Associate Director - Civil and Structural Engineering

Associate Director – Civil and Structural Engineering

At Mace, our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition. We believe in creating places that are responsible, bringing transformative impact to our people, communities and societies across the globe.

Job Summary:

This is an opportunity to join the Mace Construct Commercial sector business unit which delivers our commercial offices, retro-fit and major project schemes. Your role will include providing expert technical support to the project team, relating to the primary civil and structural works, or to whole project technical compliance.

You will drive the validation of project specific proposals, plans, programmes, sequences, etc. ensuring the verification of compliance with the project brief, specifications, regulatory and Mace internal requirements.

You will be responsible for managing team/s of direct reports, and/or management of the engineering team deployed to the specific project, driving achievement of key performance indicators (KPIs) and including a continuous improvement culture.

 You’ll be responsible for:

• Ensuring the design output is accurate and checked to ensure information is clear, achievable, buildable, conforms to preferred methods, and is available to enable efficient procurement and construction of the works.

• Develop and implement project specific dimensional control strategy, to the achievement of project specific KPIs.

• Responsible for ensuring company & project quality requirements procedures are implemented, and quality standards are achieved. 

• Proactively support the interpretations of as-built surveys / installations and ensuring they are checked prior to construction of follow-on activities.

• Drive the management and production of quality assurance information, ensuring aligns to quality assurance standards and consistency. 

• Provide performance management of direct/indirect reports, providing technical & career development and coaching.

• Taking accountability for the technical aspects of a project including driving innovations and technical developments.

• Delivering continuous improvements in processes through application of best practices and lessons learned.

• Drive transformational change.

• Manage, influence & negotiate with key senior stakeholders (up to c-suite).

You’ll need to have:

• Overall responsibility for the technical/structural aspects of the project.

• Lead the project technical decision making process.

• Experience in developing construction methods & sequencing.

• Ability to check design output to ensure that information is clear, complete, achievable, buildable, confirms to preferred methods and is available to enable efficient procurement and construction of the works.

• Responsible for ensuring that company and project quality requirements and procedures are implemented.

• Expertise in the management of Temporary Works.

• Experienced in managing the health, safety & environmental aspects of the project (for structural elements).

• Professionally qualified with the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers or similar professional body.

• Provide engineering leadership to the project technical team.

• Highly accurate with good attention to detail.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt communication style to meet the needs of different audiences.

Within our construct business, we harness our unique combination of leading-edge practical expertise and project delivery consultancy to unlock the potential in every project. 

Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey, they are:

 ·         Safety first - Going home safe and well

·         Client focus - Deliver on our promise

·         Integrity - Always do the right thing

·         Create opportunity - For our people to excel

Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.