Associate Technical Director - Mechanical Engineering

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:

We are looking for an Associate Technical Director - Mechanical Engineering to join our multidisciplinary Places Design Practice.

You'll be responsible for leading the electrical design on larger projects, managing project teams, providing support to more junior engineers and have the capability to provide electrical building services expertise.

Role accountabilities:

As an Associate Technical Director, you will take a leadership role within the project team, providing direction and leading by example. You will manage the delivery of projects in accordance with Management Systems to ensure time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets are met. You'll also manage the performance of team members and sub-contractors, identifying and ensuring the resolution of any issues.

You will develop and propose potential solutions, providing specialised technical input to major/complex studies and design. You'll lead interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables and perform independent technical reviews for projects of moderate complexity.

By working proactively with clients, you will champion client care and ensure maximum client satisfaction. You'll have the responsibility of managing technical client relationships and you will play a major role in pursuits.

As part of your Associate Technical Director role, we encourage you to keep up to date with developments in the industry, with technical & legislative developments and to seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at a national level (e.g. conference presentations, publications and participating in technical committees)

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You come to us with:

• A BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng in Mechanical Engineering or similar
• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Significant experience in a similar consultancy environment
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to coach and mentor engineering professionals to support the development of Arcadis' talent pool.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with senior client personnel
• Good problem solving skills
• Strong influencing skills

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.

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