Associate Technical Director - Energy Transition

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

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

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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:

We are looking for an experienced Associate Technical Director to join our growing Energy Transition team, working with a range of clients ranging from those in the public sector to large portfolio investors. This role will work closely with a range of partners including developers, building managers, fund managers and organisational sustainability leads looking to improve the sustainable performance of their buildings, estates and portfolios. We are looking for practical experience to technically support clients on their Net Zero Carbon journey and leadership skills to support our team’s growth and development.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

You will play an integral role in supporting clients in technical strategic decision making whilst developing work and delivering against our client ambitions. Key requirements of the role will involve:

• Technical leadership: In asset decarbonisation, net zero audits, building modelling (thermal modelling), renewable assessments, heat decarbonisation, energy storage. Ensure you and the team stay abreast of developments technology and tools to deliver our services and support the development of innovation and tools to improve our efficiency of delivery and exploit new market opportunities.
• Project Delivery: Take accountability of range of project sizes and utilisation of team to deliver taking responsibility for resourcing, skills and quality.
• Business Growth and Opportunity Development: Support the growth of the team through development of market opportunities. Support Energy Transition Service Line lead with development of growth strategy, internal and external marketing, account and client plans, client engagement and the development
• Business Development: Development, input and leadership of specific pursuits including complex and multi-disciplinary bids.
• Team leadership and management: Support the mentoring, upskilling and training of other team member across both technical and consultancy delivery skills
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Technical Experience: Demonstrable leadership experience of technical delivery of a range of asset decarbonisation, renewable energy, heat decarbonisation, building thermal energy modelling, EPC, MEES, renewable energy technologies and software, due diligence, heat networks and energy Masterplanning and systems, industrial heat decarbonisation, net zero and organisational change
• Commercial Delivery Advice: Experience of financial modelling, commercial delivery model advice, business case and options development
• Project and Programme Management: Experience of delivering and number of large and teams projects concurrently taking account of resourcing, quality and finance
• Business Development and Marketing: Experience of developing market growth strategies, client engagement and client growth strategies, development of internal and external client networks, and co-ordination of complex pursuits and bids
• People Development: Experience of developing and growing teams, supporting individuals with skill development and career progression
• Team Growth and Development: Support on the strategic thinking and growth plans for asset decarbonisation, renewable energy and wider Energy Transition growth
  
  

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.