Expert Technical Strategist

Job Title: Senior Technical Director

We are seeking a seasoned and accomplished Senior Technical Director to lead our engineering teams in delivering complex projects. As a key member of our leadership team, you will be responsible for overseeing the technical delivery of major projects, ensuring they meet quality and budgetary targets while exceeding client expectations.

• Lead and direct the execution of all business, technical, and executional functions of assigned projects, tasks, or subtasks.
• Develop and review project scope, reports, schedules, and budgets, and monitor progress to meet schedule and budget requirements.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and BA leads to identify and realize business opportunities to ensure client expectations are met or exceeded.
• Evaluate technical competence of senior staff proposed for projects and identify specific training and mentoring needs in consultation with Discipline directors.
• On complex projects, lead an engineering team, setting objectives and managing performance, to ensure that the team has the resources and capability to execute the project ensuring client satisfaction, effective technical management, and good communication and collaboration between BA and GEC colleagues.
• Provide inspiring leadership by taking technical line management responsibility for the development and performance management of team members to support the delivery.
• Coach and mentor senior engineering professionals to support the development of GEC's talent pool and help to realize their potential.
• Through an effective review process, oversee the technical delivery of major and complex projects meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to help deliver multi-D project including to develop initiatives that align with business goals.
• Contribute complex technical aspects of bids to support the production of high-quality winning pursuits.
• Provide required technical support and lead the technical trainings programs for team members.
• Maintain records of Continuing Professional Development and comply with audit requirements of the relevant professional institution.
• Leverage digital capability to deliver engineering solutions.

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• A BEng and/or MSc/MEng or equivalent in Civil/Structure Engineering from a reputable institution.
• Chartered professional status.
• Significant relevant experience including leadership of the development and implementation of engineering solutions.
• Demonstrated skills around independent judgement, professional commitment, and responsibility.
• Inter-personal and communication skills.
• Strong technical skills in Structural design.
• Understanding of how to provide leadership around health, safety, and welfare within own area of responsibility.
• Use of the Arcadis SHE culture to drive continuous improvement in health, safety, and welfare.
• Experience of leading working with people from varied disciplines, backgrounds, and cultures, and demonstrating inspiring leadership.
• Management and leadership skills.
• Experience of managing business relationships with internal and external clients.
• Knowledge and understanding of engineering demanded for delivery of complex projects.
• Technical and practical application of engineering skills.
• Required services in specialist disciplines.
• Extensive knowledge of statutory and commercial frameworks within own area of responsibility and an appreciation of other commercial arrangements.
• Sound knowledge of sustainable development best practice and routine delivery of sustainable technical solutions.
• Leading engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development.