AddressAs an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 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 continue to solve the world’s 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:
- Providing sound and effective leadership by providing direction and technical advice, leading by example and championing a quality culture;
- 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);
- Ensuring that effective financial and project management controls are in place and deployed to enable monitoring, modification and forecasting as appropriate;
- Working to ensure maximum client satisfaction, championing client care and proactively working with the client;
- Driving project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectation; and
- 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:
- Relevant engineering degree with Chartered status or equivalent professional accreditation;
- Confident in leading multidisciplinary design teams for rail and/or road projects within a design and engineering consultancy environment;
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex highway infrastructure projects.
- Well-developed technical and commercial skills, with a sound knowledge of the industry and a demonstrated ability in securing opportunities; and
- Excellent communication skills and strong stakeholder management experience and the ability to build credible, collaborative but influential relationships both internally and externally.
Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.
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 do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, 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.
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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.
As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
