Technical Director - Geoenvironmental Head of Discipline

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

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. 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:

The Site Evaluation & Restoration (SER) team is our award-winning specialist business area that investigates, assesses and manages all aspects of the below ground environment with the additional wrap-around project, contract and commercial management teams specialising in all aspects of brownfield regeneration, contaminated land clean-up and demolition services.

We are currently looking to recruit a Geoenvironmental Discipline Lead to join the SER Leadership Team to lead the Geoenvironmental Discipline within SER and undertake key leadership activities including: embedding technical excellence in delivery, developing and implementing team structure & growth plan as well as developing and implementing key roles, responsibilities and delegation.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. You will be actively encouraged to challenge yourself, learn new things, and use your skills wherever they can make an impact across the extent of our Sustainability Advisory and wider business.

Role accountabilities:

Alongside the wider requirements of a Senior Leader within Arcadis, this specific role has the following key requirements.

• The Head of Discipline holds ultimate Line Management responsibility for the Discipline of approximately 90 individuals.
• Work with Disciplines Lead to identify growth requirements for the Discipline and assess current capacity and capability. Develop recruitment, training and mentoring plans to both retention and support growth requirements.
• Build strong working relationships with other SER Disciplines and wider Arcadis Service to drive better collaboration.
• Supply chain – identify where service critical gaps exist and develop plan to bridge the gap.
• Act as Leadership sponsor for relevant Communities of Practice (CoPs) to enable effective knowledge share.
• Provide insight and support development of strategic direction and market opportunities for the team, working with the SER Solutions Lead and Leadership Team to build a pipeline and sales revenue aligned to plan.
• Work with the Disciplines Lead and People Lead to develop a high performing, positive and vibrant SER business, where people understand their impact and contribution to the SER Business Plan and have the skills and capability to deliver.
• This role has ultimate accountability for developing and implementing a structure and delegated authority to ensure delivery of high-quality pursuits and proposals.
• As Head of Discipline you will be required to work closely with the Business Managers and Project Managers to manage delivery to Client requirements and to the contracted scope of service.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and digitization in service delivery.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

This role requires:

• Demonstrable experience at a senior level within the Geoenvironmental Sector.
• Recognised Industry Leader
• Proven Technical Skills and Experience aligned to discipline
• Chartership is desirable but not essential if experience is relevant and demonstrable.
• A strong professional profile.
  
  

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.

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.

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