Overhead Line Technical 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:

The Overhead Line Technical Director provides senior professional and technical leadership for Overhead Line engineering within the electrical Transmission and Distribution market. The role owns and develops OHL capability sets technical direction and strengthens Arcadis reputation with clients and across the industry.

You will lead the technical delivery and assurance of major complex or high-risk OHL projects and specialised OHL elements of multidisciplinary programmes. You will establish trusted senior client relationships support strategic pursuits and develop people and capability across UK and global delivery teams.

Where appointed and appropriately competent you may also undertake Project Manager responsibilities in accordance with Arcadis governance requirements.

Role accountabilities:

• Safety health and wellbeing
  • Lead by example and promote continual improvement in SHE performance including Safe by Design.
  • Ensure OHL engineering decisions consider relevant legislation hazards constructability operation maintenance dismantling and safe systems of work.
  • Promote a culture in which SHE concerns and lessons are raised addressed and shared.
• Technical leadership and assurance
  • Establish OHL standards methods and good practice and provide recognised technical leadership.
  • Lead the development and evaluation of solutions for complex OHL problems selecting appropriate techniques procedures tools and design approaches.
  • Provide specialised input to major studies and designs guide client decisions and develop alternatives when project parameters change.
  • Act as controlling technical authority Technical Reviewer or independent reviewer on major complex or high-risk projects.
  • Lead interdisciplinary reviews and resolve significant differences of technical opinion across designers checkers reviewers contractors and stakeholders.
  • Enable advancing technologies digital methods and continuous-improvement systems while maintaining robust technical governance and quality management.
• Project and commercial delivery
  • Lead technical delivery of major and complex OHL projects across Arcadis teams global resources and third parties.
  • Plan direct and control technical tasks people and resources to meet scope programme quality and budget requirements.
  • Evaluate team competence define technical roles and identify training mentoring or specialist support.
  • Oversee project reviews controls and forecasts taking timely action on delivery technical commercial and resource risks.
  • Where appointed as Project Manager manage scope change invoicing debt suppliers subconsultants contractors and contractual matters.
  • Ensure teams understand the strategy brief client requirements interfaces acceptance criteria and management systems.
• People and capability leadership
  • Lead coach and mentor OHL professionals supporting career development professional registration and succession.
  • Take technical line-management responsibility for assigned team members including objectives performance development and capability planning.
  • Support workforce planning and recruitment including selection of senior engineers and technical leaders.
  • Build an inclusive collaborative culture and champion effective use of global design and delivery resources.
• Clients markets and reputation
  • Build trusted senior client relationships and lead resolution of significant issues and risks.
  • Identify opportunities for OHL services cross-disciplinary collaboration cross-sell and trade-up while protecting commercial objectives.
  • Lead or provide authoritative input to bids estimates programmes and presentations for strategic pursuits.
  • Promote Arcadis services contribute to market-backed pricing and maintain a strong national professional profile.

Qualifications & Experience:

• BSc/BEng MSc/MEng or equivalent in Electrical Civil Structural or another relevant engineering discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status or an internationally recognised equivalent.
• Extensive recognised OHL expertise within electrical Transmission and Distribution supported by an established industry network.
• Extensive consulting and technical-leadership experience on large-scale highly complex or high-risk engineering projects.
• Strong knowledge of OHL interfaces with substations underground cables civil and structural engineering geotechnics environmental and consenting construction operations and asset management.
• Sound knowledge of statutory regulatory contractual and commercial frameworks with the ability to exercise independent judgement and accountability.
• Strong consulting project-management and senior client-relationship skills including influencing at executive or senior-management level.
• Ability to plan tasks people resources budgets and schedules manage quality and integrate Arcadis service lines into coherent solutions.
• Sound sustainable-development knowledge clear communication ethical practice inclusive leadership and commitment to continuing professional development.
• Relevant project-management experience and competence to undertake a Project Manager role where required.

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.