Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Wet Utilities

Ready to shape the region’s infrastructure with Buro Happold? We’re looking for a passionate Associate Wet Utilities Engineer to join our UAE infrastructure team and help deliver sustainable and innovative water infrastructure solutions across the region.

Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional. 

From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with, from career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships, wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it will be anything but ordinary.

Your next role

Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive. You will be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. All of Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that is the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make an impact and leave a real legacy.

Your key duties

We are seeking a motivated Associate - Wet Utilities to support the planning, design, and delivery of civil infrastructure and wet utility networks across some of the region’s most ambitious infrastructure and masterplanning projects.

As part of our regional infrastructure team, you will:

• Support the planning, design, and delivery of wet utility infrastructure across a range of complex and high-profile developments in the UAE.
• Contribute to the design and coordination of wet utilities systems including:
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  • Potable water distribution networks
  • Foul sewer systems
  • Stormwater drainage
  • Surface water management and flood mitigation measures

• Assist in developing utility strategies within urban and regional masterplans and prepare and review layouts, hydraulic calculations, design reports, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including civil engineering, transport, environmental, and urban planning.
• Support the preparation of design submissions, technical reports, and client deliverables while assisting in design coordination, clash detection, and optimisation of utility corridors.
• Ensure designs are developed in accordance with UAE authority standards and approval requirements, including Dubai Municipality, DEWA, and other relevant authorities.
• Maintain design calculations, assumptions, and documentation in line with established QA/QC procedures.
• Support modelling and analysis using industry-standard tools such as Civil 3D and hydraulic modelling software.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience in Infrastructure design within consultancy, engineering, or utility sectors.
• Familiarity with UAE authority standards and submission processes is advantageous.
• Strong analytical, coordination, and problem‑solving skills.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with tools like AutoCAD, Civil 3D, or MicroStation is beneficial.

What we offer you

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies. 

• Hybrid working arrangements
• Attractive salary and benefits package
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you 
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions  
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional. 

At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday. 

Apply today and be a part of our legacy.  

A place for everyone 

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.   

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. 

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments, we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. 

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