Associate Technical Director or Technical Director

Highly visible, key leadership role within a large national facades team
- Genuine flexible working culture including work from home and part time hours
- Opportunity to develop others, impart knowledge and contribute to bids and tenders

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**:
This is a unique opportunity to join the largest team of consulting Façade Engineers in Sydney and become part of the core leadership team during an exciting time of cultural change and growth. You will guide, manage, grow and contribute to our pipeline of projects across our Buildings sector both locally and interstate.

**Role accountabilities**:

- Performing investigation, analysis and design activities in line with client and Arcadis specifications, national standards and codes of practice;
- Using your knowledge of client business and market to provide input and a competitive focus during the tender process;
- Contributing to the resolution of technical issues on projects and providing technical guidance to other team members;
- Champion innovation in technical issues, problem solving and the culture of the team;
- Being a trusted advisor to clients and stakeholders, providing expertise, assisting through technical decision-making, and optioneering with project changes; and
- Building effective and enduring relationships with other teams and technical disciplines, Arcadis offices and external organisations to foster co-operation and maximise cross-sell and trade-up opportunities.

**Qualifications & Experience**:
First and foremost you share our passion for improving quality of life. You are a seasoned leader in your field with credible industry ties and you are experienced in diagnostics and remediation on façade systems to Australian (preferable), US, and UK standards. You will come to us with some of the following skills:

- Broad experience in typical façade procurement approaches in Australia and with design and documentation to suit the procurement approaches;
- A collaborative, enthusiastic leadership style - you create and nurture highly engaged teams and knowledge share with engineers at all levels;
- Skilled in analysis using structural design packages;
- Knowledgeable in structural aspects of façade design; material selection; durability; and weather-proofing design philosophy;
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, including report preparation; and
- You are a practicing engineer with Chartered status.

**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