Associate Technical Director (Geotechnical)- Team Lead, UK

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 teams 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 teams utilization and billability. Checking/Reviewing teams performance and ensuring quality delivery. Responsible for teams 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 (H&S) in the workplace by implementing and monitoring H&S 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.