Associate Technical Director

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 to improving 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.

We are seeking an experienced Design Manager to join our Design & Engineering team to meet the demands of our strong and growing pipeline of work. As the Design Manager you will lead and manage the multi-disciplinary design delivery process across complex buildings projects and be accountable for delivering high quality design outcomes that meet the scope budget program and safety requirements of the project.

You will have a proactive client focused mindset with a best-for-project approach to delivery. You will contribute to our teams success in delivering projects across health education (tertiary and secondary) research and transport-oriented developments such as integrated stations and large-scale precinct redevelopments.

• Transform project brief requirements into a delivery strategy and design schedule
• Manage the design scope and progress of designs ensuring deadlines are met
• Day to day liaison with client external stakeholders and key discipline leads from project team(s)
• Lead the multi-disciplinary design and coordination of Arcadis project team and ensure a high degree of coordination between disciplines for interfacing with external design consultants or stakeholders
• Provide oversight and adherence to Arcadis quality and documentation processes to manage risks change and tracking of key design decisions
• Monitor and coordinate project resources to meet program requirements and alignment with design scope
• Manage compliance of design to project requirements and applicable standards
• Providing project teams with design leadership and technical guidance
• Manage and lead key discipline leads to ensure consistent design output and liaising with the Project Director to ensure design meets overall project and client expectations
• Liaising with the clients Project Manager to ensure works are delivered to their expectation.
  

• A strong project and design management background (ideally 10 years) working on major/large-scale buildings projects with a capital value of greater than $300 million and proven track record of successfully delivering these projects
• A background in technical design delivery (building engineering or architecture)
• Experience working with partners and contractors different contractual arrangements.
• Ability to negotiate influence and communicate technical knowledge to a range of stakeholders across public and private sectors in particular government agencies and D&C contractors to deliver best for project outcomes
• Sound commercial background including familiarity with contractual conditions and procedures including ability to assess risk to complement overall project leadership team.
• Experience in managing and working large multi-disciplinary teams
• Proven knowledge and understanding of inter-disciplinary design dependencies and impacts for project delivery.
  

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