Technical Director of Engineering - Waterloo, ON, Canada - IBI Group

Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Arcadis is seeking at Technical Director Municipal Roadway Engineering to join our Design and Engineering Ontario team. You will be responsible for running and building the firm's municipal roadway engineering practice.

This is a senior role that will involve developing and implementing a strategic plan to expand the firm's practice to deliver top-quality engineering projects to existing and new clients.

This role is a combination of technical leadership and operational management. In addition, you will also involve participating in management discussions of the firm and direction of the firm.

Day to day activities within this role will involve hiring of staff and managers, leading and mentoring of staff, visiting multiple Arcadis offices to work with various teams, management of the team, and coordination with other teams within Arcadis.

Business development will be a big part of the role including client relationship management, marketing, proposals both leading, writing, and reviewing/approving.

To take a Principal role in projects, providing leadership, technical advice and overview as required
To provide consultancy services for projects and be able to develop solutions that fall outside the standard codes
To manage the delivery of specialised components of projects and establish the most effective team to achieve this
To manage technical risk mitigation, safety, and value in design processes
To develop and deliver integrated design programmes and key performance milestones and reports at all stages
To assist in the technical development of staff, coaching and mentoring on technical issues
To establish and consolidate relationships with clients, both during and after project completion
To use technical knowledge to identify and realise new client opportunities
To provide technical input into the bidding process
15 + years consulting experience on projects of significant scale and/or complexity
~ Demonstrated technical, commercial and delivery acumen

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.

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.

Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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