Technical Director - Civil Infrastructure

Strata Consulting; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid / Flexible working

Car allowance

Bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Networking events/opportunities

Job summary

Strata Consulting's Cambridge office is seeking a highly skilled Technical Director to provide strategic leadership and drive business growth. The role emphasizes client-facing activities and technical excellence over daily management, with a focus on expanding the team and revenue across public and private sectors.

You will lead across public/private land promoters, house builders, developers, and authorities, shaping innovations, coordinating with the Technical Leadership Group, and mentoring

Qualifications

• Degree in civil engineering required.
• Chartered status or working towards chartership.
• Broad civil design experience across developments.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership abilities.
• Commercial and strategic track record in delivering new business.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship skills.
• Ability to lead change and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction and visible leadership.
• Coordinate across Development discipline and share intelligence.
• Engage with the Technical Leadership Group to promote innovation.
• Win work from key accounts and grow the order book.
• Lead bids and ensure value in submissions; support H&S and Corporate Responsibility.
• Mentor colleagues on succession planning and developing talent.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Business development

Communication

Mentoring

Change management

Education

Civil engineering degree

Job description

What have an opening for a highly skilled Technical Director to join our clients expanding Cambridge office.

This senior position will be very much centred on client facing activities, technical leadership and business growth, rather than day-to-day operational management and will play an integral part in supporting the initiative to diversify our team, both in staff numbers and revenue.

The Development Team is a well-established and high performing discipline within the Planning and Development business unit which includes over 500 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation and handover.

You can expect to work across both the public/private sector land promoters and house builders, developers, signature architects, Government, and local authorities.

What's on offer

• Hybrid / Flexible working
• Car allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Networking events/opportunities

The role

• Providing strategic direction and highly visible leadership.
• Working in partnership with other colleagues to ensure coordination across the Development discipline and sharing of market intelligence, best practice and innovation
• Engaging with the Technical Leadership Group (TLG) to promote technical innovation, best practice and technological advancements for infrastructure development for major projects.
• Winning work from key accounts and align the business to secure major opportunities and an increasing order book.
• Leading and support bids by contributing reviewing and authorising submissions and by demonstrating added value both commercially and technically.
• Supporting all aspects associated with H&S / Corporate Responsibility and ensure the team complies with SHEQ.
• Mentoring of selected colleagues on the Succession Planning Schedule, Emerging Talent schedule.

What you need to succeed

• Degree level qualification in civil engineering
• Chartered status or working towards chartership
• A broad range of project experience across civil design for developments.
• Inter-personal skills with good leadership and management abilities.
• Commercial and strategic capability with a demonstrable track record in having identified and subsequently delivered new business opportunities.
• Expert stakeholder management and related relationship and team management skills.
• Demonstrate ability to improve, motivate and encourage others within the workplace, lead and implement change programmes, inspiring colleagues and drive an innovative and supportive culture.
• Forward thinking, capable of visualising and planning for the longer term.
• A broad range of project experience, both within Discipline and multi-disciplinary.
• Demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively, use own knowledge to support and coach others as required.
• Actively champion sharing knowledge, ideas and intelligence.
• Able to establish, build, sustain and share, professional relationships with relevant groups both inside and outside the organisation.
• Able to reason logically and apply a systematic process to finding solutions, proactive in responding to problems, able to apply sound logic in situations of ambiguity and problem-solving methodologies across a range of circumstances.