Description : Technical Director - Water Management Engineering Lead . Company : Arcadis . Location : Birmingham - 4 hours ago
Job description:
Job Type: Full-time, Contract
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:
At Arcadis we work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Our Water Management Engineering team is looking for a Technical Director to join them. Reporting to the Water Management Technical Services Leader, you will lead a team of 30+ people across multiple offices who provide services across the whole spectrum of dams and reservoirs, river engineering, waterways, nature-based solutions and asset management and is looking to expand its coastal engineering offering.
Because we’re such a diverse business, we can offer you variety as standard. The work within the Team can span across all stages of assets lifecycle, from feasibility and optioneering through concept and detailed design, planning and environmental consents, to site supervision and asset refurbishment, as well as providing tailored client services to support the development of flood alleviation and infrastructure schemes. You’ll get to work on a range of different projects for regulators, local government bodies, infrastructure providers, water companies, developers and investors and you would be expected to interface and work in collaboration with the other Design and Engineering Team Leads within Water and Energy.
Role accountabilities:
The role will require you to visit site locations throughout the UK from time to time and will see you leading liaison with our clients and consultation with regulators. Collaborating, learning, thinking proactively and creatively forms the ethos of the team and a fundamental part of your role. In addition, your day-to-day activities will include:
Developing the line management structure of team, which supports staff’s welfare and development, and the resourcing and delivery of projects.
Taking on management duties for circ. 3-5 members of staff.
Manage and expand our dams and reservoirs capability.
Supporting the development and implementation of the team’s business strategy and marketing plan.
Developing client relationships and new opportunities, enhancing our reputation and market position.
Leading bid work including preparing, contributing to and reviewing commercial and technical aspects of bids/tenders.
Setting and maintaining the technical direction and oversight on projects within the team including writing, checking and review of deliverables, with financial/commercial responsibility.
Managing projects, taking responsibility for own personal time and resource management, and coordinating team members, managing subcontractors, quality assurance and client feedback and ensuring effective communication of any changes/modifications.
Working in collaboration with specialists from other engineering and environmental disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall project.
Responsible for all commercial aspects (contract, invoicing, debt management, client management etc) relating to projects for which you have responsibility to ensure a successful outcome.
Maintaining and enhance our external reputation by speaking at external events, preparing articles for publication and working with relevant professional bodies.
Taking a proactive role in developing team members to their full potential, including mentoring colleagues to achieve appropriate professional qualifications (e.g. CEng ).
Being familiar and compliant with relevant H&S regulations and promoting a culture of awareness within the team
Qualifications & Experience:
Supervising Panel Engineer under the Reservoir Act 1975 or working towards it
Experience of working on major infrastructure projects and dams and reservoirs.
Ability to lead design, inspection and asset management projects relating to river engineering, coastal and waterways.
Solid understanding of the National Planning Policy Framework (England) Technical Advice Note 15: Development and Flood Risk (Wales), and Reservoirs Act 1975.
Experience of preparing client proposals, leading on presentations to prospective clients, bidding/tendering for internal and external opportunities and strong commercial awareness
Experienced team leader / line manager.
Degree in an appropriate analytical subject (Civil Engineering, Geography, Environmental Science, Water Resources, Engineering Hydrology)
Chartered status with CIWEM or ICE
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.
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.
#WaterManagement #LI-TW1
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:
At Arcadis we work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Our Water Management Engineering team is looking for a Technical Director to join them. Reporting to the Water Management Technical Services Leader, you will lead a team of 30+ people across multiple offices who provide services across the whole spectrum of dams and reservoirs, river engineering, waterways, nature-based solutions and asset management and is looking to expand its coastal engineering offering.
Because we’re such a diverse business, we can offer you variety as standard. The work within the Team can span across all stages of assets lifecycle, from feasibility and optioneering through concept and detailed design, planning and environmental consents, to site supervision and asset refurbishment, as well as providing tailored client services to support the development of flood alleviation and infrastructure schemes. You’ll get to work on a range of different projects for regulators, local government bodies, infrastructure providers, water companies, developers and investors and you would be expected to interface and work in collaboration with the other Design and Engineering Team Leads within Water and Energy.
Role accountabilities:
The role will require you to visit site locations throughout the UK from time to time and will see you leading liaison with our clients and consultation with regulators. Collaborating, learning, thinking proactively and creatively forms the ethos of the team and a fundamental part of your role. In addition, your day-to-day activities will include:
Developing the line management structure of team, which supports staff’s welfare and development, and the resourcing and delivery of projects.
Taking on management duties for circ. 3-5 members of staff.
Manage and expand our dams and reservoirs capability.
Supporting the development and implementation of the team’s business strategy and marketing plan.
Developing client relationships and new opportunities, enhancing our reputation and market position.
Leading bid work including preparing, contributing to and reviewing commercial and technical aspects of bids/tenders.
Setting and maintaining the technical direction and oversight on projects within the team including writing, checking and review of deliverables, with financial/commercial responsibility.
Managing projects, taking responsibility for own personal time and resource management, and coordinating team members, managing subcontractors, quality assurance and client feedback and ensuring effective communication of any changes/modifications.
Working in collaboration with specialists from other engineering and environmental disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall project.
Responsible for all commercial aspects (contract, invoicing, debt management, client management etc) relating to projects for which you have responsibility to ensure a successful outcome.
Maintaining and enhance our external reputation by speaking at external events, preparing articles for publication and working with relevant professional bodies.
Taking a proactive role in developing team members to their full potential, including mentoring colleagues to achieve appropriate professional qualifications (e.g. CEng ).
Being familiar and compliant with relevant H&S regulations and promoting a culture of awareness within the team
Qualifications & Experience:
Supervising Panel Engineer under the Reservoir Act 1975 or working towards it
Experience of working on major infrastructure projects and dams and reservoirs.
Ability to lead design, inspection and asset management projects relating to river engineering, coastal and waterways.
Solid understanding of the National Planning Policy Framework (England) Technical Advice Note 15: Development and Flood Risk (Wales), and Reservoirs Act 1975.
Experience of preparing client proposals, leading on presentations to prospective clients, bidding/tendering for internal and external opportunities and strong commercial awareness
Experienced team leader / line manager.
Degree in an appropriate analytical subject (Civil Engineering, Geography, Environmental Science, Water Resources, Engineering Hydrology)
Chartered status with CIWEM or ICE
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.
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.
#WaterManagement #LI-TW1
