Discipline 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.

As a Discipline Director for Geotechnics your role will focus leadership of Discipline team of professional staff located across multiple GECs ensuring growth of capabilities and capacity to meet business demands, and delivery of high-quality project outcomes. You will be responsible to monitor, track the team's performance and ensure that all the deliverables by each of the team members are achieved. Ensure the successful completion of the projects within the established budget, schedule, and quality.

Role accountabilities:

• Provide professional leadership in their discipline at a senior management level, establishing and consolidating relationships with senior staff in country Business Areas (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 discipline to meet project demands, working with Talent Acquisition and Learning Development to ensure business needs can be met in advance.  
• Drive a culture of project delivery excellence within the discipline, 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 BAs and champion the involvement and inclusion of GEC capability in their delivery model using Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to standardize the delivery approach.  
• Drive the implementation of the GEC strategy within the discipline, including managing changes associated with the operating model.
• Communicate change and manage transformation within the team, aligned to the strategic direction of the company and GECs.  
• Develop and implement workforce plans regarding building capability and capacity of the teams over the medium to long term in consultation with GEC BA Business Partners, Workforce Planners, Service Delivery Managers and GEC Business Area Director.  
• Manage day to day workload within the teams to ensure that direct and indirect hour targets are achieved, working in close collaboration with the Workforce Planner.  
• Work with Service Delivery Managers to define and implement standardization and automation initiatives within the Discipline teams.  
• 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 and attrition by drawing insights from tools such as YourVoice, identifying engagement drivers and developing and implementing action plans to ensure a well engaged team.  
• Accountable for delivery of key operational metrics within discipline such as hourly and cost billability, management of software usage, overtime and other relevant metrics associated with Discipline teams.  
• 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.  
• Create and drive the development of Global Talent teams (flexible pool staff), aligned with guiding principles and targets agreed with GEC Director (Mobility).

Qualifications & Experience:

• Have a MTech/MEng or equivalent in Geotechnical Engineering.
• Minimum of 15 years of working experience and minimum of 8 years leading teams of a significant size delivering various design projects. 
• Having work experience on Design & Build Projects is added advantage.  
• Achieved international chartered status. 
• Previous relevant experience including leadership of the development and implementation of engineering solutions.  

Why Arcadis?

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'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, 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.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.