Group Engineer-Public Health Engineering

About the role

This position within AtkinsRéalis’ Middle East Design Team focuses on delivering innovative, sustainable, and technically robust solutions across all MEP disciplines, including HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, and Public Health Engineering. The role demands strong technical leadership, the ability to act as a Subject Matter Expert, and a growing reputation both internally and externally. Responsibilities include leading complex design packages, ensuring “Safe by Design” principles, driving digital transformation, and promoting quality and technical governance. The candidate will contribute to business strategy through research and innovation, mentor teams, and support knowledge management initiatives, while maintaining commercial awareness and client engagement. This is an opportunity to influence multidisciplinary projects, develop technical capability within the team, and progress toward senior technical authority roles.

What you’ll do

• Produces innovative solutions.
• Clearly marshals and delivers thoughts on paper, provides clear and detailed documents.
• Able to take over a technical lead role, with a growing reputation internally and externally within their field.
• Can take on Subject Matter Expert role within discipline, growing towards a Professional Head of Discipline or Technical Authority role.
• Able to provide leadership on “Safe by Design” on projects and review our approach to hierarchical risk elimination, mitigation and controls.
• Undertakes specialist/complex packages of work and function as a Discipline Technical Reviewer on Medium technical risk projects within their own discipline.
• Able to present their technical work and that of their colleagues in their field to clients.
• Contributes to and researches the development of existing and new areas of technology/capabilities to inform business strategy.
• Promotes the importance of quality within their business.
• Acts as a Technical reviewer/signatory on low/medium-risk projects and bids.
• Familiar with the commercial governance, systems and project management governance.

What you’ll bring

• Relevant professional qualifications or demonstrate very good progress towards these e.g. CEng, RIBA, CEnv, P.Eng, P.E, APM etc.
• Take up the responsibilities of a line manager and manage a small team.
• Implement Sustainability or Net Zero initiatives in all the projects.
• Train and upskill the junior staff on any relevant tools or technical skills.
• Able to reliably manage a team and carries out supervision of junior staff.
• Good exposure to and involvement with clients.
• Has led small teams of staff to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Proactive and determined to deliver against stretching targets.
• Able to lead and deliver tasks or lesser complex projects, generally single discipline, to time, cost and quality.
• Build relationships with limited sets of LPO colleagues.

Benefits

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.