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About the Role

As a Technical Director within the Water team, you will provide dynamic professional technical leadership to engineering teams, working on technically challenging projects and AMP8 programmes across the UK. This role offers a pathway towards senior management positions and requires an extensive practical understanding of technical matters, commercial and contract management, and experience in delivering complex projects.

Responsibilities

Technically lead and coordinate complex multi-disciplined wastewater or water treatment / infrastructure projects and programmes of work throughout the design life cycle.
Collaborate with key clients, partner organisations and supply chain maintaining Arcadis’ reputation for high quality, innovative design and a positive client experience.
Build and sustain adequate resource for the delivery of the project or programme and support identify strategic recruitment needs.
Provide Line Management, career direction and pastoral care to team members, taking a proactive role in developing them to their full potential, leading by example to achieve sector/divisional goals and championing a high quality, innovative and entrepreneurial culture.
Promote a culture that is proactive on Safety, Health, Quality and Sustainability matters.
Promote a culture of innovation, helping to develop engineering technology and continuous improvement systems.
Work with the Framework Design Manager and Project Manager team to manage the programme, ensure commercial rigour, deliver profitable outputs and resolve project issues efficiently.
Performing other duties as required from time to time by your Client Manager or Arcadis Senior Leadership Team.
Work with other Arcadis teams to foster collaboration, ensuring the collective knowledge and experience is shared across all.

Requirements

Degree in Civil Engineering or other directly related degree.
Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as ICE or CIWEM.
Extensive water industry experience of working on complex design and delivery frameworks and / or design and build projects.
Takes accountability and leads by example in particular with championing and taking a lead in solving SHEQ issues.
Has excellent people management skills, ensuring that the best talent is used to meet the resource demands for the projected workload.
Experience of contract, commercial, project & programme management.
Is digitally curious and/or proficient.
An excellent communicator at all levels who works effectively with people from other organisations, backgrounds, and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience to best effect.
Demonstrable experience of building and sustaining successful teams.
Exhibit behaviours consistent with the Arcadis vision and values.

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director
Senior Management

Education Level

Degree in Civil Engineering or other directly related degree
Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status
Membership of a professional institution such as ICE or CIWEM

About the Company

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Equal Opportunity

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.