Associate Director, Highway Engineering

Responsibilities We are seeking to recruit an experienced and talented Associate Technical Director to join the UK Communities team to take the project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK Communities colleagues including :

Description for Internal Candidates

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 for Internal Candidates

Mandatory skills