Associate Technical Director – Site Evaluation and Restoration (SER)

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description:

• Reports to: Discipline Director (Sustainability Remediation & Advisory) in the GEC.
• Direct Reports: Supervises a team of 5-10 multidisciplinary staff comprising geologist scientists and engineers
• Collaboration: Works closely with the SER BU Director SER Disciplines Lead and SER Growth Director in the US and global
• Leadership: Provides techno-managerial guidance to the multidisciplinary SER team based in GEC.
• Operational: Assists GEC and US leadership in achieving business targets project management quality control and team development.
• Billability & Planning: Responsible for billability and workload management in GEC for his team liaising with US leadership.
• Opportunity Identification: Identifies and pursues growth opportunities in new technical areas and teams within the US
• Relationship Building: Establishes and strengthens relationships with senior staff in US offices.
• Ownership and Delivery: Takes ownership of project delivery and technological capabilities of GEC.
• Business Development: Supports bid proposals and new business pursuits.
• Innovation Encouragement: Fosters creativity and independent thinking within the team particularly concerning digital technologies working with Global Environment Services Director
• Mentorship: Guides team leads and champions for high-quality standards and continuous improvement in safe design practices.
• Role Model: Leads the team by setting direction and serving as an example.
• Task Management: Manages task delivery in line with Arcadis Management Systems to achieve time quality budget and safety goals.
• Best Practice Implementation: Ensures the adoption and sharing of delivery best practices with relevant teams and implementation of procedures and work plans.
• Cultural Promotion: Promotes and upholds both regional and global business culture.

Role Accountabilities:

Leading: The role involves leading and influencing the growth of the Global Excellence Center (GEC) by focusing on performance people culture innovation and growth. As a leader you manage multiple teams across regions or service lines comprising 40-100 colleagues. You must be well-recognized within the region and actively contribute to business expansion.

Performance Expectations / We Always Bring Our Best and Deliver on Our Promises

• You operate partly outside the project environment to support professional leadership in your discipline.
• You are expected to contribute to projects and be partially billable at least 30 to 40%
• You continuously improve safety in our projects making sure risk management and reduction is a primary consideration.
• You take ultimate responsibility for the financial and quality performance of projects at a discipline level creating a culture of ownership and accountability.
• You are accountable for billable hours and billability in your discipline.
• You create clear roles and responsibilities and make your team take ownership of achieving 100% quality (processes / training / checklists.)
• You transparently select project teams which ensure both quality delivery and professional development.
• You play a role in assessing the performance and health of the business line identifying gaps / issues in performance and behavior and associated improvement initiatives.
• You coordinate the wider workload with the region; and proactively identify future training and recruitment needs.
• You provide unbiased and fair input for salary decisions when requested by your line manager.

People & Interactions / We Value Each Other and We Work as One Team

• You lead the promotion of the Arcadis HS&W culture of the business within your discipline.
• You lead teams and provide guidance to the team members to meet the changing technical needs toward innovation and growth. You demonstrate appropriate professionais standards recognizing obligations to society the profession and the environment and exercise responsibilities in an ethical manner.
• You develop coach and motivate team members with different forms of training to enhance skills knowledge and capabilities within the areas of responsibility.
• You engage with GBA to create the right visibility for the team and explore appropriate opportunities to utilizing their skills.
• You build relationships with colleagues regionally and in other GBAs to identify and realize business opportunities and ensure that Arcadis commercial objectives are met or exceeded.
• You have a broad understanding of the business and financial metrics prompting you to drive innovation to increase team contribution needed for the successful operation of the business.

Arcadis Strategy / We dare to shape our future

• You develop training plans to meet current and future needs.
• You understand future trends and technologies structuring the team to meet future change accordingly.
• You drive colleagues engagement with the Arcadis mission values and strategy; and collaboratively create action plans to implement these in your discipline.
• You play a major role to support the formulation of strategy for the business line.
• You encourage exploration and implementation of digital technologies.
• You maintain and develop knowledge of standardization and automation within the team

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors or masters in environmental/Mech/Civil Engineering/Geochemistry/Geology/Hydrogeology or equivalent. PhD preferred.
• Ideally 15 years of professional experience.
• Strong technical background and experience in Site Evaluation and Restoration Contaminated Land and Remediation.
• Experience in managing staff and stakeholders across a wide range of disciplines.
• Confident in building strong and lasting relationships with senior stakeholders in the GEC the US and the global level.
• Awareness of global digital and technology trends related to the environmental sector.
• A strong self-motivated and assertive person capable of working under pressure.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Experience with PFAS will also be great.
• Flexible to adopt changes and challenges as per business requirements.

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its 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.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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 equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women minorities and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race caste creed colour religion sex age disability marital status sexual orientation and gender identity.

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