Director of Engineering – Water

Description

• Promote continual improvement in SHE performance across the business, including ‘safe by design’ initiatives and any personal targets.
• Promote and market all facets of the company’s services during client interfaces, providing direction and a leading contribution to complex technical aspects of bids, supporting the production of high quality winning pursuits.
• Providing effective contributions, insight and active leadership in support of successful pursuits
• Establishing and developing high-performing teams capable of delivering complex multi-disciplinary technical projects
• Leading continuous improvement in ‘safe by design’ initiatives, health, safety and welfare
• Perform independent technical reviews for complex and major projects that are classified as high risk to the Arcadis Business.
• Lead the recruitment and development of water engineering teams with Business Directors, setting objectives and managing performance, to ensure that the team has the resources and capability to achieve the business plan.
• Provide technical leadership at a subject level, promoting Arcadis technical excellence across industry and peer groups through strong regional networks. Promotes Arcadis technical excellence across industry and peer groups.
• Keep up to date with developments in the water sector (including technical and legislative), seeking opportunities to develop a strong professional profile for Arcadis at a national level (e.g. conference presentations, thought leadership articles and participation in technical committees).
• Providing inspiring leadership to mixed teams from varied disciplines, background and culture
• A strong focus on designing and deploying effective project delivery processes
• Applying independent judgement and responsibility in leading the resolution of complex technical challenges in a pressured environment
• Evaluate technical competence of senior staff proposed for projects, supporting our people to realise their potential, identifying and providing specific training and mentoring needs.
• Encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking amongst team members, sponsoring service delivery CoPs.
• Ensure that complex technical projects are effectively led with good communication and collaboration between Arcadis and its partner organisations, proactively leading the resolution of technical issues.
• Sponsor innovation initiatives that resolve complex client challenges and promote Arcadis leadership in this area.
• Building credible relationships with senior leaders (internally and externally)
• In conjunction with Business Directors, establish and agree key performance targets and financial budgets for the engineering teams in order to optimise business performance in line with set objectives.
• Build relationships with clients and partners to identify and realise business opportunities across all Service Lines and to ensure that client expectations and Arcadis’ commercial objectives are met or exceeded.

Requirements

• A strong understanding of the principles of commercial management
• Have achieved Chartered (or ideally Fellowship) professional status.
• An extensive knowledge of legislation, hazards and safe systems of work
• A sound knowledge of the principles of sustainable design
• Have a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance