Technical Director

Are you an established technical director seeking a new challenge? Our client is seeking an experienced candidate to lead business development and manage environmental impact assessments. This would be ideal for a candidate that enjoys technically leading and managing environmental water and peat management assessments and is now looking to step their career up a level. This is an exciting opportunity that would lead to enhanced discretionary bonus and a position as a company Director.

Our client provides hydrology, water resources and peat management EIA chapters for a diverse range of nationally significant renewable energy infrastructure projects, including onshore wind and solar, and transport infrastructure projects. This is a key technical and business development role within a small and successful SME, working closely with the company Directors to grow the business. Successful performance in this role would lead to enhanced discretionary bonus and a position as a company Director.

The successful candidate will ideally be chartered with CIWEM, IEMA or ICE. Although the position will be based in our client's Cardiff office, our client is open to considering remote working arrangements in other locations, particularly where there are business development benefits.

Your role:

• Undertake the Project Executive role for the management of water environmental assessments for large infrastructure projects including wind farms, solar farms, hydropower, transport infrastructure and development sites. In this role, you will support the Project Manager and be responsible for technical oversight and guidance, review of outputs, implementation of quality, health and safety and contractual processes.
• Ideally, you will have particular expertise in the assessment of the impacts of development on hydrological features, peatland habitats and geomorphology.
• Develop the technical capability of staff in at least one of the following technical areas according to your experience.
• Mentor junior staff towards chartership with CIWEM, IEMA or ICE.
• Undertake line management responsibility for staff, including undertaking annual reviews and setting of personal development and performance objectives.
• Create a good working rapport with other team members, communicating effectively internally and externally to achieve the best possible outcomes.
• Represent the company convincingly and with technical authority at a senior level.
• Be fully conversant with the regulatory framework that underpins your work and influence the implementation of the regulatory framework in your area.
• Manage your workload and those of your team, usually balancing the requirements of up to 10 projects simultaneously, to achieve the required quality to budget and programme.
• Undertake the Project Executive role for projects up to £100k in value.
• Bid leader for proposals up to £100k in value.
• Develop and implement a marketing plan to grow your sector of the business and monitor against agreed, realistic growth targets linked to bonus.

In return our client offers:

• A generous 40.5 day holiday allowance.
• Tax-free bonuses to all staff and operate a separate performance-related bonus scheme.
• Company pension scheme, with employer matched contributions of 5% of salary. This increases by 1% each year following 5 years' service, to a maximum of 10%.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Health plan offering cashback on your everyday healthcare treatments, checks and therapies; access to a virtual GP and face-to-face counselling.
• Staff are encouraged to take an annual 'Environment Day' to support environmental or educational volunteering projects.
• Flexible working hours system.
• Support for professional membership of the appropriate body.