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About the Role

Seeking an experienced Associate Technical Director to join our Rail South, West & Wales Business Unit, supporting the delivery of major rail structures projects. You will provide technical leadership across a diverse portfolio including depots, maintenance facilities, bridge replacements, and station upgrades/new-builds. This is an excellent opportunity for a collaborative, client-focused leader who enjoys solving complex challenges, developing high-performing teams, and shaping the growth of our rail business.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary rail projects, guiding design development, decision-making, and technical assurance to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and project teams, offering trusted advice throughout the project lifecycle and supporting successful delivery.
Support project and design managers with technical governance, resource planning, safety-critical reviews, and the effective delivery of complex design work.
Mentor and develop engineers within the team, chair technical reviews, and promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement, and health and safety.
Contribute to work winning and business growth, including strengthening client relationships, expanding market presence, and helping shape regional growth strategies.

Requirements

BEng or MEng in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline.
Chartered Engineer status through a recognised professional institution.
Significant experience leading the technical delivery of rail structures or multidisciplinary rail infrastructure projects.
Strong knowledge of design assurance, health and safety, safety-critical processes, and relevant rail industry standards.
Ability to undertake the role of Contractor’s Engineering Manager to NR/L2/INI/02009 if required.
Proven ability to build client relationships, lead technical teams, support business development, and mentor others in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

Skills

Technical leadership
Client relationship management
Team leadership
Mentoring
Business development
Design assurance
Health and safety
Safety-critical processes
Rail industry standards

Location

Rail South, West & Wales

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced

Education Level

BEng or MEng in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline
Chartered Engineer status

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 believe everyone's contribution matters.
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.

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.