Principal Engineer

This position within AtkinsRéalis' Middle East Design Team focuses on delivering innovative, sustainable, and technically robust solutions across all MEP disciplines, including HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing, and Public Health Engineering. The role demands strong technical leadership, the ability to act as a Subject Matter Expert, and a growing reputation both internally and externally. Responsibilities include leading complex design packages, ensuring "Safe by Design" principles, driving digital transformation, and promoting quality and technical governance. The candidate will contribute to business strategy through research and innovation, mentor teams, and support knowledge management initiatives, while maintaining commercial awareness and client engagement. This is an opportunity to influence multidisciplinary projects, develop technical capability within the team, and progress toward senior technical authority roles.

• Takes a leadership role and trusted to make decisions, typically at group / team level or within a specific area of the business. Develops capabilities within their own team.

• High level of accountability. Drives the strategic direction of an aspect of the business to achieve desired business outcome.

• Known to the LPO senior team and their "first choice" for advice.

• Able to understand a client's problem and bring the different capabilities of Atkins together, to develop a solution.

• Strong knowledge of the fundamental concepts, principles and theories of system integration as applied to multi-disciplinary designs.

• Strong understanding of principles of assurance and compliance as defined and applied within the relevant industry environment.

• Engages with internal and external stakeholders and negotiates successfully.

• Able to drive technical input to bids and provide clear USPs in technological field.

• Communicates complex ideas, anticipates potential objections and persuades others, often at senior levels to adopt different points of view.

Values:

• Adheres to Safety requirements, identifies hazards, asks questions when in doubt and recommends solutions to manage them.

• Demonstrates professional behaviors. Understands the impact of their behaviour and appropriateness of responses.

• Tailor's unique style and approach in response to the requirements of new situations, demonstrates tact, sensitivity and empathy.

• Keen to develop and update the professional qualifications, learn, and apply new skills. Takes personal initiative in seeking advice and learning opportunities.

• Cautious while handling confidences and confidential information; does not release the same, until business dictates.

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.

• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.

• Generous annual leave balance.

• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.

• Remote work opportunities outside of country.

• Company gratuity scheme.

• Discretionary bonus program.

• Relocation assistance.

• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.