Associate Technical Director

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**:
Due to consistent growth in our team and the demands of our strong and growing pipeline of work across highways, bridges and rail, we are searching for a Associate Technical Director - Drainage and Flooding to join our NSW Highways team. This person can be based in our Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane offices.

**Role accountabilities**:

- Lead the delivery of drainage designs on various projects from small intersection upgrades to complex billion-dollar projects
- Interfacing with clients including presenting solutions, managing deliverables and resolving issues
- Managing the workload, budget and timely delivery for hydraulics and hydrology project teams, in collaboration with Project, Design and commerical managers
- Provide technical design expertise for drainage and water quality systems, including piped networks and major transverse drainage structures
- Coordinate and verify designs with project teams working across multiple offices including our international design hubs
- Embracing a strong digital work environment and delivery culture
- Working in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the integrity of the overall design
- Providing practical solutions to challenging technical issues involving compromise and collaboration to resolve in a timely manner
- Representing Arcadis in the hydraulics and hyrology discipline area within the industry
- Driving sustainable design solutions and project outcomes
- Inspiring the team through leading by examples

**Qualifications & Experience**:
First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable civil or environmental engineer with extensive experience in drainage design for civil infrastructure projects. You will come to us with:

- Experience in providing technical leadership on major projects in the hydraulics and hydrology discipline
- Extensive experience in all facets of the project lifecycle from tendering and concept design through to construction
- Demonstrated self-management; the ability to work autonomously and take ownership of outcomes
- Proven experience working on projects with TfNSW or similar interstate authorities like TMR and VicRoads
- Proven skills with drainage software such as 12D and DRAINS
- The desire to work collaboratively in a high performing team environment
- Hydrology and hydraulic modelling experience using Tuflow will be highly regarded

**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 lobal 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