Technical Director - Civil Engineering (Development)
On-siteEdinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Provide strategic direction and highly visible leadership for the Development discipline, focusing on client-facing activities, technical leadership, and business growth rather than day-to-day operational management. Liaise with the Technical Leadership Group to promote technical innovation and best practice for infrastructure development, while working in partnership with colleagues to share market intelligence and establish lasting relationships with key decision-makers. Drive business development by embedding within local networks, winning work from major accounts, and leading bids by reviewing and authorising submissions. Act as Project Manager or Director for strategically important commissions, ensuring team compliance with SHEQ standards and mentoring selected colleagues on succession and emerging talent schedules.
Required Qualifications
- Degree level qualification in civil engineering
- Chartered status or working towards chartership
- A broad range of project experience across civil design for developments
- Inter-personal skills with good leadership and management abilities
- Commercial and strategic capability with a demonstrable track record in having identified and subsequently delivered new business opportunities
- Expert stakeholder management and related relationship and team management skills
- Demonstrate ability to improve, motivate and encourage others within the workplace, lead and implement change programmes, inspiring colleagues and drive an innovative and supportive culture. Act as a catalyst for change
- Forward thinking, capable of visualising and planning for the longer term
- A broad range of project experience, both within Discipline and multi-disciplinary
- Demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively, use own knowledge to support and coach others as required
- Have presentation skills, able to lead and facilitate workshops, training sessions and one to one learning
- Influential and persuasive internally and externally, encourages open dialogue and feedback
- Able to establish, build, sustain and share, professional relationships with relevant groups both inside and outside the organisation
- Driven to exceed client expectations
- Able to reason logically and apply a systematic process to finding solutions, proactive in responding to problems, able to apply sound logic in situations of ambiguity and problem-solving methodologies across a range of circumstances
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