Job Description

Job Title Head of Civils

Description

As the leading provider of architectural and engineering design services to the built environment, Atkins is committed to design excellence in the delivery of first-class solutions which combine, innovation, imagination and best practice.

Discipline Head Civil Engineering will have an overarching responsibility of developing and nurturing technical excellence within the Civil Engineering discipline groups across all Business verticals. In aggregation, this requires taking accountability of discipline-based staff development and deployment on projects, which will ensure -

.Trained and competent resource to be available within the Civil Engineering discipline in line with project or pipeline requirements.
.Better technical assurance for Civil Engineering aspects of project delivery.

Accountable for the operations of the Civil Engineering teams:
Recruitment and retention of staff to planned headcount, and identification, retention and development of key talent within the Civil Engineering discipline.

Deployment of competent resource on to projects
Utilization of staff, including utilization during times of lower workload (bench management) on discipline activities like technical training, up-skilling, cross-skilling
Preparing and implementing discipline-based training plans, which will also encourage cross-skilling of staff across different market domains.
Promote and encourage professional development of staff with a target to have all senior staff professionally qualified.
Aim to have junior staff cross-skilled across different market domains to improve utilization on projects.
Develop and implement a technical competency framework which will enable appropriately qualified staff being deployed on projects.
Lead on adoption of digital technology and the Global Design Framework (GDF).
Pro-actively identify high potential staff within the discipline and develop, retain and mentor the high potential staff.
Encourage diversity
Ensure lessons learnt are recorded and knowledge is appropriately stored to be easily accessible and re-used.
The discipline head will also be expected to promote and strengthen technical career paths.
Liaise with workshare and business RMS champions to review pipeline and plan for resources accordingly.
Conducting staff appraisals and managing performance of direct reportees and contribute as a co-planner to appraisals of discipline leads in other business verticals.
Contribute to implementing action plans coming out of VOX survey or other employee engagement initiatives.
Contribute to implementing employee reward and recognition schemes across Civil Engineering disciplines in all business verticals.
Staff engagement, integration and extra-curricular activities, Collaborate Closely with the Project Teams to make sure right resources are deployed on projects and project quality requirements are met.
Requirements:

Up to 20 years post graduate experience primarily in a Consultancy/Design organization within the domain of Civil Engineering discipline.
Broad experience and understanding of all Civil Engineering disciplines like Highways, permanent way, water, ground engineering, GIS and transport planning.
Membership of a Professional body like ICE or similar.
A good understanding of how information is developed and managed in a design life-cycle and awareness of digital tools and applications available in the information management domain.
Understanding and/or awareness of International Design Standards like British / European, ME, North American and Atkins standards.
Proven ability to manage and deliver technical excellence.
Excellent team management, leadership and communication skills.
Commercial awareness and knowledge of the Commercial Systems
In depth knowledge of the Quality systems and protocols
Technical Team Leader/Specialist with an increasing reputation internally and externally within their field and responsible for managing a team of engineers.
Experience in delivering projects via an outsourcing centre.
A passion for staff development and mentoring including organising learning and development activities and training programmes, mentoring staff for professional qualifications etc.
Behaviours:

Participates in all aspects of workload delivery, regardless of task setting an example of effective team working
Collaborative and able to work across regional and business boundaries integrates with other Design Groups and disciplines
Ability to nurture and develop technical, commercial and operational excellence in individuals and across the team
Commitment to maximizing project delivery including driving technical excellence through training and mentoring
Customer focused, passionate about exceeding the requirements of internal and external stakeholders
Good communication skills, ability to deal with staff at all levels and manage stakeholders at all levels in the client organizations.
Demonstrate excellent planning and time management skills.
Adaptive influencing skills, demonstrating tact, diplomacy, persuasion and the courage to challenge.
Willingness to represent the discipline in inter-department meetings and workshops.

We provide a full range of design, engineering and project management services for buildings, transportation and other infrastructure programmes.
Atkins in the Middle East now employs around 2,000 staff serving Gulf clients across all market sectors from offices in Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Kuwait City, Manama, Muscat, Riyadh, and Sharjah.
Rewards & Benefits
We offer an excellent package which includes:
.A competitive salary
.Transportation allowance
.Medical and life insurance cover
.22 calendar days annual leave
.Medical and life insurance cover
.Company gratuity scheme
.Discretionary bonus scheme
.Annual flight allowance to point of origin

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