Discipline Director

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

We are more than 34000 people in over 30 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:

Overall leadership of Discipline team of professional staff located across multiple GECs ensuring growth of capabilities and capacity to meet business demands and delivery of high-quality project outcomes.

Role accountabilities:

• Provide professional leadership in their discipline at a senior management level establishing and consolidating relationships with senior staff in BA offices taking ownership for the delivery of the GECs technical capability supporting the delivery of tasks or specialized components of projects
• Plan and drive the development of Arcadis capability and capacity in the discipline to meet project demands working with Talent Acquisition and Learning Development to ensure business needs can be met in advance.
• Drive a culture of project delivery excellence within the discipline ensuring that adequate talent is available and assigned to lead on project delivery from a technical and task management perspective.
• Ensure the delivery of projects/tasks within the team is in accordance with Management Systems to meet time quality budgetary and health and safety targets
• Engage with the senior leadership in the BAs and champion the involvement and inclusion of GEC capability in their delivery model using SOPs to standardize the delivery approach.
• Drive the implementation of the GEC strategy within the discipline including managing changes associated with the operating model
• Communicate change and manage transformation within the team aligned to the strategic direction of the company and GECs.
• Develop and implement workforce plans regarding building capability and capacity of the teams over the medium to long term in consultation with GEC BA Business Partners Workforce Planners Service Delivery Managers and GEC Director (Places).
• Manage day to day workload within the teams to ensure that direct and indirect hour targets are achieved working in close collaboration with the Workforce Planner.
• Work with Service Delivery Managers to define and implement standardization and automation initiatives within the Discipline teams.
• Ensure a strong focus on career development driving a culture of best practice around GPS and empowerment of staff to own the development of their careers.
• Foster a strong culture of health and safety awareness and practices within the teams setting a leadership example and holding senior staff to account.
• Manage staff engagement levels and attrition by drawing insights from tools such as YourVoice identifying engagement drivers and developing and implementing action plans to ensure a well engaged team.
• Accountable for delivery of key operational metrics within discipline such as hourly and cost billability management of software usage overtime and other relevant metrics associated with Discipline teams.
• Manage team shape and size within the discipline to ensure that adequate levels of seniority for leadership task management and technical roles are in place to support current and future delivery requirements.
• Create and drive the development of Global Talent teams (flexible pool staff) aligned with guiding principles and targets agreed with GEC Director (Places).

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.

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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. At Arcadis you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations their own career goals. And as a people first business it is why we will take the time to listen to understand what you want from your time here and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.