Associate Technical Director

At Arcadis, we never lose sight of what’s most important. Because look beyond our projects and programmes and you’ll see it’s about human stories. From remaking public spaces that bring people together, to making cities easier to navigate, we’re focused on making an impact where it matters most – and improving quality of life.

It’s a big challenge and that’s why we need people committed to bringing their best, who deliver on their promises. People who value different perspectives, build sustainable relationships and dare to shape the future. People who seize the experiences available to transform their world – and the world around them.

It’s a shared goal amongst 28,000 Arcadians and one we can only achieve by working together and applying our skills and expertise across design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services. It’s how we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges and how we’ll deliver exceptional results, today and tomorrow.

Job Purpose

• Operate partly outside the project environment to support professional leadership in their discipline at a management level, establishing and consolidating relationships with clients, managing the team, managing the technical delivery of projects or specialised components of projects, supporting the development of Arcadis capability in the discipline and building and maintaining a professional reputation as an individual and for Arcadis.
• May undertake a Project Management Role in line with Arcadis Project Management Academy competence requirements.
• Take a leadership role with the project team, providing direction and leading by example where appropriate.
• Manage the delivery of projects in accordance with Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets.
• Manage all aspects of the client relationship so that delivery meets or exceeds client expectations.
• Working to ensure maximum client satisfaction, championing client care and proactively working with the client.
• Promote both the regional and global culture of the business.

• Encourage SHE feedback and take a lead in solving SHE issues.
• Build strong working relationships with other teams and technical disciplines, Arcadis offices and external organisations to foster cooperation and to identify cross-sell and trade-up opportunities.
• Engage with and champions the involvement and inclusion of Arcadis Global resources ensuring that local staff understand the benefits of their utilisation as team resources.
• Support technical direction at a subject level.
• Manage discipline department staff.
• Lead the delivery of projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues.
• Select, lead and develop the project team, to ensure they have the necessary skills to deliver the project, they understand and are engaged with the project strategy, brief and client requirements, and to manage their delivery of project objectives.
• Coordinate and manage project teams and large size projects of single (own) discipline engineers or mid - large size multi disciplinary project teams, ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues.
• Coach and mentor engineering professionals to support the development of Arcadis’ talent pool.
• When appointed in the role of a Project Manager, are managing the commercial aspects of the project (contract, invoicing, debt, client management).
• When appointed in the role of a Project Manager, are ensuring that effective financial and project management controls are in place and deployed to enable monitoring, modification and forecasting as appropriate.
• When appointed in the role of a Project Manager, are driving project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectation.
• When appointed in the role of a Project Manager, are communicating with team members to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, the project strategy, brief and client requirements.
• When appointed in the role of a Project Manager, are managing the acquisition, deployment and management of resources for the project to ensure optimal resource allocation for the project.
• When appointed in the role of a Project Manager, are responsible for the election and management of suppliers, sub-consultants and contractors associated with projects.
• Provide specialised technical input to major/complex studies and design for staff’s specific area of expertise
• Develop and propose potential solutions, including solutions that fall outside the standard codes where appropriate, to meet or exceed client expectations. Guide clients through the technical decision making process and provide alternative solutions if there are changes to project parameters.
• Resolves differences of opinion between designers and checkers.
• Lead interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
• Perform independent technical review for projects of moderate complexity.
• Build strong working relationships with other teams and technical disciplines, Arcadis offices and external organisations to foster cooperation and to identify cross-sell and trade-up opportunities.
• Manage the performance of team members and sub-contractors, identifying and ensuring the resolution of any issues.
• Develop strong, partnering relationships with senior client personnel in order to identify and resolve issues, to identify business opportunities and to influence their decision making.
• Engage with the client and all key stakeholders to develop a shared understanding of project objectives and to establish protocols for working together.
• Manage technical client relationships and plays a major role in pursuits.
• Lead technical business development work.
• Provide input into specific technical aspects of individual bids to support the production of high quality winning bids.
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at a National level (e.g. conference presentations, publications and participation in technical committees).
• Maintain records of Continuing Professional Development and are able to make these available for audit by their professional institution.

• Can coach and mentor engineering professionals to support the development of Arcadis’ talent pool.
• Can identify the limits of both their personal knowledge and skills the limits of their team’s skill and knowledge.
• Exercise sound holistic independent judgement and take responsibility.
• Understand and comply with the Code of Conduct operated by professional institution.
• Plan, carry out and record CPD and encourage others.
• Engage with activities promoted by professional institution.
• Demonstrate appropriate professional standards, recognising obligations to society, the profession and the environment.
• Exercise responsibilities in an ethical manner.
• Able to communicate well with others at all levels including effective use of English orally and in writing.
• Discuss ideas and plan competently and with confidence.
• Have effective personal and social skills.
• Able to manage diversity issues.
• Able to communicate new concepts and ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues including effective use of English orally and in writing.
• Promote continuous improvement in "Safe by Design"
• Have a sound knowledge of legislation, hazards and safe systems of work.
• Understand how to manage health, safety and welfare within own area of responsibility.
• Lead continuous improvement in health, safety and welfare.
• Experienced in leading, and working with, people from varied discipline, backgrounds and cultures.
• Plan for effective project implementation.
• Manage the planning and organisation of tasks, people and resources.
• Manage teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs.
• Manage quality processes.
• Plan, direct and control tasks, people and resources.
• Lead teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs.
• Demonstrate continuous improvement through quality management.
• Have experience in managing business relationships at senior management level.
• Have strong consulting skills including project management and client relationship management at senior management level.
• Maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach to the application of technology in engineering practice.
• Have ability to use a sound evidence-based approach to problem solving and be able to contribute to continuous improvement.
• Can maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach in enabling the introduction and exploitation of new and advancing technology.
• Can engage in the creative and innovative development of engineering technology and continuous improvement systems.
• Have recognised expertise in a professional discipline with well-established industry network.
• Able to identify, review and select techniques, procedures and methods to undertake engineering tasks.
• Can contribute to the design and development of engineering solutions.
• Implement design solutions and contribute to their evaluation.
• Conduct appropriate research, relative to design and appreciate its relevance within own area of responsibility.
• Undertake the design and development of engineering solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Implement or construct design solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Have a thorough understanding of Arcadis service lines and demonstrated capability to integrate these into a coherent programme.
• Able to provide input to estimates for the engineering budget and schedule and oversee technical resources to meet requirements on large, complex projects.
• Use sound knowledge of statutory and commercial frameworks within own area of responsibility and have an appreciation of other commercial arrangements.
• Demonstrate sound judgement on statutory, contractual and commercial issues in relation to own area of responsibility.
• In a project management role, have sound commercial background, including familiarity with contractual conditions and procedures, and ability to take commercial responsibility for a project.
• Have a sound knowledge of sustainable development best practice.
• Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development.
• Support continuous improvement in sustainable development.

• Have a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Have achieved Chartered or Incorporated Engineer professional status, or equivalent.
• Have relevant experience including leadership of the development and implementation of engineering solutions.
• Working in a project management role, have project management experience.

Why Arcadis?

At Arcadis, you’ll have the opportunity to build the career that’s right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it’s why we’ll take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions. Wherever you join us, you can look forward to a competitive reward package that includes an attractive starting salary, opportunities for career development and being part of a sociable community. We have a performance-related bonus scheme and an employee recognition scheme. Other benefits include membership fees to join your relevant professional body, employer contribution pension scheme, flexible working and a flexible holiday scheme. #LI-CV1

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.