Technical Consultant Structural Engineering ME - Sa, Saudi Arabia

An exciting role has just become available in the Award Winning Software Company Autodesk. Autodesk's powerful 3d software helps create the world around us, from buildings to cars, handbags to videogames. Whatever your imagination conjures up, Autodesk software most likely creates it. Autodesk is seeking a Technical Consultant with extensive experience of Structural Engineering to join our AEC Consulting team in the Middle East region. You will be a key indivdual advising customers on how to make best use of their software by consulting on the level of projects conducted by the company. Acting as a business advisor, you are tasked to build strong relationships with customers and provide consulting solutions to help organisations develop their technical skills within structural engineering. Strong influential skills are required with the ability to understand business transformation and technical change within a company.

Location: Saudi Arabia or Dubai

The Technical Consultant - Structural Engineering will be responsible for the all technical consultancy providing post-sale technical and business consulting to help drive successful adoption of Autodesk AEC technologies for the Structural engineering technology within the construction industry. This key contributor with Autodesk Consulting will be a leader in their domain and will provide customers with process assessments, process change consultancy, project management, facilitate customer meetings, training, implementation, mentoring, as well as create documentation and customer deliverables. He/She will work closely with the channel by providing ongoing support, training and technical advice within the industry. You must be able to work independently as well as be part of the EMEA team. The position offers a variety of responsibilities and be the regional representative for driving Structural Engineering across multiple disciplines

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Assess customer's current business process, recommend and implement solutions to meet customer's needs. Work closely with customer to document and standardize their design processes.
• Recommends implementation and best practices for solutions to meet customer business needs.
• Develops, contributes and manages detailed customer implementation plans.
• Develops and conducts professional product training courses in person and via web casts, to accelerate customer adoption.
• Develop systems architecture, implementing cross-product solutions that best fit the customer's needs.
• Writes deliverable documents including project schedules, procedures guides, flow charts, and best practices guides, agendas, and follow up memos.
• Works with new and existing customers in order to identify unrealized customer needs and promote Company solutions to drive additional revenue.
• Mentor customers to support the new solution deployment. In cases where customer purchases product implementation and support services, this person will provide ongoing consulting throughout the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for supporting sales efforts by developing proposals, writing scopes of work, and estimating resource requirements. Plays a key role in further developing current accounts by identifying complete solutions to meet additional unrealized customer needs.

REQUIREMENTS:
• Must have knowledge Concrete and Steel Structural design, drawing and detailing experience.
• Must have strong experience with leading architectural design software (i.e. Revit Structure, Microstation, etc.).
• Good understanding of BIM workflow process between architects and engineers.
• Must be willing to become an expert in the use of Revit Structure and Building Information Modeling and analysis products.
• Experience working in the Middle East region.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team of technical personnel, marketing/sales people, project managers.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrated initiative and ability to drive decisions and get closure on recommendations and issues.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
•Excellent group facilitation skills.
• Project management experience. Demonstrated ability to lead a team to develop and deliver projects for acceptance within cost/schedule constraints.
• Able to travel up to 75% of the time and enjoy working with diverse groups of people with widely variable technical skills.
• Fluent English and Arabic is required.

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:
• Previous consulting experience.
• Structural engineering diploma desirable
• CAD management experience is desirable, especially with Structural based software.
Technical Consultant Structural Engineering ME - Sa, Saudi Arabia