Director – Marine & Coastal Infrastructure - CK3450611

Overview

Lead and build a Marine & Coastal Engineering team, overseeing delivery and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• project delivery
• technical leadership
• sustainability
• client relations
• business development
• team leadership

Tasks

This is a strategic leadership position that blends business development, team leadership and major project delivery. You will be instrumental in defining the market proposition, building capability, and ensuring excellence in delivery, profitability, and client satisfaction. -Manage and mentor senior project managers and associates, fostering a collaborative, high-performing and accountable culture -Oversee the delivery of major marine and coastal infrastructure programmes, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest technical and safety standards -Take full ownership of business growth, including client development, bid leadership, market positioning and strategic planning -Lead, develop and grow a new Marine & Coastal Engineering team, including recruitment, mentoring and resource planning -Access a diverse and expanding project pipeline across the UK’s coastline -Champion innovation, sustainability and climate resilience within the marine and coastal environment, ensuring compliance with regulatory and environmental frameworks -Build and maintain strong relationships with clients at senior and board level, acting as a trusted advisor on marine infrastructure and coastal resilience -Provide leadership across technical, commercial and operational aspects of projects, from concept and design through procurement, construction and commissioning

Requirements

• marine
• coastal
• leadership
• chartered
• business development
• strategic

What You Bring

You are a senior infrastructure professional, ideally with a strong track record in marine and coastal environments, ready to lead at Director level and take ownership of a growing business unit. -Extensive experience delivering marine, port, harbour and/or coastal flood-defence infrastructure projects in the UK -Strong technical credibility in marine/coastal engineering, construction delivery and asset resilience -Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary teams, with accountability for P&L, growth and delivery performance -Degree-qualified in engineering, project management or a related discipline; chartered status (CEng, ICE, RICS, APM or equivalent) preferred -Demonstrable success in business development and client relationship management, with a track record of winning work and increasing market presence -Strategic and commercially astute, able to align technical delivery with wider business objectives -Willingness to travel across the UK as project and client needs require -Excellent communicator, influencer and networker, confident engaging with clients, contractors and stakeholders at senior levels

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Benefits

A highly competitive salary, executive benefits and clear progression are on offer, together with the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact in the marine infrastructure sector. Winchester, Plymouth or Southampton | Hybrid | : £90,000 upwards + exceptional benefits Package -Benefit from regional flexibility with bases in Winchester, Plymouth or Southampton -Coastal protection and shoreline management schemes

About Kingsley

-Headquartered in Liverpool since its founding, it blends industry insight with recruitment know‑how. -It matches professionals across surveying, property management, and construction roles. -While broadening into international, interim, and executive search, its core remains aligned to the built environment. -Its consultants support project portfolios in asset and property management, commercial, residential, and housing association sectors. -Kingsley often handles niche roles in engineering, construction, surveying, and town planning for blue‑chip and start‑up clients. -The firm streamlines talent discovery across surveying, built environment, and construction.

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