Associate Technical Director - Roads & Highways

Job Description

Act as the technical lead for the UK Communities Roads team projects

• Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment / compliance
• Project, programme and financial management
• Promote WSP Vision and Values
• Actively promote the UK GCC culture within the team and ensure that the staff deliver on promises
• Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
• Manage the team and processes to ensure the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs / deliverables from a variety of Highways-related disciplines meet internal and client requirements and quality assurance standards.
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the GCC UK Communities team, ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
• Mentoring team members towards professional accreditation or equivalent
• Carry out and report on staff appraisals and performance development reviews
• Recruitment to achieve the budgeted and programmed team growth
• Monitor and review team capability in the use of the required standards, processes, software tools, and, with technical colleagues, identify training required
• Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
• Identify further skills that could be brought into the GCC, India, to deliver additional services or enhancements to various businesses
• Ensuring that the Business Management System is implemented and maintained
• Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement
• Develop / maintain excellent 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 KPIs
• Ensure process and governance such that all projects comply with Health and Safety, and Quality Assurance Standards.
• Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures where required

Client / External focus

People

Business Focus

Key Competencies / Skills

Qualifications

Mandatory skills

Skills Required

design standards , Project Management, Quality Assurance Standards