Senior Manager - Utilities

Parsons Corporation

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Manager - Utilities /strong>to join our team! In this role you will get to provide utilities' specific design management on one of Abu Dhabi's largest clients. /strong>

Core Responsibilities:

• Review utility master plans, capacity assessments, demand calculations, and detailed network designs submitted by developers to ensure compliance with utility authority standards and AD Ports infrastructure strategies.

• Evaluate submissions related to water supply, firefighting networks, irrigation, sewerage systems, storm drainage, district cooling, power supply, telecom infrastructure, and gas networks.

• Verify that proposed utility networks integrate seamlessly with existing and planned AD Ports infrastructure, ensuring proper connectivity, redundancy, and resilience.

• Issue Master Developer/Owner utility NOCs for authority submissions, consolidating comments from planning, infrastructure, environmental, and operations teams.

• Assess the feasibility of proposed utility loads, connection points, and diversions, and coordinate requirements with ADDC, ADSSC, Transco, Etisalat, Du, and other utility providers.

• Review utility corridor designs, right-of-way requirements, allocation of dry and wet utility corridors, and cross-sectional layouts to ensure safe and efficient utility distribution.

• Support plot-level applications involving utility connections, diversions, relocation works, or additional load requests.

• Participate in technical meetings with developers, consultants, and authorities to resolve comments, clarify compliance issues, and expedite approvals.

• Ensure that infrastructure designs consider long-term operations, maintenance access, safety standards, and capacity for future expansion.

• Maintain accurate records of approved load allocations, utility capacities, network updates, and ongoing infrastructure commitments.

• Prepare technical reports, review summaries, authority submission letters, and utility correspondence.

• Stay up to date with utility authority regulations, infrastructure design standards, and new technologies relevant to industrial and mixed-use developments.

Tools & Visualization Capabilities:

• Proficient in infrastructure design tools and modelling platforms such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, hydraulic modelling software, GIS, and other utility analysis tools.

• Able to evaluate hydraulic calculations, load schedules, manhole layouts, pipe sizing, voltage drop analyses, and utility corridor configurations.

• Capable of preparing quick sketches, utility layouts, and mark-ups to support design reviews and coordination meetings.

Consultant Oversight & Management:

• Coordinate with multi-disciplinary utility consultants covering water, wastewater, power, telecom, gas, stormwater, and district cooling systems to ensure integrated and compliant design outputs.

• Manage review cycles from concept through detailed design, ensuring that consultant deliverables meet the required timelines, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.

• Facilitate technical workshops with consultants, contractors, internal teams, and authorities to address utility conflicts, align infrastructure strategies, and finalize approvals.