DAMS Technical Solutions Consultant

About the Role

Dar Al Riyadh Consultants is seeking a DAMS Technical Solutions Consultant to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role involves assessing, developing, and improving dam operating systems and associated assets, providing multidisciplinary engineering advice, and recommending optimization solutions for critical dam infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the condition, reliability, and operational performance of dams and associated assets.
• Develop technical studies, engineering reports, and practical solutions for 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 clear daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and technical reports as required.
• 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.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role may require site visits across Saudi Arabia.