Associate Technical Director - Civils / Structures

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

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description: We are seeking an experienced Associate Technical Director to join our Rail South, West & Wales Business Unit, supporting the delivery of major rail structures projects across the region. Working as part of our Rail South, West & Wales Civil & Structural Engineering team, you will provide technical leadership across a diverse portfolio including depots and maintenance facilities, bridge replacements, and station upgrade and new-build schemes. This is an excellent opportunity for a collaborative and client-focused leader who enjoys solving complex challenges, developing high-performing teams and shaping the growth of our rail business.

Role Accountabilities:

• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary rail projects, guiding design development, decision-making and technical assurance to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders and project teams, offering trusted advice throughout the project lifecycle and supporting successful delivery.
• Support project and design managers with technical governance, resource planning, safety-critical reviews and the effective delivery of complex design work.
• Mentor and develop engineers within the team, chair technical reviews and promote a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement and health and safety.
• Contribute to work winning and business growth, including strengthening client relationships, expanding our market presence and helping shape regional growth strategies.

Qualifications & Experience:

• BEng or MEng in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status through a recognised professional institution.
• Significant experience leading the technical delivery of rail structures or multidisciplinary rail infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of design assurance, health and safety, safety-critical processes and relevant rail industry standards, with the ability to undertake the role of Contractor’s Engineering Manager to NR/L2/INI/02009 if required.
• Proven ability to build client relationships, lead technical teams, support business development and mentor others in a collaborative and inclusive environment.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s 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.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll 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.

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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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