Principal Design Engineer - Highways

• Provide technical input and supervise technical input of others within the highways discipline
• Able to make decisions, act on own initiative and operate in a pro-active way
• A good understanding of quality assurance, safety, environmental and sustainability
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English, able to inspire, influence and negotiate
• Membership of a Professional Engineering Institution
• Liaising with other engineers/technicians to ensure updates to technical standards are maintained and disseminated to the team
• Performs specific and moderate portions of a broader assignment of an experienced engineer.
• Gathers and correlates basic engineering data using established and well-defined procedures.
• Works on detailed or routine engineering assignments involving calculations and relatively simple tests.
• Proposes approach to solve new problems encountered using modifications of standard procedures or methods developed in previous assignments.
• Identifies discrepancies in results.
• Provides guidance to entry level engineers.
• Performs work in accordance with agreed upon budget and schedule with little supervision.
• Independently performs all the tasks necessary to complete primary design.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a design manager on mega projects, manage and coordinate with different disciplines on the daily design activities and present the design updates weekly to the Client.
• Preparation of all design stages of road geometry, signing and marking, ancillary works of major urban and inter-urban road projects, incorporating tunnels, sophisticated grade separation interchanges, and service roads, investigation of alternatives, route selection and preparation of the main items of bill quantities.
• Assigning work to junior engineers, supervising work, acquiring Road Design approvals.
• Coordination with local authorities for Road geometry, TIS approvals.
• Responsible for the submission, discussion and follow up with local authorities for approvals and permits in coordination with department local authority Engineer.
• Work coactively with the design team, collaborate closely with sub-consultants and liaising with clients ensuring their satisfaction.
• Responsible for acquiring Road Design approvals, work closely with TIS consultant in obtaining approval from the concerned authorities.
• Provide design support during the construction stage.
• Leads a highway team, leads the highway design work, and coordinates with other design disciplines.
• Coordinates and communicates with the client.
• Performs interdisciplinary reviews and provides coordinating data to ensure a compatible design.
• Understands and applies company commonly used design standards and methods.
• Prepares manpower estimates.
• Design of grade-separated interchanges and complex interchanges.
• Design of junctions of roundabouts and signalized junctions both horizontally and vertically, and the development of site grading.
• Design the Roads in 3D environment.
• Design of road cross-sections and generating earthwork quantities from the 3D model.
• Pavement design and pavement design reports.
• Be able to prepare the required presentations to client using PowerPoint or any other applicable software.
• Reviews supplier data as required.
• Reads supplier manufacturer drawings.
• Completes additional duties as assigned.