Senior Design Manager – Infrastructure, Oman

Job description

Role Purpose

SSH is seeking an accomplished Senior Design Manager – Infrastructure to lead the design and delivery of infrastructure packages for major master plans and large-scale development projects in Oman.

The role will be responsible for managing the multidisciplinary infrastructure design process, ensuring effective integration between roads, utilities, grading, drainage, wet and dry utilities, and the wider master plan. The successful candidate will provide strong technical and design leadership while coordinating with clients, authorities, consultants and internal design teams from concept through detailed design and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design management of large-scale infrastructure and master planning projects from concept through detailed design and tender stages.

• Manage and coordinate multidisciplinary infrastructure packages including roads, highways, wet utilities, dry utilities, stormwater drainage, grading and utility corridors.

• Ensure infrastructure strategies are fully integrated with master planning, architectural, landscape, transportation and development requirements.

• Establish and manage design programmes, deliverables, design reviews and key project milestones.

• Provide leadership to multidisciplinary engineering and design teams, ensuring coordinated and technically robust solutions.

• Drive design coordination and interface management across infrastructure disciplines and other project stakeholders.

• Review technical submissions, design reports, drawings, specifications and infrastructure strategies for quality, constructability and compliance.

• Manage relationships with clients, government authorities, utility providers, developers and external consultants.

• Lead design workshops, technical meetings, coordination sessions and stakeholder presentations.

• Identify and manage design risks, interfaces and technical constraints throughout the project lifecycle.

• Ensure designs comply with relevant Oman regulations, authority requirements, international standards and SSH quality procedures.

• Promote value engineering, sustainability and innovative design solutions while maintaining project objectives for quality, programme and cost.

• Support project directors in resource planning, project delivery strategies and management of design performance.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or a related engineering discipline; Master’s degree would be advantageous.

• Professional engineering qualification or chartership is preferred.

• Typically 20+ years of relevant experience, with substantial experience managing multidisciplinary infrastructure design.

• Proven track record delivering large-scale master plans, urban developments and major infrastructure-led development projects.

• Strong experience working for a multidisciplinary engineering/design consultancy is highly desirable.

• Broad understanding of roads, utilities, drainage, earthworks, grading and infrastructure planning.

• Strong capability in managing complex interfaces between infrastructure, master planning, buildings, landscape and transportation disciplines.

• Experience managing projects through concept, schematic/preliminary and detailed design stages.

• Experience in Oman, GCC or wider Middle East markets would be highly advantageous.

• Excellent client-facing, stakeholder management, leadership and communication skills.

• Ability to lead multiple disciplines and drive design decisions within complex, fast-paced projects.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are particularly interested in candidates who have worked with leading international or regional design consultancies and have led infrastructure design on major master planned communities, new urban developments, tourism destinations, mixed-use developments or other large-scale development programmes.

The ideal candidate will combine strong infrastructure technical knowledge with senior-level design management capability, rather than being focused purely on the technical delivery of a single infrastructure discipline.