Associate Director (Water Section)

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director to join one of the world's most prestigious and major names in multi-disciplinary engineering services.

The Water based team in their Leeds office welcome a variety of experience and would utilise the specialist skills of the successful candidate to support their agile and forward-thinking team in growing and delivering innovative multidisciplinary engineering solutions for a broad range of strategic UK and international clients, across clean and wastewater infrastructure and non-infrastructure. Candidates are required to be self-motivated and able to work both independently as well as within a larger multi-disciplinary team on a range of projects including: treatment plants, desalination, pipeline and pumping stations, collection and storage systems.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain key client relationships with local and national water clients.
• Lead on work winning through bid management; production of proposals, fees, scope definition, and quality answers in response to client tenders, in accordance with Akins' bid management system.
• Client or contractor engagement (incl. Design & Build) to lead discussions on technical water civil engineering solutions, to technical and non-technical clients - both during project delivery and bidding stages.
• Identify opportunities to promote value propositions with water clients.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment across teams and Practices to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Lead the efficient delivery of projects to meet programme and budget, complying with company business management governance.
• Accountability for profitable delivery of projects and effective risk management.
• Undertake technical design and/or review and supervision of project teams' design deliverables including engineering design calculations, drawings and report writing complying with Akins' design management system.
• Lead on quality and safe design of technical solutions for projects in accordance with relevant design standards and codes.
• Champion the application of digital engineering initiatives and execution of innovative advances in water sector solutions.
• Mentoring and line management responsibilities for team members from graduates to less experienced senior team members.
• Provide technical leadership in water engineering.

Requirements:

• A degree in civil engineering,
• Chartered Member of a recognised engineering institution,
• Develop and maintain key client relationships with local and national water clients.
• Lead on work winning through bid management; production of proposals, fees, scope definition, and quality answers in response to client tenders, in accordance with Akins' bid management system.
• Client or contractor engagement (incl. Design & Build) to lead discussions on technical water civil engineering solutions, to technical and non-technical clients - both during project delivery and bidding stages.
• Identify opportunities to promote value propositions with water clients.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary environment across teams and Practices to ensure successful delivery of projects.
• Lead the efficient delivery of projects to meet programme and budget, complying with company business management governance.
• Accountability for profitable delivery of projects and effective risk management.
• Undertake technical design and/or review and supervision of project teams' design deliverables including engineering design calculations, drawings and report writing complying with Akins' design management system.
• Lead on quality and safe design of technical solutions for projects in accordance with relevant design standards and codes.
• Champion the application of digital engineering initiatives and execution of innovative advances in water sector solutions.
• Mentoring and line management responsibilities for team members from graduates to less experienced senior team members.
• Provide technical leadership in water engineering.

The successful Associate Director will be rewarded with a competitive salary, generous benefits package and a varied, challenging role. An added benefit of this role is that our client encourages an agile working approach with the opportunity for both flexible and remote working to suit individual needs.

If you would like to know more, please send an updated CV to Graham Ventham to be considered.