Environmental Engineer (Remote)

Job description / Role

Overview

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 51 st 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 Environmental Engineer to join our team, based in Kuwait. This position is responsible for working on the Environmental Engineering elements on a major government housing program.

We envisage success in this role to include;
– Conducting audits for environmental and sustainability compliance on-site, taking into consideration understanding of the implementation of green certification systems, sustainable site operations, and client-specific environmental standards and policies.
– Conducting material approvals for sustainability, on-site audits and guiding the supervision teams against sustainability and environmental compliance requirements.
– Preparing environmental report on sites of non-compliance and support site teams on complying with remediation actions, if any.
– Leading the site auditing, reporting, and provision of reports to the Client.
– Supporting the wider KEO team in reviewing submissions by others and ensure that the Client’s sustainability requirements and environmental aspects on site follow the Kingdom’s regulations.
– Collaborating with KEO teams and the Client’s specialist team.
– Writing reports associated with progress and site audit compliance associated both with environmental and sustainability/materials compliance aspects.

– To be successful in this dynamic opportunity, we envision that your career journey to date will include 12 years of relevant experience partnered with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering or equivalent.
– You will have previously worked on large scale projects within a consultancy scope in the GCC.
– Native Arabic speakers will be viewed favourably as the client environment has some departments where Arabic language skills will be needed.

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.

About the Company

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 57 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 ranked by ENR in the Top 225 International Design Firms; in the Top 20 International PM/CM Firms; and by World Architecture as 50th largest global architecture firm and #1 Firm in the Middle East Region in their 2021 WAS 100 Survey.

We invite you to join us.