Technical Director - Structural Engineering London, England

Arcadis

Full Time London, England 63452 - 87530 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

Do you have a track record in technical and structural leadership and the delivery of complex design and engineering services in the water and energy sectors? Are you passionate about successful project delivery? Is sustainability a key driver for you? Would you like to play a key role to shape a UK wide design focussed community, motivated by working with Contractors and water and energy clients to deliver innovative and efficient structural designs and solutions whilst solving complex challenges? Keep reading.

We are delivering some very significant schemes for water and energy companies across all investment areas and collaborating with a number of national and international contractors in the D&B arena. Working closely with the Business Director, Engineering Director and other discipline leads you will be a recognised technical leader, comfortable in leading a technical discipline and complex projects, making significant contributions to shaping how we deliver technical and design services.

You will …

be a qualified, experienced Civil & Structural Engineer, familiar with sector best practise
provide professional leadership at a senior management level, to deliver all aspects of service for your technical discipline
lead and grow your UK and international technical discipline team (currently 28 staff)
positively contribute expertise to large multi-disciplinary projects
establish and consolidate relationships with clients and own (as appropriate) specific aspects of project and service delivery
have credible experience working for contractor clients delivering buildable designs
be a seasoned professional who leads by example and is calm under pressure
manage and mentor those within your team and those in the wider business seeking your discipline expertise

Role accountabilities:

Discipline

Overall discipline lead and expert for structures within the Resilience Global Business Area (GBA) for Arcadis UK and Ireland
Development of links within own wider GBA and liaison with others
Manage and collaborate with your Operations and Structural Design Leads
Prioritise and p romote continual improvement in SHE performance
Provide professional leadership for your structural discipline as a senior manager
Own all aspects of technical capability, project support and specialist component design
Plan future strategies and the evolution of technical service delivery
Report to Business Director (line management) and Director of Engineering (functional leadership)
Be the final technical review and approval sign off authority for structural design

Team

Shape your discipline team capability, working with your Operations Manager, to ensure optimal resource recruitment, deployment and management for projects and frameworks
Identify high and low performance managing development and growth to address both
Encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking
Keep the team relevent with current industry technical standards and legislation
Actively participate in/sponsor the professional development of reports and colleagues
Champion Diversity and Inclusion

Other Technical/Work Winning

Perform technical reviews for complex/major project within own and for other GBAs
Present Technical guidance and/or webinars where required to the GBA
Input to specific technical aspects of individual bids to support the production of high quality winning pursuits

Project Management

When managing structural projects or structural inputs to larger projects/ frameworks be responsible for the commercial aspects (contract, invoicing, debt, client management) and balance technical excellence and commercial outcomes
Effective review and oversight of structural delivery to time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations

Qualifications:

Chartered Member of both the Institutions of Civil and Structural Engineers
BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in civil or structural engineering (or equivalent)

Required skills & Experience:

Proven success of technical/design leadership of a medium sized team
Demonstrable experience of delivering structural engineering into complex multi-discipinary projects
Fundemental capability strength and passion for structural engineering
Design and design management of a broad selection of structures which should include those in:
- Heavy civil engineering
- Soil Structure interaction and foundations
- Below ground applications
- Industrial buildings
And preferably in:
- Water Engineering
- Energy
- Precast and DfMA
- General multimaterial buuildings

Leading continuous improvement in ‘Safety by Design’ and CDM compliance
Working with industry and D&C contractor clients
A sound knowledge of engineering contracts and ability to protect Arcadis liability and interest
Awareness of key legislation, hazards and safe systems of work
Strong stakeholder management skills, e.g. awareness of other discipline inputs and the flexibility that will drive into structural solutions
Ability to think strategically within the wider business
Existing relationships throughout the industry, peers (and preferably academia) and the ability to establish supporting networks
People skills and ability to manage and develop and be sympathetic to a multi-national multi-cultural team
Confidence to promote Arcadis in front of the Client and in bidding efforts
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Ability to drive continuous improvement and, where necessary, change
Preferred track record of successful whole project management

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2035.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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