The Technical Director is a senior technical leader within AECOM EC India, responsible for ensuring delivery excellence and technical assurance across all allocated projects within the discipline. Acting as technical lead on complex assignments, the TD ensures compliance with quality standards and proactively resolves technical challenges before they escalate.Reporting to the Business Line Director and working in close collaboration with the Lead Technical Director, the TD translates global discipline strategies into project-level execution, conducting technical reviews and verifying high-risk deliverables. The Technical Director may be appointed as the global coordinator, responsible for integrating delivery approaches, providing a unified technical direction, and ensuring consistency of service across locations. In this capacity, the TD also plays a visible role in promoting the service line globally and contributing to pipeline development by supporting bids, pursuits, and market positioning efforts.The Technical Director also plays a key role in maintaining global technical standards within their centre, ensuring teams meet enterprise-wide expectations and align with DCS equivalence. They work closely with the Lead Technical Director to identify training priorities, oversee upskilling, and achieve consistent technical capability across regions. The TD also contributes actively to the discipline’s Technical Practice Network (TPN), potentially leading a Technical Practice Group (TPG), sharing innovations, lessons learned, and best practices, and supporting the adoption of new tools and methodologies.Beyond project delivery, the Technical Director engages with regional clients as a trusted technical advisor, supports proposals and pursuits with specialist input, and plays a vital role in capability development. They mentor engineers and technical specialists, promote professional accreditation, and help build the future pipeline of technical leaders within EC India The responsibilities of this role include: <ul><li>Act as technical lead for complex projects, ensuring compliance with discipline standards, client requirements, and regulatory frameworks.</li><li>Conduct technical reviews and serve as Lead Verifier on major deliverables.</li><li>Take ownership of quality processes within allocated projects, ensuring proactive resolution of issues.</li><li>Apply technical assurance strategies defined by the Lead Technical Director.</li><li>Actively contribute to the global discipline networks, supporting alignment with global best practices.Share lessons learned and innovations and potentially lead a Technical Practice Group (TPG).</li><li>Support the adoption of improved methodologies, tools, and processes that strengthen delivery quality.</li><li>Provide discipline-specific technical expertise in regional client interactions.</li><li>Contribute technical input into proposals, tenders, and pursuit strategies.Act as a trusted advisor to build long-term client confidence in EC’s technical capabilities.</li><li>Mentor engineers and technical specialists, supporting structured training and development initiatives.</li><li>Ensure all staff within the discipline maintain a level of technical competence aligned with global standards. Identify skill gaps and coordinate the delivery of appropriate training and upskilling initiatives in collaboration with the Lead Technical Director. Participate in periodic assessments to demonstrate equivalence in technical capability across EC.</li><li>Promote professional accreditation and ongoing technical skill advancement.</li><li>Support succession planning by helping identify and develop future technical leaders within the EC India.</li></ul> What we are looking forAn individual with 20+ years in the industry with deep expertise in MEP design(predominant experience in HVAC design is valuable).Must be a Masters in mechanical engineering from Tier 1 institutions of India or international.UK Chartership in IMechE or CIBSE or PE license from the US is highly valued.Must demonstrate experience in technical design and solving complex engineering problems.Experience in data centres, healthcare will be in an added advantage.

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Technical Director - MEP (Buildings & places)

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