Amir Duer

Civil engineer with 15+ years of experience designing and delivering drainage, earthwork, and water management infrastructure across transportation, urban, and international development projects. I spent a major part of my career designing channels, culverts, detention ponds, earthen berms, and site inspections. My past projects in Angola, Uganda, and Ghana gave me a particular appreciation for the realities of remote project delivery.

The FIFO schedule at Meadowbank suits my family situation in Nova Scotia, and I'm eligible for NAPEG membership. I hold an open work permit valid to September 2028 and can start with any Canadian employer without sponsorship.

Infrastructure Coordination Manager - Israel-based Employer - Nova Scotia, Canada (Remote)

(2025-01)

Built and led a new infrastructure coordination department managing multi-discipline civil projects through detailed design and tender, working remotely from Nova Scotia.

• Founded the department from zero - established workflows, documentation standards, and hired a two-person team, compressing department launch by ~30% vs. industry benchmarks
• Led BIM clash detection and resolution across complex multi-discipline projects in Civil 3D environments - estimated construction cost savings of 15–20% per project.
• Coordinated drainage, grading, and earthwork design across 5–10 concurrent projects to tender stage, consistently meeting submission milestones
• Prepared and reviewed technical specifications, design reports, and QA/QC documentation packages for client approval

Senior BIM Specialist & Element Library Manager - Infrastructure Engineering Firm - Tel Aviv, Israel (on-site / remote from Sept 2023)

(2021-01 - 2025-01)

Led BIM implementation for major public infrastructure programs including national roads and rail, embedding drainage and earthwork design into fully coordinated parametric models.

• Pioneered Israel's first comprehensive BIM element library for national road infrastructure (Netivei Yisrael standard), covering drainage components, earthwork subassemblies, and utility elements adopted as the firm-wide standard
• Automated quantity take-off workflows that generated BOQs and technical specs directly from models — reduced manual QTO time by 35–40% and eliminated a major source of human error, saving an estimated $80,000–$150,000 CAD per major project cycle
• Managed model federation, BEP implementation, cloud permissions, and CDE data flow across multi-discipline teams (roads, drainage, rail, water, sewer, electrical, telecom, landscape)
• Authored OIR, EIR, PIR, and SMP documentation packages for major public sector clients
• Model QA/QC: reviewed drainage models, cross-sections, and earthwork corridors for compliance with Netivei Yisrael and Netivei Ayalon standards before client submission

Drainage, Hydrology & Geometry Designer - Hason Yerushalmi - Tel Aviv, Israel

(2021-01 - 2022-12)

• Produced detailed drainage and hydrological designs for urban and transportation infrastructure projects, including channel profiles, culvert sizing, and stormwater routing analyses
• Prepared hydrological reports and drainage appendices to national standards & regulatory approval

Roads, Drainage & Hydrology Engineer — Lead Designer - AMY Metom Engineering - Tel Aviv, Israel

(2010-01 - 2020-12)

10 years as lead drainage and hydrology designer on major national infrastructure — highways, light rail, ports, and international projects. Full design lifecycle from feasibility through construction-phase support.

• Designed drainage systems, channels, culverts, detention ponds, berms, and stormwater networks for dozens of projects including Highway 2, Highway 4, Highway 44, and the Jerusalem Green LRT
• Africa — Angola (Kora): Drainage and hydrology design for a 40,000-unit residential city development and rural areas at 14 different sites, including earthworks, roads, channel networks, detention infrastructure, and stormwater master planning across a large greenfield site.
• Africa — Uganda (UNRA): Drainage and systems coordination for a multi-kilometre highway rehabilitation project — designed roadside channels, culvert crossings, and erosion protection in challenging tropical conditions
• Africa — Ghana (Prabon): Detailed drainage design for a residential subdivision — channel profiles, inlet/outlet structures, and stormwater routing
• Prepared and signed off on tens of hydrological reports and drainage appendices for Netivei Yisrael, Israel Railways, and Crossroads Israel — all submitted to and approved by government regulators
• Proactive error identification: Caught design conflicts before site mobilisation on multiple projects, avoiding costly mid-construction changes — estimated savings of 10–20% of construction variation costs per project
• Construction-phase supervision on the Jerusalem Green Line LRT Line(20 km) field coordination, RFI responses, and as-built verification
• Lead designer for Herzliya Train Station: drainage solution, systems coordination, and traffic management from tender through construction

B.Sc. - Civil & Environmental Engineering - Technion — Israel Institute of Technology (2010-06)