Associate Technical Director Principal Engineer Dams & Reservoirs
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Job Summary
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:
Due to continued expansion of our UK reservoir safety and water infrastructure portfolio we are seeking an Associate Technical Director specialising in reservoir engineering to join our team. This is a key leadership opportunity for an experienced reservoir engineer who wants to take responsibility for complex reservoir safety projects shape technical delivery and help develop a specialist capability within a collaborative national team.
Our work supports clients responsible for critical reservoir assets helping them manage safety statutory compliance resilience and long-term investment decisions in response to ageing infrastructure and a changing climate. Our portfolio spans the full asset lifecycle including feasibility inspection optioneering design construction support refurbishment asset management statutory compliance independent technical review and strategic advisory services.
You will play a visible role in delivering nationally important reservoir safety projects strengthening our technical capability mentoring others and influencing how we support clients in managing some of the UKs most important water infrastructure. This is a role for someone who wants to combine hands-on technical leadership with the opportunity to shape a growing reservoir engineering team.
Role accountabilities:
As an Associate Technical Director and reservoir engineering subject matter expert you will:
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients bringing technical judgement leadership and commercial awareness to complex reservoir safety commissions and shaping successful project outcomes.
- Be responsible for leading complex reservoir safety and associated hydraulic infrastructure projects from inception to completion including technical direction client communication risk management programme commercial performance and quality assurance.
- Maintain technical oversight and governance across projects ensuring quality safety sustainability financial accountability risk management and compliance with relevant legislation standards and best practice.
- Lead and contribute to bids framework opportunities and commercial proposals developing compelling technical approaches robust delivery plans and strong client relationships.
- Shape technical approaches support service development and provide leadership mentoring and line management for engineers and specialists helping to build a strong reservoir engineering capability.
- Collaborate across disciplines and geographies to deliver integrated climate adaptation flood risk water infrastructure and asset management solutions.
- Promote digital tools data-led approaches and emerging technologies to improve reservoir inspection assessment design delivery and asset management.
- Represent Arcadis externally through professional engagement industry networks technical papers conferences and thought leadership.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Masters degree (MEng MSc or equivalent) in Civil Engineering or a related discipline or equivalent relevant experience.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) with a relevant professional institution (ICE CIWEM IStructE or equivalent).
- Proven experience leading the technical delivery and assurance of reservoir engineering and dam safety projects including work on operational reservoir assets.
- Experienced in mentoring and developing engineers and specialists supporting capability growth technical excellence and business development.
- Strong technical knowledge of reservoir safety management including Reservoirs Act compliance inspection surveillance risk assessment refurbishment spillways drawdown facilities embankment dams outlet works and associated hydraulic structures.
- Experience working with or supporting Undertakers Supervising Engineers Inspecting Engineers regulators and asset owners on reservoir safety compliance and investment planning.
- Membership of the DEFRA Reservoir Panel of Engineers or demonstrable progression towards panel membership is desirable.
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 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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About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more
