Associate Director Geo-Environmental

A permanent, senior position with a competitive salary and excellent benefits package.

MEC is a multi-disciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy, delivering services for private and public sector projects across residential, commercial, industrial, retail, leisure, education, and healthcare. Operating nationally from offices in Leicestershire, Birmingham, Brighton and Nottingham, we provide expert guidance for a wide range of clients.

We are hiring for an experienced Associate Director to join our Geo-Environmental team.
The location of this role is flexible, and can be based from either our Birmingham, Leicester or Nottingham office!

In this role, you’ll play a key role in a variety of projects across the residential, commercial, and public sectors. You will deliver high quality and technically accurate calculations and reports, keeping within agreed time frames. You will be responsible for leading, building and developing a team across multiple offices and enabling collaboration between disciplines to meet clients needs.

The Associate Director will take strategic responsibility for the Geo-Environmental discipline, leading its technical, commercial and operational performance across MEC. The role combines senior leadership, project oversight and business development, with accountability for team growth, service quality and long-term discipline development.

• Responsible for building and leading a team.

• Assist the Directors with business operations to meet the productivity and growth aspirations of the company;

• Working nationally across the UK, including additional hours if necessary, to supervise site works and attend meetings and events to enable the delivery of all responsibilities.

• The Senior Management Team (SMT) is responsible for driving operational excellence and ensuring the achievement of long-term business objectives.

• Actively participate in high-level decision-making processes that affect the overall direction of the company;

• Contributing to Senior Management Team/Board Meetings, driving continuous improvement in business processes to enhance productivity, quality, and efficiency across the company.

• Responsible for building and leading a team over multiple offices, acting as the ‘discipline lead.’

• Enable effective collaboration across offices to ensure consistency and high-quality delivery.

• Assist the Directors with business operations to meet the productivity and growth aspirations of the company;

• Attend meetings with clients, development teams, other disciplines and relevant third-parties;

• Deliver high service levels to clients and secure repeat business/future opportunities for the company;

• Ensure the delivery of high quality and technically accurate calculations, technical documents, reports and correspondence to clients within agreed time frames and budgets;

• Adherence to 2-stage checking procedures, in accordance with company procedures;

• Regular communication both internally and externally, obtaining feedback on performance from clients, agreeing fee proposals and timescales;

• Compliance with Designer’s responsibilities under the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015. Maintain a valid CSCS card. Working understanding of site/construction safety;

• Working nationally across the UK, including additional hours if necessary, to supervise site works and attend meetings and events to enable the delivery of all responsibilities.

• Management of projects across a range of sectors and, where instructed by a Director, across multiple disciplines;

• Effective management to company standards including administration, client liaison, quality, fee proposals, budgeting, resource management, team briefing and invoicing;

• Management of clients and projects, including regular communication, attendance at meetings, obtaining feedback on performance, agreeing fee proposals and timescales;

• Monthly invoicing and Work in Progress (WIP) management;

• Managing applicable project finances, ensuring projects operate within agreed budgets.

• Completion of environmental risk assessments (desk studies), intrusive ground…