Associate Director - Public Health in London

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. We foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, constantly asking ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

Each role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. We believe building engineering is more than systems and structures; it’s about powering progress and enabling innovation. As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll help design the critical infrastructure that supports the digital age and shapes the spaces where people work, connect, and thrive.

Your work will directly support technological advancement, sustainability, and human experience. We bring together mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil engineering experts to solve complex design challenges with precision, creativity, and collaboration. Whether you’re optimizing energy efficiency, integrating resilient systems, or engineering the backbone of next-generation facilities, your contributions will help define the future of the built environment.

This isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to lead innovation, engineer impact, and build a legacy of excellence.

About the Role

As an Associate Public Health Director, you will play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional public health engineering solutions across high-profile projects. This is more than a technical role; it’s an opportunity to influence strategy, mentor talented engineers, strengthen client relationships, and help drive the future direction of our public health offering.

About You

We are seeking someone who is personable, a self-starter with the ability to project a positive ‘can do’ professional attitude at all times, maintaining good working relationships. Someone who enjoys working collaboratively across disciplines, establishing excellent rapport within the team, business, and with clients, and can work under pressure, handle a varied workload, and keep to tight deadlines while maintaining the highest level of technical excellence.

If you’re ready to step into a leadership position where your expertise, commercial insight, and vision will truly make an impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage and supervise projects, establish client brief, technical requirements, scope of works, cost plans and agree deliverables, i.e. report, specifications, and drawings scope for all projects with your Group Leader.
• Agree level of service and project design duties with your Group Leader and project managers for each project, understand relationship with fee.
• Assist Group Leader with monitoring engineering/CAD resource requirement for each project within your control.
• Carry out engineering concept design to detailed design, tender and contract on-site supervision, to completion, ensuring projects are undertaken in accordance with design briefs and that completion deadlines are achieved.
• Liaise with the design team to produce co-ordinated designs that are technically compliant, to a consistent quality and standard.
• Provide positive contribution to design/project meetings.
• Maintain regular ‘in house’ design reviews and checks.
• Maintain excellent client and design team relationships to achieve high levels of satisfaction and repeat business.
• Pursue new business opportunities where appropriate with existing and new clients.
• Assist Group Leader with identifying and implementing your personal training/CPD.

Requirements

• Educational qualifications to a degree level or equivalent are desired.
• Minimum 7 years industry experience in designing and managing projects.
• Experience in the Data Centre industry is highly desirable.
• Experience in the same or similar position is desired.
• Skills in project managing ongoing jobs with limited supervision are desirable.
• Member of an associated professional institute.
• Competency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint.

At HDR, we are committed to the principles of employment equity. We are an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants, regardless of criminal histories, arrest and conviction records.

Ready to learn more? Let’s work together to make great things possible. We design solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. We’re always looking for great talent to join our global teams.