Job Description

Overview

This position within AtkinsRéalis’ Middle East Design Team focuses on delivering innovative, sustainable, and technically robust solutions across all MEP disciplines, including HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, and Public Health Engineering. The role demands strong technical leadership, the ability to act as a Subject Matter Expert, and a growing reputation both internally and externally. Responsibilities include leading complex design packages, ensuring “Safe by Design” principles, driving digital transformation, and promoting quality and technical governance. The candidate will contribute to business strategy through research and innovation, mentor teams, and support knowledge management initiatives, while maintaining commercial awareness and client engagement. This is an opportunity to influence multidisciplinary projects, develop technical capability within the team, and progress toward senior technical authority roles.

Your role

• Produces innovative solutions.

• Clearly marshals and delivers thoughts on paper, provides clear and detailed documents.

• Able to take over a technical lead role, with a growing reputation internally and externally within their field.

• Can take on Subject Matter Expert role within discipline, growing towards a Professional Head of Discipline or Technical Authority role.

• Able to provide leadership on “Safe by Design” on projects and review our approach to hierarchical risk elimination, mitigation and controls.

• Undertakes specialist/complex packages of work and function as a Discipline Technical Reviewer on Medium technical risk projects within their own discipline.

• Able to present their technical work and that of their colleagues in their field to clients.

• Contributes to and researches the development of existing and new areas of technology/capabilities to inform business strategy.

• Promotes the importance of quality within their business.

• Acts as a Technical reviewer/signatory on low/medium-risk projects and bids.

• Familiar with the commercial governance, systems and project management governance.

About you

• Listens attentively and openly to differing opinions and strikes an appropriate balance using impartial insight and common sense.

• Can take on the responsibility as an L&D coordinator, early career mentor or digital champion within their own discipline.

• Starts to demonstrate an understanding of people management issues.

• Lead or Co-Lead Business Initiatives such as: L&D Sessions, Digital Tool Webinar Sessions, TCF Update, OrderWorX Status tracking team, Timesheet status tracking team, ENZ Initiatives, Yammer Update Team, BD Journal Entry Team, Computation Design Network.

• Maintains a focused mindset and orchestrates several concurrent requests effortlessly especially when under pressure.

• Has led small teams of staff to deliver successful project outcomes.

• Good exposure to and involvement with clients.

• Delivering increasingly complex/broader range of work packages with reducing levels of supervision.

• Tailors own style or approach in response to requirements of new situations.

• Proactive and determined to deliver against stretching targets.

• Able to lead and deliver tasks or lesser complex projects, generally single discipline, to time, cost and quality.

• Builds relationships with limited sets of LPO colleagues.

• Shows growing awareness of the commercial aspects of project management and AtkinsRéalis financial systems.

• Writing professional reports with minimal rework.

• Able to reliably manage a team and carries out supervision of junior staff.

• Train and upskill the junior staff on any relevant tools or technical skills.

• Implement Sustainability or Net Zero initiatives in all the projects.

• Issuing clear and precise instructions to lesser experienced team members.

• Able to identify where changes to contractual arrangements occur.

• Relevant professional qualifications or demonstrate very good progress towards these e.g. CEng, RIBA, CEnv, , P.Eng, P.E, APM etc.

• Take up the responsibilities of a line manager and manage a small team.

Reward & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.

• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.

• Generous annual leave balance.

• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.

• Remote work opportunities outside of country.

• Company gratuity scheme.

• Discretionary bonus program.

• Relocation assistance.

• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.