Dams Technical Solutions Consultant📣 إعلان

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh is seeking a Dams Technical Solutions Consultant to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves providing specialized technical expertise in the assessment, operation, and maintenance of dams and associated water infrastructure. The consultant will be responsible for developing practical solutions and ensuring the reliability and performance of critical dam assets.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the condition, reliability, and operational performance of dams and associated assets.
• Develop technical studies, engineering reports, and practical solutions to enhance dam operating systems.
• Review existing operating philosophies, systems, procedures, and technical standards.
• Identify deficiencies, recurring failures, performance gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Provide multidisciplinary engineering advice covering civil, hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, and control systems.
• Review technical submissions, designs, calculations, method statements, specifications, and contractor proposals.
• Recommend rehabilitation, upgrade, replacement, and optimization solutions for critical dam assets.
• Establish, maintain, and improve technical databases, asset registers, and engineering information systems.
• Verify the accuracy, completeness, and quality of technical and asset information.
• Support the classification of critical assets and the assessment of their condition and operational risks.
• Assess productivity, asset reliability, and operational performance against agreed KPIs and service levels.
• Conduct root-cause analysis of complex technical and operational problems.
• Develop corrective and preventive recommendations and monitor their implementation.
• Support the preparation and improvement of operations and maintenance manuals, procedures, and technical guidelines.
• Review preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance strategies.
• Provide technical input to scopes of work, specifications, bills of quantities, and dam O&M contracts.
• Review contractors’ technical performance and verify compliance with contractual and engineering requirements.
• Monitor the implementation of strategic plans, improvement initiatives, and engineering recommendations.
• Promote the adoption of suitable technologies, monitoring systems, and recognized international practices.
• Prepare daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and technical reports as required by the assignment.
• Present technical findings, risks, recommendations, and required decisions to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate with government stakeholders, consultants, contractors, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Attend technical meetings, inspections, and site visits anywhere in Saudi Arabia as required.
• Comply with Saudi laws, applicable codes, client procedures, quality requirements, and occupational health and safety obligations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another dam-related discipline from a recognized university.
• Relevant master’s degree from a recognized university.
• Minimum of 16 years of professional experience in dam operations and maintenance, water-system design, or water-infrastructure project management.
• Demonstrated experience developing technical solutions for dams, water-retaining structures, or associated infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of dam operating systems, maintenance requirements, asset condition assessment, and risk reduction.
• Experience reviewing engineering designs, technical reports, calculations, specifications, and contractor submissions.
• Proven ability to analyze complex multidisciplinary technical problems and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong technical-reporting, presentation, and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Relevant experience must be supported by verifiable employment records, project references, technical reports, or studies when requested.

Preferred Attributes

• At least 8 years of experience leading multidisciplinary technical or engineering teams.
• Experience managing or advising on large dam portfolios or national water-infrastructure programs.
• Previous experience with government or public-sector clients in Saudi Arabia.
• Experience in dam rehabilitation, asset optimization, instrumentation, monitoring, and emergency-response planning.
• Familiarity with international dam-safety standards and recognized engineering practices.
• Knowledge of asset-management systems, computerized maintenance management systems, and technical databases.
• Professional engineering registration and membership of a recognized engineering institution.
• Registration with the Saudi Council of Engineers where applicable.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, requiring travel for technical meetings, inspections, and site visits across the country as needed.