Technical Director/ Senior Design Manager

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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.

Off the back of growing demand in our transport team and to support an exciting array of future projects, we are looking for a Senior Design Manager with Highways and infrastructure industry experience to provide leadership across complex multidisciplinary projects.

You will have a strong technical background in roads and highways engineering, have an in-depth understanding of digital delivery processes and have demonstrated leadership attributes in the delivery of major projects within Australia.

• Providing sound and effective leadership by providing direction and technical advice, leading by example and championing a quality culture;
• Ability to effectively implement project delivery best practice in the following areas: risk and change management, planning, project set-up, common data environments (including BIM and doc control);
• Establishing and implementing robust quality control procedures in line with Arcadis’ quality assurance process
• Supporting effective financial and project management controls
• Working to ensure successful project outcomes, maximum client satisfaction, championing client care and proactively working with the client;
• Driving project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectation;
• Seeking / pursuing design opportunities, and the preparation of bids and tender submissions;
• Developing people on projects by playing to their strengths and providing stretch targets to enable our people to reach their potential; and
• Manage, mentor and develop less experienced members of the Arcadis Civil Infrastructure team.
• Ultimate accountability for technical and program delivery

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving quality of life.

You are a seasoned design management professional with extensive experience in the transportation infrastructure market and come to us with: