At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.
One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.
Role description:
To provide professional leadership in all aspects of Transmission and Distribution Engineering at a senior management level, establishing and consolidating relationships with clients, taking ownership for the delivery of the region’s technical capability, supporting the delivery of projects or specialised components of projects and Detailed Engineering Frameworks for Substations and Renewables Projects.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead the technical delivery of complex Transmission and Distribution Substation Detailed Design projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues
• Engage with and champions the involvement and inclusion of Arcadis Global Design resources, facilitating two way feedback on the performance of project teams using Arcadis Global Design resources
• Provide technical leadership at a subject level
• Evaluate technical competence of staff proposed for projects and identify specific training and mentoring needs
• Take technical line management responsibility for the development and performance management of team members to support the delivery of Arcadis’ business
• Supports recruitment process and are personally involved in the selection process of Principal Engineers and Associate Technical Directors
• Promote effective and efficient bid management
• Provide input into specific technical aspects of individual bids to support the production of high quality winning pursuits

Qualifications & Experience:

• Sound knowledge of detailed Engineering Design requirements for Substation and Renewables Projects, from feasibility through stage by stage Valid for Construction phases and into final records input to Health and Safety files across the Plant, Protection and Control, Civil and Circuits (Cable and Overhead Line) disciplines.
• Ability to use a sound evidence-based approach to problem solving and be able to contribute to continuous improvement
• Can maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach in enabling the introduction and exploitation of new and advancing technology
• Can engage in the creative and innovative development of engineering technology and continuous improvement systems
• Manage teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs
• Can identify the limits of both their personal knowledge and skills the limits of their team’s skill and knowledge
• Exercise sound holistic independent judgement and take responsibility.
• Lead continuous improvement in “Safe by Design”
• Sound knowledge of legislation, hazards and safe systems of work
• Have a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Achieved Chartered or Incorporated Engineer professional status, or equivalent
• Previous relevant experience including leadership of the development and implementation of engineering solutions

Why Become an Arcadian?
Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.
We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.
As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.
To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.
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 we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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• Lead the technical delivery of complex Transmission and Distribution Substation Detailed Design projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues
• Engage with and champions the involvement and inclusion of Arcadis Global Design resources, facilitating two way feedback on the performance of project teams using Arcadis Global Design resources
• Provide technical leadership at a subject level
• Evaluate technical competence of staff proposed for projects and identify specific training and mentoring needs
• Take technical line management responsibility for the development and performance management of team members to support the delivery of Arcadis’ business
• Supports recruitment process and are personally involved in the selection process of Principal Engineers and Associate Technical Directors
• Promote effective and efficient bid management
• Provide input into specific technical aspects of individual bids to support the production of high quality winning pursuit