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 Enabling Infrastructure team under the Mobility sector is currently seeking to locate a career minded Associate Technical Director who has gained proven work experience in the design and management of land development infrastructure and drainage solutions for development.

In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

Role accountabilities:

You will be leading the infrastructure and drainage design and modelling of a project team using a variety of software and manual calculation methods. Project duties will include preparation of design solutions at various stages of a project; production management of drawings / BIM models, reports, specifications and estimates;; attendance at meetings and checking the work of other team members to ensure accuracy. You will also be working on project management duties that includes co-ordination of a wide range of discipline inputs; monitoring and protecting our client relationships; planning and programming; commercial management and presenting projects for audit.

As a technical design lead, you have a scope to contribute to the resolution of technical issues on projects and provide technical guidance to other team members, such as more junior engineers, technicians, and apprentices.

Qualifications and Experience:

· Degree qualified with Chartered status although those close to achieving chartered status would also be considered and supported in development of their professional qualifications.

· Substantial design experience gained in development infrastructure, with experience of highways, railways or other major infrastructure schemes throughout the UK. Some experience of overseas projects would be an advantage;

· A proven background in development infrastructure including surface water, foul water drainage, highway and utility design;

· Sound knowledge of SuDS, SfA, DMRB, and Local Authority design standards;

· Experienced in preparing initial feasibility and site appraisal studies, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver successful planning applications;

· Detailed design delivery for development led and transport infrastructure including delivery in a D&B environment;

· Expertise in software design methods such as MicroDrainage/InfoDrainage, and AutoCAD Civils3D including integration with BIM models;

· Technically competent in fundamental design principles and have ability to apply manual calculation methods where software methods are not available;

· Line management and performance management experience. Experienced in mentoring and development of team members.

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.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

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. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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