Description
We are seeking a Dry Utilities Planning Advisor to provide strategic leadership in the planning and integration of electrical power and telecommunications infrastructure for complex, large-scale developments.
The role requires deep experience across electrical and telecommunication network planning and design, including primary/secondary substations, distribution networks, and grid interface/tie-in strategies, as well as strong capability in demand forecasting, renewable energy integration, and energy modelling.
You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, coordinate across multidisciplinary teams, and produce decision-grade technical outputs from early feasibility and optioneering to enable robust, policy-aligned, and future-ready infrastructure outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic advisory leadership on dry utilities planning across power and telecommunication systems, supporting master planning, vision plans, and development frameworks from early feasibility through concept and pre-design stages.
- Translate land use, density, development mix, and phasing into high-level power and telecom infrastructure strategies, spatial reservations, and servicing principles that enable master plan outcomes.
- Define planning-level network architectures, including grid interface strategies, primary and secondary substation allocation, HV corridors, MV routing/looping concepts, LV distribution principles, and district-level infrastructure reservations, supported by indicative layout plans and corridor alignments appropriate to master planning and framework plan stages.
- Assess and advise on grid connection options, reinforcement requirements, and interface risks, aligning utility strategy with developmental sequencing, authority constraints, and long-term capacity needs.
- Lead demand forecasting and capacity planning using land-use-driven methodologies, diversity assumptions, and scenario-based growth trajectories, translate results into staged infrastructure investment and delivery pathways.
- Support the integration of renewable energy generation and storage solutions at district or city scale, advising on grid impacts, phasing implications, and strategic interface considerations rather than detailed system design.
- Undertake feasibility studies, technical optioneering, and advisory reviews to inform client decision-making, investment prioritization, and downstream design development.
- Prepare and review conceptual and masterplan-level dry utilities layout plans, including substation plots, HV/MV routing, telecom corridor planning, and utility plot safeguarding, ensuring alignment with land use, urban design intent, and phasing strategies.
- Act as client-facing technical advisor, clearly communicating planning strategies, risks, and recommendations through reports, workshops, and senior forums.
- Coordinate with utility authorities, regulators, and stakeholders to align on planning assumptions, corridor safeguarding, capacity interfaces, and approval considerations.
- Contribute to multidisciplinary infrastructure advisory teams, supporting integration across wet utilities, transport, sustainability, and delivery planning.
- Mentor junior planners and engineers, providing technical guidance, QA/QC oversight, and structured coaching in planning methodologies and advisory reporting.
- Deliver planning-level design outputs that define spatial strategy, constructability intent, and future design safeguards, without progressing to detailed engineering design or IFC documentation.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Master’s preferred).
- 10+ years’ experience in electrical spatial planning and utility master planning, including city-scale or large development programs (mixed-use, industrial, infrastructure corridors).
- Demonstrated capability across HV/MV/LV planning and design, including substations, distribution networks, and grid interfaces.
- Experience preparing and reviewing master planning level utility layouts, spatial diagrams, and concept schematics to support master planning and early design decision making.
- Proven experience delivering feasibility studies, demand forecasting, and planning-level assessments.
- Strong client-facing track record and experience leading multidisciplinary teams/workstreams.
- Middle East experience is preferred.
Personal Skills
- Clear, structured communicator with strong technical report writing and presentation skills.
- Confident advisor capable of guiding clients through uncertainty and early-stage decision-making.
- Strong integrator, comfortable coordinating across disciplines and balancing competing objectives.
- Detailed-oriented with a robust QA/QC mindset, while maintaining focus on strategic outcomes rather than design mandates.