Discipline Manager: Irrigation

<div><h3>Discipline Manager: Irrigation - (ENG-L8.78)</h3><p><b>Zutari: Co-creating an Engineered Impact</b></p><p>Zutari is a purpose-driven, management-owned engineering and advisory firm with over 90 years of experience across the Middle East and Africa. We are human-centred consultants who collaborate with clients, communities, and partners to co-create sustainable infrastructure solutions that leave a positive and lasting legacy.</p><p>In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Zutari is playing a critical role in supporting the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 goals by delivering innovative, sustainable water solutions that address water scarcity, urbanization, and environmental stewardship.</p><p><b>About the Role</b></p><p>The Discipline Manager (Irrigation) will lead the irrigation design review and site delivery assurance on behalf of the PMC, ensuring irrigation systems are safe, compliant, constructible, cost-effective, and aligned to programme, quality, and sustainability objectives. The role provides technical governance across the full lifecycle, concept/design review through construction, testing, commissioning and handover coordinating closely with landscape, utilities, civil, electrical/controls, and O&M stakeholders.</p><p><b>Key Objectives / Outcomes</b></p><ul><li>Provide technical authority for irrigation across the programme and act as the PMC’s focal point for all irrigation matters.</li><li>Ensure designs meet Saudi/local authority requirements and project standards, with clear risk management and constructability.</li><li>Drive on-time, right-first-time delivery through rigorous review, RFIs resolution, and field quality oversight.</li><li>Deliver efficient water use through appropriate system selection, zoning, scheduling, and controls aligned to site water strategy.</li><li>Manage irrigation engineers/inspectors (where applicable), discipline reviewers, specialist consultants.</li><li>Key interfaces: Client technical team, design consultants, contractors/subcontractors, landscape architect, utilities/civils, electrical/SCADA/BMS, HSE, QA/QC, planning, commercial/claims, authority liaison.</li></ul><p><b>Core Responsibilities (PMC Scope)</b></p><p><b>A) Design Management&Technical Assurance</b></p><ul><li>Lead irrigation discipline input and design reviews (concept, schematic, detailed design, IFC) and issue consolidated review comments.</li><li>Validate basis of design, hydraulic calculations, network zoning, pressure management, pipe sizing/material selection, valve and emitter selection, filtration, fertigation (if applicable), and controls philosophy.</li><li>Ensure integration with Landscape design intent and plant palettes; Water sources (potable/TSE/groundwater/desalinated as applicable), storage, pumping; Drainage, utilities corridors, roadworks, and structures; Electrical power, telemetry, SCADA/BMS interfaces and communications.</li><li>Review and recommend approval for contractor shop drawings, method statements, ITPs, and material submittals.</li><li>Chair/participate in discipline workshops (value engineering, constructability, risk, interfaces).</li></ul><p><b>B) Construction Supervision&Quality Control</b></p><ul><li>Provide discipline oversight to ensure installation matches approved drawings, specs and standards.</li><li>Monitor field activities: trenching/bedding/backfill, pipe installation, thrust blocks, valve chambers, filtration stations, pump stations interfaces, controllers, sensors, wiring, and restoration.</li><li>Ensure robust QA/QC: inspection hold points, pressure testing, flushing, disinfection (where relevant), calibration, and as-built verification.</li><li>Lead resolution of irrigation-related RFIs, NCRs, punch lists, and technical queries.</li><li>Define/verify commissioning plans and acceptance criteria (pressure tests, coverage/uniformity checks, controller programming, sensor validation, leak detection).</li><li>Oversee seasonal commissioning approach where required (phased zones, seasonal adjustments).</li><li>Support planning team with discipline inputs: long-lead items (controllers, valves, pumps/filtration), testing windows, commissioning sequences.</li><li>Support commercial team with technical evaluation of variations/claims related to irrigation.</li><li>Maintain a discipline risk register (water availability/quality, corrosion/salinity, constructability constraints, authority approvals, interface risks) and drive mitigations.</li><li>Engage authorities/stakeholders as required and ensure compliance with permits and approvals relevant to irrigation works.</li></ul><p><b>E) HSE&Sustainability (Discipline Input)</b></p><ul><li>Ensure irrigation works comply with HSE requirements (excavations, pressurised testing, chemical handling where applicable).</li><li>Promote water efficiency and resilience: smart controls, hydrozoning, soil moisture sensing, pressure regulation, minimised losses, and suitable materials for salinity/temperature.</li><li>Generate irrigatio