Engineering Interface Department Manager

Role overview

This role is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all design and engineering activities across projects, ensuring alignment of scope, schedules, and deliverables with the overall project master plan. It involves close coordination with technical design teams and consultants to ensure timely, accurate, and complete design outputs that meet project requirements.

The position includes monitoring the performance of design consultants, managing discipline engineers, and reviewing design strategies to provide recommendations to the client. It also covers the evaluation of variation orders, participation in key stakeholder meetings, and ensuring all necessary permits and approvals are secured from relevant authorities.

Additionally, the role ensures the timely delivery of tender documentation, provides technical input to consultants, and supports forward planning of project requirements. A key aspect is improving departmental structure, processes, and tools in line with international best practices, while maintaining compliance with quality, safety, and organizational standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage all necessary interfaces and coordination of the design and engineering works to ensure alignment of scope and schedule of all projects.
• Coordinate with the technical design teams to ensure their design delivery schedule aligns with the master schedule of project delivery.
• Monitor the performance of the design consultants to ensure correctness, completeness, and compliance with scope of work requirements.
• Control and manage senior discipline engineers of the project management team with respect to design aspects.
• Evaluate and endorse variation orders and concession requests submitted by the design consultants for client approval.
• Attend all meetings with design consultants, sub-consultants, and clients.
• Review project design strategy and make recommendations to the client.
• Assist, monitor, and ensure timely submissions of all documents from design consultants to government departments until final permits are obtained to proceed with works until completion.
• Ensure that consultants deliver tender documents as per the tendering plan.
• Provide necessary project input data to technical design consultants.
• Regularly update the technical department on future project requirements.
• Develop and rectify department operating structure including organizational chart, roles, responsibilities, and tools to be deployed such as software applying international best practices.
• Ensure compliance with relevant quality, environmental, safety, and occupational health policies, manuals, and procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager or supervisor.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor or Master of Engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum 20 years of experience in water and wastewater projects design, engineering works, and project management.
• Knowledge of water and wastewater master planning.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Experience working with or managing engineering consultants.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About the company

The company provides program management, project management, construction management, project management oversight, advisory, facilities management, and other consulting services to clients in a variety of market sectors. It is recognized as one of the largest program management firms globally. The company focuses exclusively on program, project, and construction management, protecting client interests and helping clients achieve their desired outcomes. It is dedicated to exceeding expectations throughout the entire construction project lifecycle and adapts to the needs of each assignment to develop tailored approaches and solutions.

The company is part of a global infrastructure solutions group of companies.

Equal opportunity

The company is an equal opportunity employer and supports veterans and disabled individuals.

Note

This job description is intended to provide an indication of the nature and levels of work, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other essential functions to be carried out as part of fulfilling the role. Various other duties may be required.