Floradecora Landscape & Gardening Works & Maintenance L.L.C. — a leading UAE landscaping company with over 20 years of experience specialising in touristic theme gardens, butterfly gardens, vertical gardens, and public parks — is seeking an experienced Drainage Engineer / Irrigation Engineer for its Al Ain operations. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining efficient irrigation and drainage systems for gardens, parks, and landscaped areas — including stormwater management, flood risk assessment, drainage design, and CAD-based irrigation system planning — across Floradecora’s landmark municipal and public landscape projects in the UAE.
About Floradecora — UAE’s Landscape & Gardening Leader
Experience: 20+ years delivering world-class landscape projects — touristic theme gardens, butterfly gardens, vertical gardens, and public parks across the UAE
Technical Scope: Irrigation design, drainage systems, stormwater management, flood risk assessment, water resource optimization, and CAD-based layout preparation
Project Types: Municipal landscaping, public parks, theme gardens, and urban green infrastructure — collaborating with municipalities, developers, and public entities
Technologies: Drip irrigation, sprinkler systems, automated controls, pumps, valves, pipelines, and modern irrigation control systems
Location: Full-time on-site role based in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE
UAE Landscape Engineering Market — Why This Role
Strategic Context: The UAE’s ongoing investment in public parks, urban greening, and sustainable landscape infrastructure is creating sustained demand for drainage and irrigation engineers with GCC landscape project experience
Market Leadership: Floradecora is recognized as a global leader in vertical gardens, theme gardens, and municipal landscaping — working with municipalities and public entities across the UAE
Sustainability Focus: Water resource management, efficient irrigation, and stormwater drainage expertise are among the most strategically valued engineering skills in the UAE’s sustainable landscape sector
Career Growth: Build internationally recognised drainage and irrigation engineering credentials across landmark UAE public landscape projects — with a company that has delivered 20+ years of world-class results
Position Overview
This Drainage Engineer / Irrigation Engineer role at Floradecora in Al Ain covers the design, implementation, and maintenance of efficient irrigation and drainage systems for gardens, parks, and landscaped areas. Day-to-day responsibilities include assessing site conditions, preparing irrigation and drainage layouts and calculations using CAD tools, selecting suitable equipment and technologies, coordinating with design, nursery, and construction teams, monitoring system performance, troubleshooting issues, optimizing water usage, ensuring compliance with local regulations and sustainability standards, preparing technical reports, supporting project planning and costing, and guiding on-site installation and maintenance staff.
Why This Role Matters: As Drainage Engineer at Floradecora in Al Ain, you apply irrigation design, drainage engineering, and stormwater management expertise to some of the most visually stunning and environmentally significant landscape projects in the UAE — theme gardens, public parks, butterfly gardens, and municipal green infrastructure that genuinely enhance the quality of life for communities across Abu Dhabi Emirate, apply a rare and highly valued combination of drainage design, water resource management, flood risk assessment, and irrigation system engineering skills in a landscape engineering environment where your technical work is visibly embedded in the finished green spaces that thousands of UAE residents enjoy daily, contribute to Floradecora’s mission as a global leader in sustainable landscape engineering — working on projects where water efficiency, smart irrigation technology, and drainage system reliability are not just engineering requirements but genuine sustainability contributions to the UAE’s water-scarce environment, work in Al Ain’s distinctive outdoor landscape environment — coordinating with multidisciplinary design, nursery, and construction teams in a dynamic project setting where your practical engineering judgment, CAD skills, and site coordination capability are valued in equal measure, and build a UAE landscape engineering career with a company whose 20+ years of project delivery across municipal parks, theme gardens, and vertical gardens represents one of the most distinctive and professionally rewarding portfolios in the GCC landscaping sector.
Key Responsibilities
Irrigation System Design & Implementation
- Design, implement, and maintain efficient irrigation systems for gardens, parks, and landscaped areas in Al Ain and across Floradecora project sites
- Assess site conditions, prepare irrigation layouts and hydraulic calculations, and select suitable equipment, technologies, and control systems
- Apply knowledge of drip irrigation, sprinkler systems, automated irrigation controls, pumps, valves, and pipeline systems across landscape project types
- Monitor irrigation system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize water usage to meet sustainability standards and regulatory requirements
Drainage Design & Stormwater Management
- Design drainage systems for landscaped and urban environments — including surface drainage, sub-surface drainage, and outlet connections
- Conduct flood risk assessment and stormwater management analysis to support safe and sustainable landscape project delivery
- Ensure drainage designs comply with local UAE regulations, Abu Dhabi Municipality requirements, and applicable sustainability standards
- Integrate drainage solutions seamlessly with hard and soft landscaping works — coordinating with construction and design teams throughout
Water Resource Management & Sustainability
- Demonstrate experience in water resource management — planning and optimizing irrigation water use across multiple concurrent landscape projects
- Implement water-efficient irrigation technologies and system configurations to maximize sustainability performance across Floradecora’s project portfolio
- Prepare technical reports supporting project planning, water efficiency compliance, and regulatory submission requirements
- Support project costing and planning activities by providing accurate irrigation and drainage system quantity and specification inputs
Site Coordination, Team Support & CAD Documentation
- Coordinate with design, nursery, and construction teams to ensure irrigation and drainage system integration with hard and soft landscaping works
- Provide technical guidance and on-site direction to installation and maintenance staff on irrigation and drainage system construction and commissioning
- Use irrigation design software and CAD tools to read, prepare, and issue technical drawings and irrigation layout documentation
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously in outdoor site conditions — demonstrating strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills throughout
Qualifications & Requirements
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a closely related field (REQUIRED)
Technical Skills
- Strong background in drainage systems and drainage design for landscaped and urban environments
- Knowledge of flood risk assessment and stormwater management for safe and sustainable landscape project delivery
- Demonstrated experience in water resource management — planning and optimizing irrigation water use
- Proficiency in irrigation design software and CAD tools — ability to read and prepare technical irrigation and drainage drawings
- Understanding of pumps, valves, pipelines, control systems, and modern irrigation technologies — drip, sprinkler, and automated controls
Experience & Attributes
- Ability to work on-site in outdoor conditions, coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills — fluency in English is required; Arabic language skills are a strong advantage
- Previous experience in landscaping, municipal projects, or public parks in the GCC region is preferred
- Genuine commitment to water efficiency, sustainability standards, and compliance with local UAE landscaping regulations
About Floradecora Landscape & Gardening — UAE’s Green Space Leader
Floradecora Landscape & Gardening Works & Maintenance L.L.C. is a leading UAE landscaping company with over 20 years of experience delivering world-class landscape projects — including touristic theme gardens, butterfly gardens, vertical gardens, and public parks. Recognised as a global leader in vertical gardens, theme gardens, and municipal landscaping, Floradecora collaborates with municipalities, developers, and public entities across the UAE to deliver high-quality, cost-efficient, and sustainable landscape solutions. Headquartered in Al Ain and managing the full project lifecycle from design and consultancy through nurseries, hard and soft landscaping, irrigation, and long-term operation and maintenance — Floradecora offers a genuinely distinctive and professionally rewarding career environment for landscape engineering professionals.
Career Excellence: Apply your drainage, irrigation, and stormwater engineering expertise at Floradecora Al Ain — where 20+ years of UAE landscape leadership, sustainable water management, and world-class public park delivery create a genuinely rewarding landscape engineering career.
Who Should Apply?
- Drainage & Irrigation Engineers: With CAD-based irrigation design experience and drainage system design expertise for landscaped or urban environments in the GCC
- Stormwater & Flood Risk Engineers: With flood risk assessment and stormwater management experience applicable to public parks and landscape infrastructure projects
- Water Resource Management Engineers: With practical experience planning and optimizing irrigation water use for sustainable landscape and green infrastructure projects
- GCC Landscape & Municipal Project Engineers: With previous experience in landscaping, public parks, or municipal green infrastructure projects across the UAE or GCC
- Civil / Agricultural / Environmental Engineers: With irrigation design software proficiency, CAD skills, and willingness to work on-site managing multiple Al Ain landscape projects
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