Associate Associate Director Roads

About This Role

This role involves providing technical leadership to design teams within the Roads sector, ensuring quality delivery within time and budget constraints. The successful candidate will lead design teams, mentor junior members, and demonstrate a track record of delivering schemes in local or national transport.

Responsibilities

• Support the Midlands Group Director with leadership and business development
• Oversee multi-disciplinary projects of varying scale, complexity, and value, managing budget and financial performance
• Work directly with clients, developing strong trusted relationships, proactively managing their expectations, and comprehensively advising them
• Undertake technical preparation, review, and checking of deliverables
• Work collaboratively with the Roads team and colleagues in the wider Transport and Infrastructure business to achieve aims and objectives
• Use technical ability and experience to support others to maximize their personal contribution to project/team goals
• Lead and manage other staff members in the delivery of design drawings, standard construction details, specifications, and bill of quantities, supporting the preparation of tender packages
• Be responsible for compliance with Health & Safety and Environmental Legislation and in-house quality assurance standards/processes
• Be actively involved with team resource coordination, supporting the setup of teams and putting the right people in the right roles

Requirements

• Broad range of project experience, both within civil engineering discipline and multi-disciplinary projects, focusing on highways
• Ability to use, direct, and check the design outputs created in relevant software including but not limited to Autodesk Civils 3D, Bentley Open Roads Designer, Info Drainage, and/or PDS
• Ability to improve, motivate, and encourage others, lead and implement change programs, inspiring colleagues and driving an innovative and supportive culture
• Commercial and strategic capability with a demonstrable track record in having identified and subsequently delivered new business opportunities
• Proactively manage change on tasks/projects, clearly communicating potential impacts on program, cost, and quality
• Influential and persuasive internally and externally, encouraging open dialogue and feedback
• Proven ability to lead a single or multiple design disciplines in relevant projects (i.e., road, public transport, active travel, public real, and/or private development)
• Experience of contract document preparation or contract administration/site supervision using Public Works Contracts
• Expert client/stakeholder management and interpersonal skills are essential
• Chartered Civil Engineer or an Incorporated Engineer with extensive post professional qualification experience
• Thorough understanding and application of the relevant design codes such as the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges, Manual for Streets, TSRGD, Local Authority design guidance, and well versed in the preparation of drawings for contract documentation and technical approvals including the application of departures from standard
• Experience of complying with Designers Duties under CDM regulations

Nice to have:

• Ability to obtain UK vetting level of Security Check (SC)

About the Company

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