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Associate Director- Mechanical Engineer

ANA United States
Full-time
On-site
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Description
  • Professional Growth: We value our people and invest in their development through professional memberships and global project exposure.
  • Flexible Working: Enjoy genuine flex working opportunities, including hybrid working and part-time hours.
  • Impactful Work: Transform your world and the world around you through client work, upskilling, championing equality and inclusion, and engaging in charity work.

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:

Our Buildings Design business is expanding, creating an opportunity for an experienced Associate Technical Director to join our Building Services team in either Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane. You'll focus on delivering projects across the building services and social infrastructure sector, particularly in upcoming health precincts and education design opportunities.

Role accountabilities:

  • Innovative Design Leadership: Deliver and sign-off on full mechanical design from feasibility study to practical completion for major projects, ensuring the highest level of innovation and quality.
  • Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong client relationships, influencing decisions, and promoting Arcadis.
  • Resource Allocation & Collaboration: Oversee resource allocation, collaborate with other design disciplines, and ensure the integrity of the overall design meets client expectations.
  • Industry Expertise: Understand our clients' businesses and the VIC/NSW and potentially QLD industry to consolidate company and personal credibility.
  • Problem-Solving Excellence: Lead by example in technical issues, problem-solving, and fostering a culture of innovation within the team.
  • Trusted Advisory: Provide expertise, assist in technical decision-making, and offer creative solutions to project challenges.
  • Multidisciplinary Approach: Work seamlessly with all disciplines and architects, employing a multidisciplinary design thinking mindset to ensure comprehensive and integrated project solutions.
  • Proactive Mentorship: Be proactive in mentoring the team, fostering their growth and development.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving quality of life. You are a seasoned mechanical engineering professional with more than 12 years of experience, strong industry ties and demonstrated credibility in a design consulting environment. You will come to us with:

  • Passion for Quality of Life: Share your commitment to improving quality of life through sustainable and innovative design.
  • Extensive Health Sector Experience: Significant experience in the Building Services and Infrastructure sector, particularly in healthcare projects.
  • Commercial Acumen: Strong commercial skills in contracting, invoicing, debt management, and client management.
  • Client Relationship Building: Proven ability to build and maintain enduring client relationships, resulting in repeat work.
  • Effective Coordination: Confidence in liaising with clients and contractors to achieve successful outcomes.
  • Consultative Leadership: Experience managing interdisciplinary design interfaces and projects collaboratively.
  • Chartered Status: Highly regarded and advantageous.

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 choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.

As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Arcadis Australia is an endorsed employer for all women. See our range of benefits and policies directly at WORK 180.

 

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