Manager - Road And Highway Design

Job Description

The role ensures all roadway designs, alignments, access points, and mobility solutions comply with AD Ports’ development standards, DMT regulations, and infrastructure requirements. The position supports the one-stop approval process by providing expert engineering evaluation, resolving design issues, and coordinating with authorities and stakeholders to ensure safe, efficient, and integrated road networks.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical review of all road and highway design submissions, ensuring compliance with AD Ports’ development standards, DMT regulations, and national roadway design guidelines.
• Review geometric design, road cross sections, horizontal and vertical alignments, pavement design, junction layouts, access points, and mobility strategies to ensure safe and efficient traffic movement.
• Evaluate traffic impact studies, access management plans, vehicle circulation, turning radii, parking layouts, and public transport integration for proposed developments.
• Assess connectivity to existing road networks, ensuring appropriate tie-ins, right-of-way allocations, and alignment with master-plan infrastructure requirements.
• Review and coordinate utility corridor layouts within road reserves, ensuring adequate space allocation for wet and dry utilities according to authority standards.
• Provide technical comments and recommendations to developers, consultants, and internal stakeholders to resolve design issues and improve road network functionality.
• Analyze road safety considerations including visibility, pedestrian crossings, intersection control, speed-calming measures, and site-specific constraints.
• Coordinate with planning, urban design, infrastructure, and environmental teams to ensure integrated development solutions throughout master-planned areas.
• Review submissions related to plot access, driveway permits, heavy-vehicle movement, logistics routes, and industrial traffic requirements.
• Ensure all road and highway designs incorporate sustainability, walkability, shade structures, universal access, and multimodal mobility considerations.
• Participate in stakeholder and authority meetings, providing professional input on road layouts, transport planning, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Monitor updates to road design standards, traffic regulations, DMT manuals, and best practices, ensuring AD Ports’ review processes remain compliant.
• Prepare technical reports, review summaries, and approval recommendations for internal decision-making and external authority submissions.
• Support improvements to the design-review workflow by ensuring clear, timely, and coordinated responses to developers and consultants.
  
  

• Coordinate with roads, transport, traffic engineering, and infrastructure consultants to ensure accurate, compliant, and well-integrated road-network proposals.
• Manage consultant deliverables from concept stage through detailed design, ensuring timelines, quality, and regulatory alignment.
• Conduct design review workshops to resolve technical issues related to road geometry, traffic impacts, utilities interfaces, and access management.
• Provide consultants with clear technical comments, design directions, and requirements for revisions and authority submissions.
• Support leadership with roadway diagrams, circulation studies, and layout alternatives to facilitate decision-making and approvals.
  
  

• Degree in Civil Engineering, or an associated field. Master’s Degree or equivalent preferred
• Written and Spoken English is essential, Arabic is preferred
• Degree in Electrical Engineering or associated field. Master’s Degree or equivalent preferred
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Urban Planning with multi discipline approach.
• Min. 5 Years local experience.
• Written and Spoken English is essential; Arabic is preferred
• Use road-design software and tools such as AutoCAD, Civil 3D, vehicle-swept-path analysis software, GIS, and traffic modeling tools to review and assess design submissions.
• Interpret alignment drawings, pavement design reports, traffic analyses, utilities layouts, and right-of-way maps from a road and highway design perspective.
• Evaluate geometric alignments, sight distances, cross-sections, and road safety elements using design standards and engineering tools.