Associate Technical Director - Roads & Highways

• Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment/compliance
• Project, programme and financial management
• Promote WSP Vision and Values
• Actively promote the UK GCC culture within the team and ensure that the staff deliver on promises
• Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
• Manage the team and processes to ensure the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs/deliverables from a variety of Highways-related disciplines meet internal and client requirements and quality assurance standards.
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the GCC UK Communities team, ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
• Mentoring team members towards professional accreditation or equivalent
• Carry out and report on staff appraisals and performance development reviews
• Recruitment to achieve the budgeted and programmed team growth
• Monitor and review team capability in the use of the required standards, processes, software tools, and, with technical colleagues, identify training required
• Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
• Identify further skills that could be brought into the GCC, India, to deliver additional services or enhancements to various businesses
• Ensuring that the Business Management System is implemented and maintained
• Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement
• Develop/maintain excellent relationships, ensuring repeat business and client satisfaction, internally and externally
• Contribution to bids and marketing material
• Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement processes, and achievement of KPIs
• Ensure process and governance such that all projects comply with Health and Safety, and Quality Assurance Standards.
• Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures where required
  

• Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the team’s performance in client satisfaction
• Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums, including technical input to your team
• Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge across the Transportation & Infrastructure
  

• Inclusively lead people, clearly articulating the vision, defining responsibilities, delegating effectively and providing constructive feedback
• Inspire and motivate departmental staff towards technical progression
• Be self-motivated to take on a leadership role in project work with a clear focus on timeliness, quality and technical excellence.
• Managing people through change and develop succession plans
• Create and support innovation
• Deal with conflict appropriately
• Work across cultures (e.g. international and/or multi-disciplinary projects), embracing diverse points of view
  

• Proactively influences Health, and Wellbeing including for example Safety by Design
• Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensuring agreed targets are met
• Be responsible for the quality of technical outputs to WSP standards, including any specific UK client standards
• Identify appropriately qualified staff to deliver projects with regard to the constraints of project budgets
• Champion and mentor others in use of agreed systems and processes
• Explore ways to add value and improve personal and team performance
• Manage opportunities, risks and project changes/variations so that these deliver advantage to the business
• Ensure budget utilisation is met or exceeded
• Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded
  

Qualifications

• You should be able to demonstrate a proven working knowledge of the Design Standards practiced across the UK and experience
• Track record of senior technical experience in Highways discipline.
• Excellent communication, internal client handling, interpersonal skills and listening skills with the ability to influence and interact with people
• Comfortable leading internal engineering discussions and the experience and ability to understand, evaluate and explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals
• Technical manager with management acumen and strong leadership skills
• Open-minded and intellectually agile
• A hard-working self-starter with initiative and ability to work within a team environment
• Understand own strengths and impact, adapting behaviour according to different situations and individuals
• Able to work effectively under pressure
• Act ethically with fairness, honesty, and integrity
• Successful track record of delivery of large detail design projects in the Highways sector within the context of a professional services provider
• The candidate should have demonstrable experience in resource and project management
• The candidate should be aware of current and emerging technologies relevant to the highways sector
• Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals, and design teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Effective time management and strong organisational skills