About the Role:
Join a dynamic team as a Senior Stakeholder Coordinator, where you'll play a crucial role in managing interactions with government authorities, utility providers, and project stakeholders. This position is designed for individuals who are eager to thrive in a collaborative environment, facilitating design approvals and ensuring project milestones are met efficiently.
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What You'll Be Doing:
- Coordinate with relevant government authorities, utility providers, developers, and project stakeholders to facilitate design approvals, permits, and NOCs.
- Manage and follow up on authority submissions throughout concept, preliminary, and detailed design stages.
- Review engineering drawings, technical submissions, and supporting documentation to ensure alignment with authority requirements before submission.
- Coordinate No Objection Information (NOI) requests, utility data collection, and existing infrastructure verification.
- Support Concept Master Plan, Detailed Master Plan, traffic-related approvals, road geometry, and utility corridor submissions.
- Identify potential design conflicts, utility interface issues, and approval risks, and coordinate their timely resolution with engineering teams.
- Maintain authority approval trackers, submission registers, correspondence records, and stakeholder action logs.
- Attend technical coordination meetings with authorities, clients, consultants, and internal design teams.
- Monitor approval progress, identify potential delays, and escalate critical issues to the Stakeholder Manager.
- Ensure effective coordination between multidisciplinary design teams and external stakeholders to support project milestones.
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or a relevant engineering discipline.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in Abu Dhabi.
- Proven experience in stakeholder coordination, authority approvals, and NOC management for infrastructure or development projects.
- Strong understanding of Abu Dhabi municipalities, authority procedures, engineering submission requirements, and utility coordination processes.
- Ability to review and understand engineering drawings, utility layouts, road geometry, and service corridor plans.
- Experience coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering teams and resolving technical interface issues.
- Arabic Speaker.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel-based approval trackers, and document management systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, with Arabic considered an advantage.
- Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and follow-up skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities independently.
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- Previous experience with major engineering consultancy firms in Abu Dhabi.
- Familiarity with DMT/ADM, IDAS, NOC, TPD, and utility authority approval processes.
- Working knowledge of AutoCAD and GIS-based engineering information.
- Experience with master planning, infrastructure design coordination, and complex stakeholder interfaces.
- Ability to anticipate approval risks and recommend practical solutions before they affect project delivery.
Benefits:
We invest in our employees' wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities, ensuring that you can achieve your full potential.
Contract & Travel:
Details regarding contract types and travel requirements can be discussed further during the hiring process.
