Technical Director EIA

Arcadis; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis seeks a Technical Director for EIA to lead the environmental assessment team, drive complex multi-disciplinary projects, and ensure excellent client delivery. You will shape project strategy, align scope with client needs, and mentor specialists within our planning and environmental practice.

Based in Edinburgh, you will engage with senior clients across sectors, stay up to date with regulatory developments, and help secure bids to grow Arcadis’ capability and reputation for sustainable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Chartered status or equivalent (ISEP or similar).
• Strong consulting skills including project management and client relationship management at senior management level.
• Extensive experience in managing business relationships at executive level.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Effective technical, project management, client relationship management and commercial skills.
• Excellent understanding and practice of Environmental, Safety and Risk Management, including Health, Safety and Wellbeing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of projects ensuring client satisfaction and effective project management.
• Accountability for project delivery, including leading and developing project teams and managing objectives.
• Build relationships with clients and key stakeholders to align objectives and working protocols.
• Foster cooperation with Arcadis teams, offices and external organisations to identify cross-sell opportunities.
• Lead identification of work-winning opportunities and high-quality bids.
• Coach and mentor specialist professionals for their development.
• Maintain understanding of Arcadis services, client business and industry for credibility.
• Stay updated with industry and regulatory developments and contribute to a strong professional profile.

Skills

Consulting skills

Client relationship management

Project management

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Communication skills

Commercial awareness

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Chartered status or equivalent (ISEP or similar)

Job description

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

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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

As a Technical Director for EIA, you will be driving the success of the environmental assessment team in Arcadis, directly supporting the wider team to win and deliver great work for our clients, to grow our capability and reputation in the industry and to build meaningful relationships within Arcadis and beyond. You will be leading complex multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring exceptional outcomes for our clients. You will be an integral part of an integrated planning and environmental team, leading projects for a range of clients with opportunities to work across multiple sectors.

Role Accountabilities

• Lead the delivery of projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and excellent communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues, ensuring relevant professional guidance, policy and practice is adhered to.
• Accountability for project delivery, including selecting, leading and developing project teams, to ensure they have the necessary skills to deliver the project, they understand and are engaged with the project strategy, brief and client requirements, and to manage their delivery of project objectives
• Build meaningful relationships with the client and all key stakeholders to develop a shared understanding of project objectives and to establish protocols for working together
• Build strong working relationships with other teams and technical disciplines, Arcadis offices and external organisations to foster cooperation and to identify cross-sell and trade-up opportunities
• Lead the identification of work-winning opportunities, including leadership of high-quality winning bids, to support the business strategy and growth of Arcadis
• Coach and mentor specialist professionals to support their professional development
• Develop and maintain an excellent understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, of the client’s business and the industry sector to facilitate personal networking and to consolidate personal and company credibility in the industry
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at an Area level (e.g. conference presentations, publications and participation in technical committees)
• Proactively understand and champion relevant Arcadis policies, procedures and processes and carry out the accountability of the role in accordance with Arcadis General Business Principles.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Chartered status or equivalent, preferably with the Institute of Sustainability & Environmental Professionals (ISEP) (or equivalent)
• Strong consulting skills including project management and client relationship management at senior management level, with a deep understanding of a key service line or sector
• Extensive experience in managing business relationships at executive level
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Effective technical, project management, client relationship management and commercial skills
• Excellent understanding and practice of Environmental, Safety and Risk Management, including of being a Health, Safety and Wellbeing leader

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 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.