Associate Director - Energy (Experience in Land Development Projects)

Team Management

• Manages the energy team within utilities department, coordinating activities of the engineers and technicians.
• The energy team covers typical power infrastructure work, instrumentation and control for process mechanical, extra low voltage design covering security, ITS, ICT etc.
• Responsibility for working with the teams leads and principals in managing the energy team.
• Ensure effective communication of technical and business issues to all staff reporting to you, and the wider team.
• Accountable for the performance of the energy discipline department and adherence to approved project budgets.
• Fully accountable for the team's utilisation targets.
• Performs various management, leadership, and people accountability responsibilities for the energy team.
• Supports business change management initiatives (i.e., quality management, BIM, project excellence) mandated by senior leadership.
• Recruits, trains, mentors, and evaluates the staff within the department.

Technical Delivery Management

• Responsible for independently resolving all technical and managerial matters about the engineering issues within the energy department.
• Must have solid understanding of power infrastructure networks (HV/MV/LV), Controls and instrumentation as well as Extra low voltage.
• Extensive experience of working on land development projects covering master planning stages to detailed design.
• Identifies trends, issues, and opportunities for their area of the business, industry, service line or process.
• Conducts peer reviews, lead verifications and shares knowledge through internal technical presentations and standards development.
• Provide high level technical expertise in terms of quantity, quality, and cost to assess whether targets have been achieved and determine where improvements and efficiencies can be achieved.
• Can perform technical quality reviews including documentation in project record in accordance with policies and procedures and approves and signs off on work.
• Serves as Lead Verifier (where required), confirming that the technical approach satisfies the client scope of services and expectations. Approves and signs off work.
• Technical Coordination with Authorities for approvals of projects.
• Leading digital transformation strategy and implementation and embracing the change within the Discipline.
• Plans and develops engineering tasks concerned with unique or controversial problems. This involves exploration of a subject area, the definition of scope and selection of problems for investigation and development of novel concepts and approaches.
• Excellent presentation and report writing skills. Must have experience of delivering presentations to senior personnel.

Project Management

• Act as project manager on large and/or complex projects.
• Drives a culture of financial responsibility ensuring maximum profitability.
• Has solid understanding of project delivery requirements and is well versed with project management techniques.
• Understand and apply the principles of risk and value management and use risk and value-based thinking to make project level decisions.

Business Development

• Actively involved with clients and leads business development initiatives, participating in the preparation of major bids and proposals on the commercial and technical side.
• Actively involved with clients and supports business development initiatives.
• Externally recognised as a leader in one or more elements of technical discipline.
• Applies acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges and develops the technical strategy for proposals within the area of expertise.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum 17 years’ experience, with at least 10 years being in large international engineering consultancy and 5 years in technical leadership role.