Technical Director

As a Board Director, you will work collaboratively with fellow Board members to drive sustainable, profitable growth while ensuring the business continues to deliver outstanding service, innovation, and value to clients and stakeholders. You will be responsible for leading and developing our technical functions, ensuring they operate efficiently, consistently, and in line with our strategic objectives.

The Technical Director will provide strategic leadership across the following areas:

• Lead and develop the design function to deliver high-quality, innovative, and commercially viable solutions.
• Ensure technical excellence, compliance, and continuous improvement across all projects.
• Champion best practice, quality assurance, and knowledge sharing.

• Drive the adoption and integration of digital technologies throughout the business.
• Lead digital transformation initiatives that improve productivity, collaboration, and customer outcomes.
• Ensure the business remains at the forefront of industry innovation.

• Lead and champion the company's sustainability strategy across projects and operations.
• Drive measurable improvements in environmental performance and reporting.
• Ensure sustainability supports customer relationships, innovation, and business growth.

• Ensure a high-performing aftercare function that delivers exceptional client support and long-term customer satisfaction.
• Develop processes that strengthen customer relationships and encourage repeat business.
• Monitor performance and implement continuous improvements.

• Lead technical assurance and quality standards across all projects.
• Reduce risk, defects and avoidable cost through robust governance and continuous improvement.
• Promote best practice and lessons learned to drive consistency and customer satisfaction.

• Build, develop and inspire high-performing teams.
• Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous development.
• Support succession planning and leadership development across the business.
• Work closely with Preconstruction and Operations teams to support successful project delivery.

• Lead and develop relationships with our design consultants and professional service partners.
• Drive continuous improvement through consultant performance reviews, feedback and lessons learned.
• Ensure our design partners consistently deliver quality, innovation, and value.

We are seeking an exceptional Technical Director to join our Board and play a pivotal role in delivering our long-term growth ambitions. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader who can combine technical excellence with strategic vision, commercial awareness, and strong people leadership., You will be an experienced senior leader with a track record of delivering results in technical, design or construction related environment and will have experience of:

• Delivering predictable and profitable growth.
• Maintaining strong customer relationships, repeat business and client trust.
• Making timely decisions while ensuring appropriate governance and risk management.
• Holding individuals and teams to account while maintaining high levels of engagement and performance.
• Translating business strategy into clear, practical, and effective execution.
• Building organisational capability faster than workload growth.
• Developing strong leadership and accountability within the tier below Board level.
• Understanding and embracing the interdependency of Board members in achieving collective success.
• Working in a technical role within the construction or related sector

• Previous experience in a director level role.
• Strong commercial and strategic thinking.
• Excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• The ability…