Associate Technical Director -Ecology

Job Description

Key point of contact for UK-based business, including direct liaison with Nature Services & Arboriculture business's directors
Commercial management and reporting, workload forecasting and planning of resources for the team
Supervising and directing local delivery to support projects and assisting in the professional and technical development of Nature Services colleagues
Providing operational and technical leadership in the coordination and successful delivery of our work delivered by ecology iCRC colleauges
Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required

Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK colleagues including:

Act as the ' technical face' of the India-based Ecology team
Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment / compliance
Project, programme and financial management
Represents the interest of team which he/she leads
Record of leadership of projects and teams, providing consultancy services at a high level to client.
Have proven successful project management record of larger, multiple and/or more complex projects and tasks
Possess excellent commercial skills and accountability and drives commercial excellence within their projects and teams
Have proven track record of technical oversight and guidance of people, teams, proposals, and projects
Proven track record in producing clear and well written bid documents/ reports and communicates professionally and concisely to clients and co-workers
Ensures and maintains a high-quality standard of work from all team and project members through robust review and constructive and developmental feedback
Understands the challenges and works collaboratively to find, and implement solutions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Promote WSP Vision and Values
Actively promote the UK GCC Charter within the team and that the staff deliver on the Charter promises
Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the iCRC Ecology team and ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement, lessons learned exercises with appropriate changes implemented
Develop / maintain excellent client 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 performance KPIs

Qualifications

Client / External focus

Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the teams' performance of client satisfaction
Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums
Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge

Business Focus

Proactively influences Health and Safety (Safety by Design)
Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensure 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 utilizations is met or exceeded
Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded.

BGV:

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