About the role
A Muscat-based multidisciplinary consultant is setting up a marine design office in Chennai. The office will design marinas and waterfront developments, commercial port infrastructure and coastal protection works, and support the firm's bids for marine projects in Oman. We are looking for a Marine Design Lead to build and lead this team. Location: Chennai. This is an office-based role in a new office we are establishing.
What you’ll do
- Own the marine design output of the Chennai office
- Lead layout and master planning and the design of quay walls, jetties, piers, berthing structures, dolphins, breakwaters and revetments, including mooring and fendering analysis
- Lead the technical side of our marine bids
- Review every calculation and drawing the team produces
- Scope and direct the specialist inputs we engage per project, such as coastal modelling, geotechnics, dredging, metocean studies, navigation advice and environmental work
- Help recruit and mentor the office's engineers as it grows
What you’ll need
- A degree in civil engineering
- Around 12 to 15 or more years designing marine or port infrastructure, with time spent leading design work
- Berthing and waterfront structures designed to recognised marine codes and standards such as PIANC guidance, Eurocodes or BS
- Experience preparing the technical part of consultancy bids
- Chartered status with a recognised professional body is an advantage
- This is a senior, hands-on role: you will design as well as lead
Keywords
MarinePortsQuay wallsBreakwatersCoastal protectionMooring and fenderingBid preparation
About Established engineering office
An established multidisciplinary architecture and engineering office in Muscat. We deliver masterplanning, architecture, structures, MEP and infrastructure for private and government clients, often as the local partner and architect of record for international design firms.
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