Senior Geothermal Engineer - Design Review
About this role
KEO is a creative enterprise, where innovation is a way of life. We are uniquely resourced with end-to-end services to take clients from inspiration – through conceptualization – to realization of planning, design or project delivery in the built and natural environments. For over 60 years we’ve led with vision, contributing to many of the world’s most ambitious projects, iconic places, remarkable experiences and prosperous communities.
As a highly integrated and agile AEP/PMCM firm, KEO is recognized by ENR as one of the Top 225 International Design Firms and one of the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms. We are also ranked by World Architecture as the 51st largest global architecture firm and the #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2024 WA100 Survey.
We invite you to join us. Why?
When you join KEO, you’ll discover more than just a job – you’ll find a supportive environment that fosters your professional development through internal global mobility and career development and does so within a culture that supports company-wide health and well-being through on-demand counselling services and regular workplace clinics. You will be invited to celebrate community events such as sports days, fun-runs, in-house sports teams and beach clean ups. In addition to your competitive package and benefits you will have access to a suite of policies that include hybrid working arrangements, individual athletic sponsorship, study assistance sponsorship, employee referral rewards.
Responsibilities
Our newest opportunity is for a talented Senior Geothermal Engineer to join our award-winning team.
Distance work can be considered if the candidate is based in their home nation (Outside of the GCC).
This critical role will work as part of the Design Review & Technical Services Team, having a strong technical design background with some hands-on experience in the field (site).
We envisage success in this role to include:
- Perform independent technical reviews of geothermal system designs at concept, schematic, detailed design, and IFC stages.
- Review geothermal feasibility studies, thermal response test results, borefield layouts, well designs, and energy models.
- Validate design assumptions, calculations, modelling methodologies, and system performance criteria.
- Identify technical risks, gaps, inconsistencies, and non-compliances, and provide clear, actionable review comments.
- Assess constructability, operability, maintainability, and long-term system performance.
- Verify compliance with Client requirements, local authority regulations, international codes, and industry best practices.
- Review alignment with sustainability frameworks (e.g., LEED, BREEAM, regional codes in the GCC) and decarbonization strategies.
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary design review teams including MEP, sustainability, energy, civil, and geotechnical specialists.
- Review geothermal system interfaces with HVAC, electrical, controls, and building management systems.
- Participate in design review workshops and technical meetings with Clients, designers, and stakeholders.
- Prepare formal design review reports, executive summaries, and risk registers.
- Track review comments, responses, and close-out through successive design stages.
- Provide technical recommendations to support Client approvals and design endorsements.
Qualifications
To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that you will have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Energy Engineering, Geothermal Engineering, or related discipline.
- Master’s degree in Renewable Energy or Geothermal Engineering (preferred).
- Minimum 15 years of experience in geothermal system design and/or independent design review.
- Demonstrable experience reviewing complex, large-scale developments or infrastructure projects.
KEO’s performance is founded upon integrity, results, innovation, safety and our people. We embrace diversity and recognise its’ contribution to client success wherever we work.
We are excited to hear how you can partner with our award-winning team and treat all expressions of interest confidentially.
What you'll do
- The Senior Geothermal Engineer will perform independent technical reviews of geothermal system designs and validate design assumptions and calculations. They will also assess constructability and compliance with client requirements and industry best practices.
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