Vice President - Design - Precast Technology

This role presents an exceptional opportunity to work within an internationally renowned organization delivering projects across a range of sectors and in all parts of the world. The successful candidate will make a major contribution to high profile and large scale multidisciplinary projects that are changing the way we live today.

Key Responsibilities:

- Ensuring the provision of efficient, high quality, structural engineering design on Precast Technology.

- Supporting single and multidisciplinary project teams

- Delivering multiple projects or parts of larger projects to completion, within budget and to programme

- Working closely with clients and architects to produce creative designs to meet client aspirations

- Initiating, promoting, and driving forward programmes of continuous improvement for our structural engineering teams

- Assisting in managing the broader team through mentoring, training, and conducting annual appraisals

- Contributing to other technical and operational duties as required by the team

Leadership & Accountability:

- Build cohesive teams of people within the organization, valuing team spirit

- Share achievements with the team such that each team member feels valuable and appreciated

- Take ownership for policy, regulation and compliance in all relevant areas

- Go getter attitude, Collaborative, Agile, Responsive, Persuasive

People Development:

- Create an atmosphere that promotes moral, ethical and legal business conduct and ensures team is meeting customer needs and contractual obligations.

- Develop and Implement an effective coaching plan with the individual/team

- Effectively guiding the performance and career development of the people

- Accountable for performance and personal development of the team.

- Set high expectations for self and others and clearly communicate them. Challenges self and others to achieve at high levels.

- Effectively manage the biannual performance review process, providing honest and encouraging feedback regarding career and growth potential to the team

- Encourages Managers to lead and apply performance management activities.

- Act as a role model and mentor to support and develop senior professionals into new leaders.

- Acknowledge and reinforce high quality work and outstanding performance efforts

- Facilitate efforts to increase retention and utilization

- Ensure that all staff complete and gain appropriate individual training plans annually.

- Actively participate in training and development programs.

- Create a culture which is based on knowledge sharing and learning from best practices.

- Develop and follow a personal plan to stay abreast of industry/ business developments and market trends.

Values and Ethics:

- Coach others on the significance of the values & help others identify where they should be demonstrating the values

- Demonstrate the values even when operating in complex and ambiguous situations

Desired candidate:

- A chartered civil/structural engineer with Exposure to International Standards.

- Experience in Precast Design is a must

- Extensive experience of structural engineering building design on multidisciplinary projects at all design stages

- A technically focussed engineer, with substantial experience of engineering and delivering in a broad range of structure types and materials

- Substantial experience of different construction techniques, buildability, and practical site issues

- Ability to effectively manage resources and to work within budget and to programme

- Experience in the use of software for structural analysis and design

- Practical experience of design methodologies to British, European and, preferably, American codes

- The ability to clearly communicate technical and design concepts through reports and presentations

- Good organisational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work well under pressure

- A flexible attitude to both the type of work being undertaken and the level of responsibility accepted

Education:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

- Master's degree or a PhD

- Premier Institute will be an added advantage