About the Role
In a world of possibilities, this role as a Stakeholder Coordinator (Infrastructure/Stormwater) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, offers the opportunity to thrive, work with exceptional people, and express your true self. You will play a pivotal part in coordinating with government authorities, utility providers, developers, and project stakeholders to facilitate design approvals, permits, and No Objection Certificates (NOCs). This position is essential for ensuring that all project milestones are met while navigating potential design conflicts and approval risks.
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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 of 3 years’ experience in infrastructure or stormwater projects in Abu Dhabi.
- Proven experience in stakeholder coordination, authority approvals, and NOC management for infrastructure and development projects.
- Strong knowledge of Abu Dhabi municipality requirements, authority procedures, engineering submission standards, and utility coordination processes.
- Ability to review and interpret engineering drawings, utility layouts, road geometry, and service corridor plans.
- Experience coordinating with multidisciplinary engineering teams and resolving technical interface issues.
- Arabic speaker preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel-based approval trackers, and document management systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic language skills would be 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.
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