SECTION MANAGER, STRUCTURAL DESIGN

Job Purpose

Lead, manage, and develop the Structural Design Section by ensuring the delivery of safe, reliable, and cost-effective structural solutions in compliance with international standards, project requirements, and objectives. Focus on guiding the design team, reviewing and approving technical outputs, and supporting cross-disciplinary collaboration to achieve project excellence.

Key Accountability Areas

Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead and supervise the structural design team to ensure effective task allocation, productivity, and quality outcomes.
• Mentor, coach, and support team members to enhance technical capabilities and professional growth.
• Manage team workload, set priorities, and monitor performance to meet project deadlines and objectives.

Structural Design Oversight & Validation

• Review, approve, and validate all structural calculations, drawings, and technical deliverables.
• Ensure accuracy, technical soundness, and constructability of designs.
• Conduct quality checks and risk assessments to mitigate potential design issues.
• Provide solutions to complex structural challenges and ensure alignment with project requirements.

Standards, Compliance & Quality Assurance

• Ensure that all structural designs comply with relevant international codes (e.g., ACI, BS, Eurocodes), local regulations, and client specifications.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends, new materials, and technological advancements.

Cross-Disciplinary & Stakeholder Coordination

• Collaborate with civil, architectural, MEP, and other engineering teams to achieve fully integrated project solutions.
• Represent the structural design team in project meetings and present technical justifications when required.

Strategic Planning & Best Practices

• Develop, implement, and monitor design strategies, policies, and standards for the Structural Design Section.
• Recommend innovative design solutions and methodologies to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Project Participation & Decision-Making Support

• Participate in tender evaluations, design reviews, and project progress meetings.
• Provide expert technical guidance and input to support decision-making at project and organizational levels.
• Ensure timely delivery of design outputs to support overall project schedules.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies