Dry Utilities Lead - Infrastructure
Posted date [2026-07-05]
(ID: 47478)
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Job Description and Requirements
Dry Utilities Lead - InfrastructureJob Snapshot
Role: Dry Utilities Lead - Infrastructure
Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Electrical-Electronics Engineering
Experience: Minimum 20 years of dry utilities engineering experience
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Dry Utilities Lead - Infrastructure in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates is a Civil Engineering opportunity for a senior electrical and utilities engineering leader who can direct dry utilities design, technical assurance, authority coordination, resource planning, and multidisciplinary project delivery. This role is suited for an experienced practice leader with strong expertise in power distribution, telecommunications, street lighting, ICT, ELV, duct banks, utility corridors, NOC approvals, and infrastructure design management.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi Emirate
Industry: Civil Engineering
Function: Electrical-Electronics Engineering
Salary: 45000-65000
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
Role Context
The Dry Utilities Lead - Infrastructure will provide strategic, technical, commercial, and operational leadership for dry utilities engineering across major infrastructure projects. The role strengthens project delivery by setting discipline standards, reviewing technical outputs, guiding design teams, managing authority interfaces, supporting client engagement, and ensuring that power, telecom, ICT, ELV, street lighting, and related dry utility systems are planned and delivered with accuracy, resilience, compliance, and long-term value.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the dry utilities engineering practice across technical direction, resource planning, workload balancing, team capability, delivery performance, and continuous improvement.
* Oversee the planning, design, review, and delivery of dry utility systems including power distribution, substation coordination, street lighting, telecommunications, ICT, ELV, duct banks, utility corridors, and related infrastructure networks.
* Establish and maintain technical standards, design procedures, checking protocols, review processes, quality controls, and discipline delivery requirements.
* Provide senior technical authority for load assessments, utility demand calculations, network layouts, equipment coordination, specifications, constructability, resilience planning, and regulatory compliance.
* Direct multidisciplinary coordination with roads, wet utilities, structures, landscape, BIM, GIS, digital drafting, project management, and other engineering disciplines.
* Review integrated design solutions to ensure dry utilities are properly coordinated with civil works, corridors, structures, services, authority requirements, and project phasing.
* Manage relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, utility service providers, and local authorities during submissions, NOCs, approvals, design reviews, and technical comment resolution.
* Support business development through client engagement, proposal input, technical methodologies, fee estimation, presentations, and pursuit planning for new opportunities.
* Monitor project performance, utilization, technical risk, design quality, delivery progress, and commercial outcomes across dry utilities workstreams.
* Implement corrective actions where needed to improve productivity, reduce delivery risk, strengthen quality, and support profitable project execution.
* Mentor engineers and technical staff through coaching, technical reviews, knowledge sharing, recruitment support, succession planning, and performance development.
* Champion innovation, digital delivery, BIM-enabled workflows, sustainability, lessons learned, and practical design improvements across dry utilities teams.
* Support authority coordination, NOC approvals, standards compliance, utility provider requirements, and regulatory management throughout the project lifecycle.
* Promote resilient and sustainable infrastructure integration through practical planning, risk awareness, digital engineering, and coordinated design delivery.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor\'s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
* Master\'s degree is preferred.
* Minimum 20 years of relevant experience in dry utilities engineering design, infrastructure project delivery, and discipline leadership.
* Strong background in power and telecom utility design management, multidisciplinary coordination, authority submissions, NOC processes, quality assurance, and project delivery.
* Comprehensive knowledge of power distribution, load scheduling, utility demand planning, network layouts, street lighting, telecommunications, ICT, ELV, duct banks, and utility corridor coordination.
* Strong understanding of applicable codes, design standards, local authority requirements, utility provider guidelines, and infrastructure approval processes.
* Proven ability to lead discipline teams, manage technical quality, mitigate delivery risks, and support efficient project execution.
* Experience working with clients, consultants, contractors, service providers, authorities, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
* Ability to support commercial delivery through resource planning, utilization monitoring, technical governance, proposal input, and delivery improvement.
* Excellent communication, report writing, presentation, stakeholder management, and client engagement skills.
* Strong technical judgment with the ability to guide design decisions, resolve complex coordination issues, and maintain high-quality outputs.
* Experience with BIM-enabled delivery, digital engineering workflows, sustainable infrastructure integration, and modern design coordination tools.
Skills Set
* Dry utilities design
* Electrical engineering leadership
* Power distribution
* Load assessment
* Utility demand calculations
* Load scheduling
* Network layout planning
* Substation coordination
* Street lighting design
* Telecommunications infrastructure
* ICT infrastructure
* ELV systems
* Duct bank design
* Utility corridor coordination
* Infrastructure planning
* Technical assurance
* Design management
* Multidisciplinary coordination
* Authority submissions
* NOC approvals
* Utility provider coordination
* Standards compliance
* Regulatory management
* Constructability review
* Resilience planning
* Quality assurance
* Technical risk management
* BIM-enabled delivery
* Digital engineering workflows
* Sustainable infrastructure
* Resource planning
* Proposal support
* Client engagement
* Team mentoring
Why Join Us
This opportunity allows the Dry Utilities Lead - Infrastructure to shape high-value infrastructure design delivery in Abu Dhabi Emirate while leading a critical engineering discipline that supports reliable power, communications, lighting, digital connectivity, and future-ready urban systems. The role offers senior influence over technical standards, client relationships, authority approvals, digital delivery, team development, and sustainable project performance within a global engineering environment.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, construction management, and infrastructure solutions company supporting major development programs across the Middle East. In the United Arab Emirates, Parsons delivers design, supervision, project management, utilities, transportation, buildings, public realm, environmental, and smart infrastructure services through strong technical leadership, disciplined coordination, and quality-focused project delivery.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Dry Utilities Lead - Infrastructure will provide strategic, technical, commercial, and operational leadership for dry utilities engineering across major infrastructure projects. The role strengthens project delivery by setting discipline standards, reviewing technical outputs, guiding design teams, managing authority interfaces, supporting client engagement, and ensuring that power, telecom, ICT, ELV, street lighting, and related dry utility systems are planned and delivered with accuracy, resilience, compliance, and long-term value.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead the dry utilities engineering practice across technical direction, resource planning, workload balancing, team capability, delivery performance, and continuous improvement.
* Oversee the planning, design, review, and delivery of dry utility systems including power distribution, substation coordination, street lighting, telecommunications, ICT, ELV, duct banks, utility corridors, and related infrastructure networks.
* Establish and maintain technical standards, design procedures, checking protocols, review processes, quality controls, and discipline delivery requirements.
* Provide senior technical authority for load assessments, utility demand calculations, network layouts, equipment coordination, specifications, constructability, resilience planning, and regulatory compliance.
* Direct multidisciplinary coordination with roads, wet utilities, structures, landscape, BIM, GIS, digital drafting, project management, and other engineering disciplines.
* Review integrated design solutions to ensure dry utilities are properly coordinated with civil works, corridors, structures, services, authority requirements, and project phasing.
* Manage relationships with clients, consultants, contractors, utility service providers, and local authorities during submissions, NOCs, approvals, design reviews, and technical comment resolution.
* Support business development through client engagement, proposal input, technical methodologies, fee estimation, presentations, and pursuit planning for new opportunities.
* Monitor project performance, utilization, technical risk, design quality, delivery progress, and commercial outcomes across dry utilities workstreams.
* Implement corrective actions where needed to improve productivity, reduce delivery risk, strengthen quality, and support profitable project execution.
* Mentor engineers and technical staff through coaching, technical reviews, knowledge sharing, recruitment support, succession planning, and performance development.
* Champion innovation, digital delivery, BIM-enabled workflows, sustainability, lessons learned, and practical design improvements across dry utilities teams.
* Support authority coordination, NOC approvals, standards compliance, utility provider requirements, and regulatory management throughout the project lifecycle.
* Promote resilient and sustainable infrastructure integration through practical planning, risk awareness, digital engineering, and coordinated design delivery.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor\'s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
* Master\'s degree is preferred.
* Minimum 20 years of relevant experience in dry utilities engineering design, infrastructure project delivery, and discipline leadership.
* Strong background in power and telecom utility design management, multidisciplinary coordination, authority submissions, NOC processes, quality assurance, and project delivery.
* Comprehensive knowledge of power distribution, load scheduling, utility demand planning, network layouts, street lighting, telecommunications, ICT, ELV, duct banks, and utility corridor coordination.
* Strong understanding of applicable codes, design standards, local authority requirements, utility provider guidelines, and infrastructure approval processes.
* Proven ability to lead discipline teams, manage technical quality, mitigate delivery risks, and support efficient project execution.
* Experience working with clients, consultants, contractors, service providers, authorities, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
* Ability to support commercial delivery through resource planning, utilization monitoring, technical governance, proposal input, and delivery improvement.
* Excellent communication, report writing, presentation, stakeholder management, and client engagement skills.
* Strong technical judgment with the ability to guide design decisions, resolve complex coordination issues, and maintain high-quality outputs.
* Experience with BIM-enabled delivery, digital engineering workflows, sustainable infrastructure integration, and modern design coordination tools.
Skills Set
* Dry utilities design
* Electrical engineering leadership
* Power distribution
* Load assessment
* Utility demand calculations
* Load scheduling
* Network layout planning
* Substation coordination
* Street lighting design
* Telecommunications infrastructure
* ICT infrastructure
* ELV systems
* Duct bank design
* Utility corridor coordination
* Infrastructure planning
* Technical assurance
* Design management
* Multidisciplinary coordination
* Authority submissions
* NOC approvals
* Utility provider coordination
* Standards compliance
* Regulatory management
* Constructability review
* Resilience planning
* Quality assurance
* Technical risk management
* BIM-enabled delivery
* Digital engineering workflows
* Sustainable infrastructure
* Resource planning
* Proposal support
* Client engagement
* Team mentoring
Why Join Us
This opportunity allows the Dry Utilities Lead - Infrastructure to shape high-value infrastructure design delivery in Abu Dhabi Emirate while leading a critical engineering discipline that supports reliable power, communications, lighting, digital connectivity, and future-ready urban systems. The role offers senior influence over technical standards, client relationships, authority approvals, digital delivery, team development, and sustainable project performance within a global engineering environment.
About the Company
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering, construction management, and infrastructure solutions company supporting major development programs across the Middle East. In the United Arab Emirates, Parsons delivers design, supervision, project management, utilities, transportation, buildings, public realm, environmental, and smart infrastructure services through strong technical leadership, disciplined coordination, and quality-focused project delivery.
