Technical Director

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

This role is part of Arcadis’ Global Excellence Centre (GEC) and will join our 3,000+ talented individuals working in India, Romania, and Philippines, in partnership with Arcadis’ offices globally. The GEC brings key capabilities and capacity to support our clients seamlessly around the world. For those in GEC there are options to be dedicated to one country; developing deep knowledge and strong relationships, as well as opportunities to be part of teams working truly globally as a centre of excellence, offering diversity and variety. Arcadians are by nature, globally minded and culturally aware, and Arcadis strongly believes in flexibility which enables change over time as your career progresses. The GEC model is well embedded in Arcadis, and the strong relationships that exist between our global offices are truly unique.

The role sits within our global business area Resilience. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Overall leadership of Business Area (BA) team of professional staff, ensuring growth of capabilities and capacity to meet business demands, delivery of high-quality project outcomes and nurturing and developing talent within their teams

Key Shared Accountabilities

• Responsible for delivering team metrics in conjunction with Discipline Director
• Key interface with Discipline Director and Service Delivery Manager for performance of team, development of capabilities and progress on standardization and automation

Descision Rights

• Drives team efficiency, enhancing capability development & technical skillset in line with professional standards.
• Quality of project deliverables.
• Influences recruitment decisions, capability development

Important Metrices and Profile Requirement

The candidate should have a bachelor or master's degree and experience leading and growing a significant business function within a multinational engineering or professional services firm. For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas:

• Leading transformation: Ability to bring people on a journey to the unknown, creating a sense of stability and security in uncertain times, avoiding change fatigue.
• Managing change: Managing change at a management level, growing a start-up, or leading change into other market/services or products, operating with new business models, turning around underperforming businesses, programs or teams and driving standardization and automation.
• Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies.
• Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model we seek Arcadians with a strong fit to our leadership success profile, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability. Successful Arcadians will possess strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion.

Be curious:

• Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation.
• Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset.
• Are digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative.
• Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging and purposeful.
• Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation-led and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation. Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict

Drive success:

• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery.
• Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others.
• Internalize organizational goals, making them one’s own personal stretch goals.
• Are outcomes focused and tackle challenges head-on.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to sustainable solutions.
• Actively shape the future of the organization.

Ignite passion:

• Personally, role model own a commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core.
• Apply an adaptive style to engagement that is culturally sensitive and appeals to the personal needs of others
• Bring clarity and manage anxiety in others, through clear communication and inspiring storytelling.
• Integrate their work, helping others make the connection between their work and the bigger picture.
• Maintain personal resilience and rebound from setbacks and help others to do the same.
• Build trust through authenticity, demonstrating integrity and courage regarding own convictions.

Role accountabilities:

• Provide professional leadership in their BA team at a management level, establishing and consolidating relationships with senior staff in BA offices, taking ownership for the delivery of the GEC’s technical capability, supporting the delivery of tasks or specialized components of projects.
• Plan and drive the development of Arcadis’ capability and capacity in the BA team, aligned with Discipline wide plans to meet project demands. Work with Talent Acquisition and Learning Development to ensure BA team needs are understood and plans to meet them are in place.
• Drive a culture of project delivery excellence within the BA team, ensuring that adequate talent is available and assigned to lead on project delivery from a technical and task management perspective.
• Ensure the delivery of projects/tasks within the team is in accordance with Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets.
• Engage with the senior leadership in the BA they collaborate with and champion the involvement and inclusion of GEC capability in their delivery model using SOPs to standardize the delivery approach.
• Drive the implementation of the GEC and Discipline strategy within the BA team, including managing changes associated with the operating model.
• Communicate change and manage transformation within the team, aligned to the strategic direction of the company, GECs and Discipline.
• Develop and implement workforce plans regarding building capability and capacity of the teams over the medium to long term in consultation with the Discipline Director, BA stakeholders, Workforce Planners and Service Delivery Managers.
• Manage day to day workload within the teams to ensure that direct and indirect hour targets are achieved, working in close collaboration with the Discipline Director and Workforce Planner.
• Work with Discipline Director and Service Delivery Managers to define and implement standardization and automation initiatives within the team.
• Ensure a strong focus on career development, driving a culture of best practice around GPS and empowerment of staff to own the development of their careers.
• Foster a strong culture of health and safety awareness and practices within the teams, setting a leadership example and holding senior staff to account.
• Manage staff engagement levels by drawing insights from tools such as Your Voice, identifying engagement drivers and developing and implementing action plans to ensure a well engaged team.
• Manage team shape and size within the discipline to ensure that adequate levels of seniority for leadership, task management and technical roles are in place to support current and future delivery requirements.
• Collaborate with other BA Managers and GBA Manager within Disciplines to ensure that capabilities are maximized across teams and projects.

Drive the development of training and accreditation plans which ensure that skills are continuously improving and meet the workload requirements from the BAs

Qualifications & Experience:

• BE/ B.Tech (Electrical) from reputed and recognised University
• Min Experience required- 15 Years

Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark; on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

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