Director of Engineering – Water

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.

Arcadis is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our Water team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing key client relationships, ensuring the delivery of high-quality technical solutions, and advancing our expertise within the water sector. This role includes oversight of major projects, risk management, and the implementation of strategic growth initiatives. The Director will also provide strong leadership, supporting and developing team members to achieve their full potential.

In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.

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 of 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.

• Promote continual improvement in SHE performance across the business, including ‘safe by design’ initiatives and personal targets.
• Build relationships with clients and partners to identify and realise business opportunities across all Service Lines and to ensure client expectations and Arcadis’ commercial objectives are met or exceeded.
• Provide technical leadership at a subject level, promoting Arcadis technical excellence across industry and peer groups through strong regional networks.
• Evaluate technical competence of senior staff proposed for projects, supporting our people to realise their potential, identifying and providing specific training and mentoring needs.
• Lead the recruitment and development of water engineering teams with Business Directors, setting objectives and managing performance, to ensure the team has the resources and capability to achieve the business plan.
• Ensure that complex technical projects are effectively led with good communication and collaboration between Arcadis and its partner organisations, proactively leading the resolution of technical issues.
• Keep up to date with developments in the water sector (including technical and legislative), seeking opportunities to develop a strong professional profile for Arcadis at a national level (e.g., conference presentations, thought leadership articles and participation in technical committees).
• Sponsor innovation initiatives that resolve complex client challenges and promote Arcadis leadership in this area.
• In conjunction with Business Directors, establish and agree key performance targets and financial budgets for the engineering teams to optimise business performance in line with set objectives.
• Perform independent technical reviews for complex and major projects that are classified as high risk to the Arcadis Business.
• Encourage innovative and entrepreneurial thinking amongst team members, sponsoring service delivery CoPs.
• Promote and market all facets of the company’s services during client interfaces, providing direction and a leading contribution to complex technical aspects of bids, supporting the production of high quality winning pursuits.

Demonstrable experience of:

• Applying independent judgement and responsibility in leading the resolution of complex technical challenges in a pressured environment
• Establishing and developing high-performing teams capable of delivering complex multi-disciplinary technical projects
• Providing inspiring leadership to mixed teams from varied disciplines, backgrounds and…