Technical Director/Manager

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Technical Director to join our team.

Our new management team structure presents a dynamic environment, where the Technical Director will play a pivotal role in helping to lead the company forward, aligning technical excellence with business objectives and growth.

The successful candidate will be an experienced manager with extensive expertise in both Civil and Structural design engineering. In this role, they will lead a team of 14: engineers and technicians, offering technical guidance and support while helping to shape and communicate the company’s vision, values, and strategic direction. Their efforts will contribute to driving sustainability, fostering growth, enhancing efficiency, and ensuring profitability whilst providing technical support, steering the company towards continued success and long-term growth.

What you will do

In our team you will have responsibility for upholding our recently launched in-house technical standards, ensuring that we comply fully with all local and national legislation and ensuring all our designs remain commercial, buildable and safe.

Implements strategic direction and management to projects, in varied sectors, from a technical perspective, from lessons learned, successes, tools, best practices and cross-pollination.

Key responsibilities in the role include:

• Lead and manage the engineering team on a day-to-day basis
• Interpret Technical Requirements of tenders
• Creating procedures and monitoring use
• Identify new or emerging software or where improvements can be made
• Approving outgoing drawings, reports etc
• Providing technical input into bids/submissions
• Technical support
• Identify technical skills gaps
• Identify training requirements and CPD opportunities
• Assess technical/commercial risks to Portland
• Oversee software maintenance, ensuring all design software remains fit for purpose
• Ascertaining client feedback
• Monitor for any changes in legislation alongside updates to technical standards and codes of practice.
• Design co-ordination
• Checking and approving calculations & reports prior to issue
• Staff mentoring
• Report all technical matters at Management meetings
• Writing specialist reports
• Undertaking specialist design work
• Assist with bid writing and fee letters
• Driving business development and identifying opportunities for growth to expand the company’s client base and market presence
• Responsible for driving efforts to bring in new projects and opportunities
• Work in alignment with our business plan, contributing to the achievement of our strategic goals and ensuring the continued growth
• Attendance at networking events
• Manage a small team of engineers/technicians whilst also being technical for whole office
• Implementation and monitoring of new protocols within the team
• Maintain and manage the recent launch of our drawing office manual and standardisation.

What you will have

In addition to having a confident, commercial and professional outlook you will need to have:

• Chartered Membership or Associate Membership of the ICE or IStructE
• High level of technical understanding with the ability to communicate this knowledge clearly – verbally and in writing
• Demonstrates effective problem-solving and decision-making skill
• Strong communication, analysis, technical design and drawing skills
• A self-motivated team player with good people skills and experience of managing & mentoring a team
• Excellent people management and networking skills
• A wide range of project experience

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary
• Reward for hard working and progression
• Support in gaining professional qualifications
• Death in service benefit
• Family friendly policies
• Flexible working hours

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic by law. If there are preparations we can make to help ensure you have a positive interview experience, please let us know.

We promote equal opportunity within Portland Consulting Engineers and value diversity in our workforce. Our commitment to Equal Opportunity and Diversity begins with our recruitment and selection process. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process.

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