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Associate Director - Civil and Structural Engineering

London, England,
Company: Mace
Category: Management Occupations
Published 2 months ago

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At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe. To learn more about our purpose, culture, and priorities, visit our . 

Within our consult business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project. 

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

  • Safety first - Going home safe and well

  • Client focus - Deliver on our promise

  • Integrity - Always do the right thing

  • Create opportunity - For our people to excel

  • Provides expert technical support to the project team, relating to the primary civil and structural works, or to whole project technical compliance. Drives the validation of project specific proposals, plans, programmes, sequences, etc. ensuring the verification of compliance with the project brief, specifications, regulatory and Mace internal requirements. Responsible for managing team/s of direct reports, and/or management of the engineering team deployed to the specific project, driving achievement of key performance indicators (KPIs) and including a continuous improvement culture.

    You’ll be responsible for:

  • Ensures the design output is accurate and checked to ensure information is clear, achievable, buildable, conforms to preferred methods, and is available to enable efficient procurement and construction of the works.

  • Develops and implements project specific dimensional control strategy, to the achievement of project specific KPIs.

  • Responsible for ensuring company & project quality requirements procedures are implemented and quality standards are achieved.

  • Proactively supports the interpretations of as-built surveys / installations and ensuring they are checked prior to construction of follow-on activities.

  • Drives the management and production of quality assurance information, ensuring aligns to quality assurance standards and consistency.

  • Provides performance management of direct/indirect reports, providing technical & career development and coaching.

  • Accountability for the technical aspects of a project including driving innovations and technical developments.

  • Delivers continuous improvements in processes through application of best practices and lessons learned. 

  • Drives transformational change.

  • Manages, influences & negotiates with key senior stakeholders (up to c-suite).

  • Works collaboratively towards the common goal of net zero carbon transition and share responsibility for the proactive identification and management of the associated carbon emissions and reductions during the delivery of work.

  • You’ll need to have:

  • Have overall responsibility for the technical/structural aspects of the project.

  • Lead the project technical decision making process.

  • Experience in developing construction methods & sequencing.

  • Ability to check design output to ensure that information is clear, complete, achievable, buildable, confirms to preferred methods and is available to enable efficient procurement and construction of the works.

  • Responsible for ensuring that company and project quality requirements and procedures are implemented.

  • Expertise in the management of Temporary Works.

  • Experienced in managing the health, safety & environmental aspects of the project (for structural elements).

  • Professionally qualified with the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers or similar professional body.

  • Provide engineering leadership to the project technical team.

  • Highly accurate with good attention to detail.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt communication style to meet the needs of different audiences.

  • Proven to build and maintain effective working relationships with project team and external stakeholders to ensure high quality service delivery.

  • Ability to manage time effectively to meet key deadlines.

  • Demonstrable experience of delivering engineering activities on building type projects of a complexity commensurate with this role.

  • Qualified and experienced in the management of Temporary Works.

  • You’ll also have:

  • Lead structural value engineering assessments.

  • Ensures that BIM is utilised to support technical management of the project.

  • Expertise in Dimensional Control, including definition & innovation.

  • Lead/input to project innovations and technical developments.

  • Develop or input to the development of proposals to reduce the carbon impact of the project.

  • Manage the production of quality assurance documentation as required to validate the project delivery and/or statutory compliance.

  • Demonstrable experience of delivering engineering roles/activities on projects of a complexity commensurate with this role.

  • Promotes continuous improvement

  • Create engineering vision and strategy for the project.

  • Ability to mentor and develop junior engineers both technically and professionally.

  • Ability to take on package management responsibilities for structural packages where required.

  • Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation. 

    We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role. 

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