Design Lead - Roads and Utilities
Posted date [2026-05-04]
(ID: 44857)
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Job Snapshot
* Role: Design Lead - Roads and Utilities
* Location: Dubai, UAE
* Industry: Civil Engineering
* Function: Civil & Structural Engineering
* Experience: Minimum 10 years of UAE experience in infrastructure design and local authority procedures
* Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Design Lead - Roads and Utilities in Dubai, UAE is a Civil Engineering role focused on managing RTA infrastructure design packages across roads, interchanges, utilities, drainage, structures, lighting, ITS, traffic, and landscaping works. The role supports AECOM by leading multidisciplinary design coordination, reviewing technical deliverables, managing authority comments, and ensuring infrastructure designs are compliant, constructible, cost-effective, and aligned with RTA and Dubai authority standards.
Job Details
Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Civil & Structural Engineering
Salary: 35000-55000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Key Responsibilities
* Lead design development for RTA infrastructure projects covering roads, interchanges, utilities, drainage, structures, and related civil works.
* Review and coordinate design submissions at concept, preliminary, detailed, and IFC stages.
* Ensure design packages comply with RTA manuals, Dubai Municipality requirements, DEWA standards, Etisalat and Du procedures, and applicable international codes.
* Coordinate design input across highways, traffic, utilities, drainage, structures, lighting, ITS, landscaping, and other technical disciplines.
* Review drawings, calculations, specifications, BOQs, cost estimates, and technical reports before submission.
* Manage interfaces between roadworks, existing infrastructure, utility networks, structures, and new project elements.
* Track RTA design review comments and ensure responses, updates, and closures are completed within required timelines.
* Liaise with RTA Engineering, Traffic, and Safety departments during design review, technical coordination, and approval stages.
* Support preparation and review of NOC submissions, authority permits, technical approvals, and project documentation.
* Ensure road safety audit requirements, traffic staging, and temporary traffic management designs are properly coordinated.
* Participate in coordination meetings, technical workshops, constructability reviews, and value engineering sessions.
* Identify potential design risks, clashes, approval delays, and construction constraints at an early stage.
* Recommend practical design solutions that improve constructability, reduce conflicts, and support project cost control.
* Provide tender-stage technical support, including responses to queries, clarifications, addenda, and design-related inputs.
* Assist construction teams by reviewing RFIs, design modifications, technical queries, and site-driven design changes.
* Guide junior engineers and review their outputs to ensure technical quality, schedule alignment, and authority compliance.
* Maintain proper design records, document control, QA-QC checks, design closeout files, and as-built drawing coordination.
Ideal Profile
* BEng or MEng in Civil Engineering.
* Minimum 10 years of UAE experience in civil infrastructure design, transportation projects, roads, utilities, drainage, or RTA-related works.
* Strong knowledge of local authority procedures, standards, regulations, and approval requirements in the UAE.
* Practical experience with RTA design processes, Dubai Municipality coordination, DEWA interfaces, Etisalat and Du NOCs, and related authority submissions.
* Strong capability in reviewing design drawings, technical calculations, specifications, BOQs, cost estimates, and IFC packages.
* Good understanding of multidisciplinary infrastructure coordination across highways, traffic, structures, drainage, utilities, lighting, ITS, and landscaping.
* Ability to manage design interfaces, authority comments, design risks, road safety audit inputs, and traffic staging requirements.
* Strong communication and presentation skills for technical meetings, authority discussions, and stakeholder coordination.
* Able to support tender, construction, RFI, design change, and closeout activities.
* Detail-oriented professional with strong document control, QA-QC, review tracking, and design management discipline.
Skills Set
* RTA infrastructure design
* Roads design coordination
* Utilities design coordination
* Interchange design support
* Drainage design review
* Structures interface management
* Multidisciplinary design management
* Concept design review
* Preliminary design review
* Detailed design review
* IFC design coordination
* Authority submissions
* NOC and permit support
* Dubai Municipality procedures
* DEWA coordination
* Etisalat and Du coordination
* Design calculations review
* BOQ and cost estimate review
* Road safety audit coordination
* Traffic staging review
* Temporary traffic management
* RFI response support
* Value engineering
* QA-QC procedures
* Design closeout documentation
Why Join Us
* Lead important Civil Engineering design work for transportation and infrastructure projects in Dubai, UAE.
* Work closely with RTA, Dubai authorities, design teams, construction teams, and multidisciplinary technical specialists.
* Gain senior exposure to roads, utilities, drainage, structures, ITS, lighting, traffic management, approvals, and design governance.
* Help deliver practical infrastructure solutions that improve mobility, safety, constructability, and long-term city development.
* Join a global consulting environment where technical quality, innovation, collaboration, and career growth are strongly supported.
About the Company
AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting firm delivering planning, design, engineering, program management, construction supervision, and project delivery services across transportation, buildings, water, environment, and energy. In Dubai and across the Middle East, AECOM supports public and private sector clients with sustainable, resilient, and technically advanced infrastructure solutions that improve mobility, urban development, public services, and community growth.
