Job Title: Technical Director
Location: Cardiff
*Although the position will be based in our Cardiff office, they will also consider remote working arrangements in other locations, particularly where there are business development benefits.
Salary: £50-60k (experience dependant)
Employment type: Permanent / Full-time
Our client:
Our client has distinctive opportunity for an ambitious and collaborative individual to develop and progress their career as Technical Director to lead business development and manage environmental impact assessments.
This would be ideal for experienced candidates that enjoy technically leading and managing environmental water and peat management assessments and are now looking to step their career up a level.
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. The successful candidate will ideally be chartered with CIWEM, IEMA or ICE.
Technical Objectives:
* 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.
* Typical outputs for our current EIA work include:
* hydrology, hydrogeology and geology EIA chapters,
* private water supply risk assessments,
* groundwater dependent terrestrial ecosystem assessments, * surface water management plans,
* pollution prevention and incident plans,
* water quality modelling,
* peat surveys,
* peat management plans,
* peat landslide risk assessments,
* carbon balance assessments,
* Water Framework Directive assessments,
* geomorphological assessments,
* associated fieldwork and data collection.
* 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:
* peat management
* water quality,
* WFD assessment,
* aquatic ecology,
* geomorphology,
* contaminated land,
* river restoration.
* 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.
* Identify, agree and implement recruitment requirements with the Head of Consultancy.
Project Management & Work Winning Objectives:
* 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 a clear understanding of our strategic and business needs and priorities and contribute
to the formulation of these for your consultancy activities.
* Develop and implement a marketing plan to grow your sector of the business and monitor against
agreed, realistic growth targets linked to bonus.
Benefits:
* 40.5 day holiday allowance. Staff may ‘buy or sell’ additional annual leave
at the start of each year.
* As an employee-owned trust, they provide tax-free bonuses to all staff and operate a separate
performance-related bonus scheme. Distribution of bonus is dependent on achieving a minimum
profit level.
* They provide a 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%.
* They are part of the Cycle to Work scheme.
* They provide a Medicash 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.
* They operate a flexible working hours system.
* They have a formal appraisal system matched by personal development plans and each member
of staff has access to 5 days every year for targeted training and professional development.
* They pay for professional membership of the appropriate body.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
