Discipline Director - Structural Engineering

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

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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.

Role description:

Aligned with the Arcadis and GEC strategy, the position is responsible for understanding the GEC aspirations of our BAs and translating this into a clear service delivery strategy.  Implementing this by building and retaining highly capable and diverse skills and capabilities aligned to short and long-term workforce needs and optimizing the demand and supply of talent across geographies creating flexible and highly utilized teams.

As Discipline Director, you will lead and manage GEC Mobility (Transportation) Structures business operations comprising of 400+ engineering and BIM professionals across our GEC locations. This role reports directly to the GEC Director – Mobility and working alongside the other Discipline Directors.

Role accountabilities:

This role requires a combination of technical competencies in Structural engineering, strategic thinking, people management, infrastructure project delivery, and a deep understanding of the business landscape. With cross-country line management, you will manage the existing teams and develop the team in terms of competency and capacity to cater to the growing demand of our projects in USA, Canada, UK, Europe and Australia. 

• Provide professional leadership at a senior management level, establishing and consolidating relationships with senior staff in BA offices, taking ownership for the delivery of the GEC’s technical capability, supporting the delivery of tasks or specialized components of projects
• Drive a culture of project delivery excellence within the discipline, ensuring that adequate talent is available and assigned to lead on project delivery from a technical and task management perspective. 
• Develop and implement workforce plans regarding building capability and capacity of the teams over the medium to long term in consultation with GEC BA Business Partners, Workforce Planners, Service Delivery Managers and GEC Director (Mobility). 
• Manage team shape and size within the discipline to ensure that adequate levels of seniority for leadership, task management and technical roles are in place to support current and future delivery requirements. 
• Work with Service Delivery Managers to define and implement standardization and automation initiatives within the Discipline teams.
• Ensure a strong focus on career development, driving a culture of best practice around GPS and empowerment of staff to own the development of their careers.
• Foster a strong culture of health and safety awareness and practices within the teams, setting a leadership example and holding senior staff to account.
• Accountable for delivery of key operational metrics within discipline such as hourly and cost billability, management of software usage, overtime and other relevant metrics associated with Discipline teams.
• Collaborate closely with other Discipline Directors to remove silos and deliver best for Client, Arcadis and People outcomes

Key shared accountabilities:

• Planning and delivery of GEC targets
• GEC involvement in pursuit process
• Understanding of GEC capability and capacity to deliver GEC implementation plan

Qualifications & Experience:

The candidate should have a bachelor or master's degree, appropriate professional accreditation, and at least 10+ years of experience leading and growing a significant business function within a multinational engineering or professional services firm. The candidate will be able to inspire multi-disciplinary teams around a common purpose and demonstrate significant leadership capability. 

The right candidate possesses a high level of intellectual, professional, and interpersonal agility and flexibility. Strong commercial acumen is required to support GEC involvement at pursuit phase, working in collaboration with BA stakeholders and senior GEC staff.

For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas: 

• Leading transformation: Ability to bring people on a journey to the unknown, creating a sense of stability and security in uncertain times, avoiding change fatigue. 
• Managing change: Managing change e.g. divestments or mergers/acquisitions, growing a start-up, or leading change into other market/services or products, operating with new business models, turning around underperforming businesses, programs or teams and driving standardization and automation at scale.
• Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies. 

Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model we seek Arcadians with a strong fit to our leadership success profile, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability. Successful Arcadians will possess strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion. 

Be curious:

• Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation.
• Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset.
• Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation-led and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation.
• Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict.

Drive success:

• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery.
• Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others. 
• Internalize organizational goals, making them one’s own personal stretch goals.
• Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to sustainable solutions.

Ignite passion:

• Personally, build trust through authenticity, role model own commitment to improving quality of life and putting sustainability at the core.
• Apply an adaptive style to engagement that is culturally sensitive and appeals to the personal needs of others.
• Bring clarity and manage anxiety in others, through clear communication and inspiring
  storytelling.
• Integrate their work, helping others make the connection between their work and the bigger picture.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

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