Engineering Director - Water

 

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:

Our Water business unit is recruiting for an Engineering Director to play a pivotal role in leading our Design & Engineering team. As an Engineering Director, you'll provide senior leadership within the Water team, establishing and consolidating relationships with clients, taking ownership for the delivery of water technical capability, and associated quality, supporting the delivery of projects, or specialised components of projects. You will undertake (as required) Project Director Role/Strategic Pursuit Director roles to lead the delivery of major projects/pursuits and key clients, whilst also providing inspiring leadership to our people and support them to realise their potential.

The role sits within our Resilience Global Business Area where we work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Promote continual improvement in SHE performance across the business, including ‘safe by design’ initiatives and any personal targets.
• 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.
• 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.
• Evaluate technical competence of senior staff proposed for projects, supporting our people to realise their potential, identifying and providing specific training and mentoring needs.
• Support 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.
• 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. 
• 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).
• Sponsor innovation initiatives that resolve complex client challenges and promote Arcadis leadership in this area. 
• 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.
• Perform independent technical reviews for complex and major projects that are classified as high risk to the Arcadis Business.
• Encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking amongst team members, sponsoring service delivery CoPs. 
• 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.
• Sponsor (as required) Arcadis training agreements with relevant professional institutions.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Have a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Have achieved Chartered (or ideally Fellowship) professional status.

Demonstrable experience of:

• Applying independent judgement and responsibility in leading the resolution of complex technical challenges in a pressured environment
• Establishing and developing high-performing teams capable of delivering complex multi-disciplinary technical projects
• Providing inspiring leadership to mixed teams from varied disciplines, background and culture
• Leading continuous improvement in ‘safe by design’ initiatives, health, safety and welfare
• Providing effective contributions, insigh