Director (Tunnels)
London, Derby, York, Glasgow
Permanent
Office/Home Hybrid Working
Do you have industry leadership experience in Tunnels and Underground Structures? Can you inspire the civil engineers of the future?Do you want to impact the strategy for sustainable infrastructure? Then, join us to shape a sustainable and liveable world.
Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
We are looking for a senior technical leader to join us in COWI in the UK. Working on a variety of road, rail, water & utility infrastructure projects, you’ll provide strategic technical leadership to our tunnels, heavy civils and underground structures engineers.
Your key responsibilities will be:
·Senior technical leadership of ourestablished team of over 70 civil and structural design engineers across the UK and Ireland.
·Working closely with our Senior Technical Leadership from other disciplines, particularly our ground engineering leaders.
·Maximising business development opportunities through excellence in delivery and working with the leadership team to set the direction for the discipline.
·Technical oversight and direction to UK and international tunnel and underground structures projects. Working across multiple projects to guide our technical leaders, to promote innovation, to maintain best practice, and to continue COWI's legacy of solving complex engineering problemsin tunnelling and heavy civils.
·Overseeing the development of conceptual designs and setting the direction of the project, working with clients and stakeholders to identify solutions to complex challenges.
·Working alongside our widerleadershipteam to developstrategies around training and development of staff, links with industrial bodies, and thought leadership.
·Approval of complex designs, assessments and calculations in accordance with quality procedures, current industry guidance and codes of practice to achieve safety by design.
·Introduction of innovative solutions to meet carbon reduction goals, and digital design solutions.
·Supervising coordination of work undertaken by external sub-contractors and design checkers.
·Contribution to bids and tenders.
·Attending client meetings and building relationships with clients and other stakeholders.
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
Like us, you believe that leadership success comes from setting a clear and meaningful direction for the business. As a technical leader you contribute to this direction, alongside senior project and people leaders. You lead by example in delivering excellence and building an open and safe culture to nurture our high-performing teams.
On top of that, you’ll have:
·Achieved Chartered Engineer or equivalent status with a relevant Institution (e.g. MICE or MIStructE or similar international institution), and have achieved, or be working towards, Fellowship.
·Demonstrable relevant UK and/or international civil engineering design and leadership experience, with experience in below ground structures and tunnelling.
·A high level of technical skills, knowledge and experience of relevant industry standards, best practice and current technical strategy and developments.
·A sound understanding and experience in the construction of underground structures and tunnelling techniques to drive safe, economically buildable designs.
·Good communication skills.