Associate Technical Director - Roads & Highways

Position: Associate Technical Director - Roads & Highways based role)
Location: Bengaluru

We are seeking to recruit an experienced and talented Associate Technical Director to join the UK Local Government team to take the project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK Local Government colleagues, including:

Description
Act as the technical lead for the UK Local Government Roads team projects
Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment/compliance
Project, programme and financial management
Promote WSP Vision and Values
Actively promote the UK GCC culture within the team and ensure that the staff deliver on promises
Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
Manage the team and processes to ensure the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs/deliverables from a variety of Highways-related disciplines meet internal and client requirements and quality assurance standards.
Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the GCC UK Communities team, ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
Mentoring team members towards professional accreditation or equivalent
Carry out and report on staff appraisals and performance development reviews
Recruitment to achieve the budgeted and programmed team growth
Monitor and review team capability in the use of the required standards, processes, software tools, and, with technical colleagues, identify training required
Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
Identify further skills that could be brought into the GCC, India, to deliver additional services or enhancements to various businesses
Ensuring that the Business Management System is implemented and maintained
Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement
Develop/maintain excellent relationships, ensuring repeat business and client satisfaction, internally and externally
Contribution to bids and marketing material
Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement processes, and achievement of KPIs
Ensure process and governance such that all projects comply with Health and Safety, and Quality Assurance Standards.
Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures where required
Client / External focus
Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the team’s performance in client satisfaction
Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums, including technical input to your team
Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge across the Transportation & Infrastructure
People
Inclusively lead people, clearly articulating the vision, defining responsibilities, delegating effectively and providing constructive feedback
Inspire and motivate departmental staff towards technical progression
Be self-motivated to take on a leadership role in project work with a clear focus on timeliness, quality and technical excellence.
Managing people through change and develop succession plans
Create and support innovation
Deal with conflict appropriately
Work across cultures (e.g. international and/or multi-disciplinary projects), embracing diverse points of view
Business Focus
Proactively influences Health, and Wellbeing including for example Safety by Design
Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensuring agreed targets are met
Be responsible for the quality of technical outputs to WSP standards, including any specific UK client standards
Identify appropriately qualified staff to deliver projects with regard to the constraints of project budgets
Champion and mentor others in use of agreed systems and processes
Explore ways to add value and improve personal and team performance
Manage opportunities, risks and project changes/variations so that these deliver advantage to the business
Ensure budget utilisation is met or exceeded
Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded

Qualifications
Mandatory…