Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36, 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 worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
Off the back of growing demand in our transport team, we are looking for a Technical Director/Design Manager with Highways industry experience to provide leadership across multiple complex inter-disciplinary projects.
Role accountabilities:
1. Providing sound and effective leadership by providing direction and technical advice, leading by example and championing a quality culture;
2. Ability to effectively implement project delivery best practice in the following areas: risk and change management, planning, project set-up, common data environments (including BIM and doc control);
3. Ensuring that effective financial and project management controls are in place and deployed to enable monitoring, modification and forecasting as appropriate;
4. Working to ensure maximum client satisfaction, championing client care and proactively working with the client;
5. Driving project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectation; and
6. Seeking / pursuing design opportunities, and the preparation of bids and tender submissions.
Qualifications & Experience:
First and foremost, you share our passion for improving quality of life. You are a seasoned design management professional with extensive experience in the transportation infrastructure market and come to us with:
7. Relevant engineering degree with Chartered status or equivalent professional accreditation;
8. Confident in leading multidisciplinary design teams for rail and/or road projects within a design and engineering consultancy environment;
9. Demonstrated experience delivering complex highway infrastructure projects.
10. Well-developed technical and commercial skills, with a sound knowledge of the industry and a demonstrated ability in securing opportunities; and
11. Excellent communication skills and strong stakeholder management experience and the ability to build credible, collaborative but influential relationships both internally and externally.