Associate Technical Director (Geotechnical) – Team Lead, UK

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:

As a Team Lead, you will utilize your experience and technical knowledge of design and engineering as well as familiarity with UK project development processes to deliver project success for Arcadis and our clients. You will be responsible to monitor, track the team’s performance and ensure that all the deliverables by each of the team members are achieved. Ensure the successful completion of the projects within the established budget, schedule, and quality.

Role accountabilities:
• Point of contact of the UK Business Area. Responsible for the overall team’s utilization and billability. Checking/Reviewing teams’ performance and ensuring quality delivery. Responsible for team’s training and upskilling. Additionally, oversee technical coordination with all stakeholders to maintain seamless project execution.
• Demonstrated experience as a team lead for medium-large sized multi-disciplinary projects. Led a team of 30 plus. Provides input on project programs, resource management, and budgets, ensuring delivery according to schedule. Monitors and challenges budget, manages design changes, and provides technical support. Supports the team technically ensuring quality delivery.
• Serves as an internal leader for technical solutions and innovations on projects. Manages teams of 30 plus or more people, coordinating resources, defining task scopes. Establish clear goals and objectives for the team, actively manages performance, and contributes to communication planning.
• Demonstrates innovative and complex problem-solving skills, driving consistency in design approach and quality of deliverables. Ultimately accountable for the successful delivery of the design.
• Effectively communicates with colleagues on tasks and projects including the client. Provides clear direction and delegates tasks efficiently, leveraging strong written and verbal communication skills for technical reports and presentations. Prepares and maintains delivery plans, processes, and guidelines to ensure the successful execution of technical scopes.
• Actively contributes to and promotes health and safety (HS) in the workplace by implementing and monitoring HS practices and providing necessary training. Understands, promotes, and monitors the use of sustainable solutions.
• Work closely with ATD/TD (BA Manager).
• Flexible to adopt new work /challenging work as per business requirement.
• Should be a part of committees that drives the global initiatives.
• You will have substantial postgraduate (or equivalent) experience and have been awarded Professionally recognized (PE, CEng,, have equivalent international qualification.

Qualifications Experience:
• Have a MTech/MEng or equivalent in Geotechnical Engineering
• Minimum of 15 years of working experience and minimum of 8 years of working experience for UK (desirable) projects in delivering various design and modelling tasks as team lead.
• Having work experience on Design Build Projects is added advantage.
• Achieved international chartered status.
• Previous relevant experience including leadership of the development and implementation of engineering solutions.

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.

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