Principal Drainage Engineer

Full Time @Parsons Corporation in Civil Engineering
  • Post Date : April 5, 2026
  • Salary: Negotiable

About the job

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Principal Drainage Engineer to join our team! In this role you will be given an opportunity to work across a wide variety of projects and further develop their skills and leadership expertise.
What You’ll Be Doing

  • Civil and Transport infrastructure drainage design.
  • Detailed analysis and review of hydrological and hydraulic models.
  • Provide technical design expertise for drainage and stormwater quality systems, including piped networks and major transverse drainage structures. Embrace and promote a leading digital work environment and delivery culture
  • Hydraulic and System design of the complex environment to meet site-specific requirements.
  • Applying knowledge and experience of the biological and physical process of stormwater management.
  • Applying innovative ideas, technology, and value engineering solutions
  • Supervision/Mentoring and support to intermediate and junior engineers including taking responsibility for the QA/QC of deliverables.
  • Undertake hydrologic modeling, calculations, drawings, report writing, design review, and supervision.
  • Leading the projects, taking a high level of responsibility, acting as a project lead and building a strong relationship with clients, and obtaining design approvals.
  • Coordinating with the CAD / BIM / 3-D modeling teams on projects.

What Required Skills You’ll Bring

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Civil/ Hydraulic/ Hydrology/ Water and/or Environmental Engineering.
  • Minimum 12 years of experience in water engineering, including stormwater drainage design in civil and transport projects, stormwater management, and planning.
  • Sound knowledge of principles of hydrology and hydraulics.
  • Demonstrated understanding of hydrologic and hydraulic modeling/design software packages used in the design of surface drainage, piped networks, cross drainage, and flood analysis, i.e., CAD skills, SWMM, HEC RAS, and HEC-HMS knowledge
  • Experience with Infoworks ICM, 1D/2D is compulsory.
  • Excellent command with GIS and CAD tools such as ArcMap, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and Microstation.
  • The capability of mathematics to create calculation sheets and perform further calculations where required to ensure the design is appropriate.
  • Knowledge of Water Sensitive Design and Sustainable Drainage Design (SuDS).
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • A collegiate, team-player attitude
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) qualified (or equivalent) or well-progressed towards qualification.
  • Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and encourage collaboration
  • Ability to handle multiple projects and deliver results within the project timeline.

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring

  • A Master’s degree in Water Engineering/Hydrology would be an advantage
  • Experience working in Doha and wider GCC countries, including a knowledge of local standards and processes
  • Hands-on experience in the automation of design workflows including tools such as large language model (AI chatbots), python, ruby script, VBA, dynamo, grasshopper

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