My Client is recruiting for a Technical Director - Clean Water Process Engineering. The Design & Advanced Technology (D&AT) Practice is seeking a Technical Director for Clean Water Process to join our team in the UK. We specialise in all aspects of process engineering within the Water Sector, including water, waste water and bioresources in the UK and internationally. Process Engineering project opportunities also stretch to other sectors such as nuclear and defence. We are committed to providing industry leading engineering solutions from feasibility to process commissioning, with value added through client side support and construction phases.
As a key member of our technical leadership team, you will shape and deliver transformational programmes of critical UK infrastructure for our Water market clients such as Thames Water, Anglian Water, Environment Agency, Welsh Water, United Utilities and Scottish Water. You will drive results by contributing to functional strategy, influencing senior stakeholders and leading multidisciplinary project teams.
Being a Technical Director with us involves UK wide travel. We offer hybrid working: three days per week in office and one day remote. The position can be based at any main location - Surrey, London, Bristol, Exeter, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle or Glasgow - or at other offices such as Peterborough, Cambridge, Cardiff, Swansea, Derby, Leeds, Belfast or Edinburgh, with additional travel as required.
Responsibilities
- Provide Technical Leadership within the discipline for the national D&AT practice.
- Influence D&AT Practice wide initiatives and recommend best practices to improve internal processes and services.
- Serve as a recognised expert and technical authority in Clean Water Process Engineering across the D&AT Practice and wider business.
- Provide visible representation of your and the company's Clean Water Process Engineering technical expertise to current and prospective clients.
- Collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, including internal and external clients, operational staff, project teams, or external stakeholders.
- Recommend and drive improvements to processes, services, and technical practices while ensuring robust engineering governance is consistently upheld.
- Oversee technical input into bid proposals, defining the delivery strategy and working with cross functional teams to prepare high quality, compliant, competitive submissions.
- Proactively identify opportunities for cross selling and business growth, using commercial insight to strengthen and expand client relationships and sell our value proposition.
- Grow, develop, and manage the Clean Water Process engineering capability within the national practice, supporting talent development and succession planning.
- Anticipate emerging business, regulatory, and technology challenges, identifying risks and opportunities early and advising senior leadership.
- Provide strategic oversight across multiple complex, multidisciplinary projects, ensuring technical excellence, safe delivery and alignment with client and practice objectives.
- Work independently even in the most challenging situations; act as the point of escalation for the most complex technical matters and exercise personal judgement to find solutions.
Qualifications
- A degree in Chemical Engineering or equivalent (e.g., Environmental, Water Engineering).
- Chartered Engineer (preferably IChemE or CIWEM).
- Extensive experience in progressively senior technical roles, including significant leadership of complex, high risk, cross disciplinary projects and programmes.
- Nationally or internationally recognised subject matter expertise in clean water treatment process and principles - conventional and advanced treatment technologies; drinking water expertise essential.
- Experience in the UK Water market essential.
- Expert knowledge of current design codes and standards as well as industry best practices including CDM Regulations.
- Extensive experience designing and delivering projects with adherence to UK safety and environmental regulations, process safety techniques (e.g., HAZOP), knowledge of capital and operational costs, risk assessments and whole life carbon assessments.
- Commercially astute, with experience shaping winning proposals and driving practice and business growth.
- Champion continuous improvement, driving enhancements to processes, services, technical standards and innovation across the practice.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas with clarity, anticipate challenges, and persuade senior stakeholders to adopt new perspectives, navigating diverse, international and cross cultural delivery.
- Comprehensive knowledge in leading treatment process design and integrating elements as part of an existing or new treatment process, with experience across all design phases including construction.
- Experience identifying and promoting innovative solutions and challenging the status quo.