution of engineering projects, ensuring they meet scope, timelines, and quality standards.

- This role involves managing and growing teams, identifying and breaking down complex challenges, and developing project roadmaps.

- Performs as a key leader in stakeholder management and communication.

Job Description:

Engineering Design/Development:

- With high-level goals provided, teams to develop large scale projects such as highways, tunnels, mass transit and aviation engineering designs of moderate to high complexity to meet client project requirements.

- Signs and seals engineering designs as necessary.

- Reviews draft designs for compliance with federal, state and local regulations and signs off on completed designs.

- Ensures that firm policies and practices are followed on all designs.

Project Delivery & Coordination:

- Lead the end-to-end project delivery for transportation, highway, and bridge design projects within the Global Design Center (GDC) framework for Middle East Regions.

- Monitor project performance, ensuring adherence to contractual agreements, safety standards, and servicelevel expectations.

- Ensure seamless collaboration across multinational teams, leveraging global best practices in design and project execution.

Stakeholder Management & Sales Support:

- Manage stakeholder relationships, Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including clients, vendors, and other departments.

- Partners with Client

- Service Units to provide sales support.

- Technical Luminescence

- Attends conferences, symposia, etc. to improve the visibility of the firm's products and services in collaboration with applicable sales staff.

Technical Guidance:

- Provides technical guidance and training to more junior staff.

- Mentors more junior staff and develops them for future growth within the discipline and firm.

Technical Knowledge Management (TKM):

- Contributes to firm's TKM by developing white papers and technical design documentation of new or special case designs, studies, etc.

- Submits technical papers and designs for publishing to technical journals.

Other:

- Performs other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Education Requirements - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Transportation Engineering or Structural Engineering, or a related field.

- Experience Requirement - Minimum 15 years of related experience in transportation infrastructure projects, preferably in a Global Design Center environment.

- Strong Middle East

- Client Management & Project Delivery experience is preferred.

- Expertise in transportation modeling software ( VISSIM, SYNCHRO) or highway design tools ( AutoCAD Civil 3D) or bridge analysis software ( STAAD Pro, Midas).

- Expert Knowledge of engineer principles of design.

- Strong understanding of cross-border project coordination, international design standards, and digital transformation in engineering

- Knowledge of design standards (AASHTO, NACTO, etc. )

- Excellent leadership, communication, and negotiation skills