Associate Director - Asset Managment in Birmingham

Based in the UK, we have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Technical Director to join our Infrastructure Asset Management team and help achieve this vision. You will help deliver our UK asset management strategy, lead a range of asset management consultancy projects, and help develop value propositions in our rail, highways and aviation markets. You will also provide support to the wider asset management consulting and advisory business through our global business areas, Mobility, Resilience and Places. You will be a key member of the team that resides within the Mobility part of Arcadis, reporting to the Head of Infrastructure Asset Management, and play a vital role in growing the business and creating opportunity. This is a newly established team, pulling together our already strong capability in asset management into a unified offering. There will be opportunities for growth and career development for individuals with a growth mind set, and as the team develops, you may manage and direct more junior staff, acting as a technical subject matter expert in asset management.

Role accountabilities

• You will apply your asset management process skills, knowledge and insight to oversee the delivery of asset management projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.
• Supporting implementation of our UK Mobility asset management strategy and development of our Global capability, in particular in relation to application of international asset management standards (e.g. ISO55000 suite) and risk / performance based maintenance advisory.
• Client relationship and stakeholder management internally and externally, aiming to generate positive outcomes for all.
• Market engagement, thought leadership and identification of future opportunities for Arcadis to add value and grow our Asset Management team and offering.
• Leading and supporting cross business line tenders for asset management opportunities.
• Promoting and marketing all facets of the company’s services during client interfaces and generally.

Qualifications & Experience

• You will need a combination of asset management process skills, transportation infrastructure end market experience and have worked in either a transportation client or consultancy environment.
• Experience of asset management projects helping resolve strategic, tactical and / or operational challenges. Examples include development of Asset Management strategies, Plans, Asset risk assessments, RAMS, O&M planning, development of decision support tools and asset data quality assessments.
• Tender management and bid experience.
• Good understanding of risk management (e.g FMECA, Bow Tie, Fishbone), ISO55000, asset management and / or Six Sigma processes and tools.
• Rail end market experience preferred although highways and aviation considered.
• Working towards Chartered status or membership of Professional Institution (e.g IAM).

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. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.