Associate Technical Director - Electrical

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As an Electrical Associate Technical Director, you will provide technical leadership, design assurance, and subject matter expertise across complex building services projects. You will lead and mentor project teams, influence critical design decisions, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, efficient, and technically robust engineering solutions.
In this role, you will support project delivery excellence through rigorous design reviews, quality assurance, and the development of technical capabilities within the Global Excellence Centre (GEC). You will collaborate closely with in-country teams and global delivery partners to achieve coordinated, efficient, and high-quality project outcomes while promoting innovation, standardization, and continuous improvement across the business.

Role accountabilities:

You will also undertake a range of leadership and "hat role" responsibilities, including acting as a key liaison with in-country counterparts and sector or regional leaders, supporting business priorities, driving technical initiatives, and contributing to strategic growth and operational excellence within your assigned sector or region. You will be responsible for, but not limited to, the following:

• Provide technical leadership in the design of electrical building services systems, including lighting, power distribution, fire detection, Earthing and Lightning protection, CCTV, security and other low-voltage systems.
• Lead the preparation and review of comprehensive electrical engineering deliverables across project phases, including calculations, specifications, reports, presentations, schematic designs, 3D models and working drawings & sketches.
• Verify, challenge and assure design solutions to ensure they are safe, coordinated, technically robust, commercially aware and aligned with client, project, statutory and scope requirements.
• Provide direction and guidance to colleagues managing large, complex or multidisciplinary projects, supporting effective delivery, decision-making and technical quality.
• Lead discipline-level project delivery by ensuring clear scope agreements, budgets, resource plans, schedules and multidisciplinary coordination are in place.
• Review team performance and training plans, implement practical action plans and improve overall delivery efficiency.
• Build strong partnering relationships with regional business areas to resolve delivery challenges, identify business opportunities, establish delivery protocols and improve GEC services.
• Apply a broad understanding of business and financial metrics to drive innovation, improve team contribution and support the successful operation of the business.
• Drive continuous improvement in design delivery by promoting standardization, automation, digital tools and consistent ways of working that improve quality, efficiency and team performance.
• Contribute to technical capability development by sharing knowledge, mentoring colleagues and strengthening discipline expertise.
• Embed sustainability, safety-in-design, accessibility, maintainability, coordination, buildability and emerging technologies into project delivery.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline.
• 15-20 years of experience in Electrical Building Services Engineering, with a proven track record in the delivery of complex building projects within a consulting environment.
• Strong experience in Data Centers, Industrial, Semiconductor, and Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences projects, with Data Center experience being highly preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise in the design, review, and delivery of electrical systems including power distribution, lighting, earthing and lightning protection, fire detection and alarm, security, CCTV, and other low-voltage systems.
• Proven technical leadership experience in multidisciplinary projects, including design assurance, quality reviews, technical governance, and stakeholder management.
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams, with direct people management responsibility while supporting larger project and discipline teams.
• Ability to effectively balance people leadership (50%) and technical project delivery (50%), ensuring both team performance and project excellence.
• Strong experience in coaching, mentoring, performance management, succession planning, and capability development to build high-performing technical teams.
• Demonstrated commercial awareness with experience in resource planning, project budgeting, utilization management, and delivery performance oversight.
• International project delivery experience, or extensive collaboration with global teams and stakeholders, is preferred.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.