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Technical Lead - Roads Drainage

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Information Technology
Full-Time
WSP in India

Overview

Job Description

  • Driving the road drainage technologically across UK strategic road network.
  • Developing innovative solutions that push the boundaries of engineering aligns to UK national and local development policy to ensure a sustainable approach to managing surface water runoff.
  • Able to provide clear guidance to developers to deliver compliant and sustainable development, with guidance on design for flood resilience, reviewing flood risk assessments, surface water drainage systems, SUDS integrating nature-based solutions.
  • Leading, inspiring, and managing a high-performing team of engineers.
  • Provide engineering support and technical guidance for roads drainage design and associated design activities.
  • Instructing, supervising and monitoring engineers for various roads drainage related surveys and associated designs as required.
  • Ensuring compliance with the relevant UK technical standards (DMRB, MCHW, CIRIA, BS codes, etc.)
  • Take the technical lead on proposal preparation, deployment planning, and assessing on-site inspections.
  • Act as design manager or design lead on multidisciplinary scheme thereby leading roads drainage.
  • Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
  • Provide support in relation to demolition, site clearance, road surface and sewer infrastructure works, utilities, external works and other construction related matters on a variety of infrastructural development.
  • Maintain technical support to all regional departments / discipline leads in India and the UK by working in collaboration with in-house teams and clients.
  • Building and nurturing client relationships, technical skills enhancement and driving business growth.
  • Project management and Commercial governance – project reviews ensuring quality to deliver the desired scope of work.
  • Technical governance of the roads drainage teams output working with UK technical governance of all deliverables
  • Liaising with project managers you will play a key role in both managing technical input to our projects and ensuring that deliverables are appropriate and fit-for-purpose. Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required
  • Staff/Team Development – support, training, nurturing


The technical lead Highways will work closely with the UK Technical Leadership Group (TLG) - UK GCC SBU Head, UK GCC Head, Operations Director, Reginal Directors, Project Directors, Project Managers, Technical Directors and the Business Development team across the T&I Strategic Business Unit (and wider WSP UK / global business).

Responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

Project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK colleagues including:

  • Act as the ‘technical face’ of the India-based roads team
  • Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment/compliance
  • Project, programme and financial management
  • Promote WSP Vision and Values
  • Actively promote the UK GCC culture within the team and ensure that the staff deliver on promises
  • Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
  • Manage the team and processes to ensure the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs/deliverables from a variety of roads related disciplines meet internal and client requirements and quality assurance standards.
  • Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the GCC roads team and ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
  • Lead to prepare design solutions and develop methodologies, technical reports for various design stages for roads projects
  • Manage consultants in the preparation of drainage design of alignments, junctions, public -realm, active travel infrastructure designs
  • Monitor and resolve any road drainage design issues
  • Manage and co-ordinate remediation strategies and ensure regulatory approvals are obtained
  • Ensure all information is available for Pre-Start Meetings
  • Ensure all engineering drawings for start on site including standard construction details for roads drainage infrastructure and any remediation proposals
  • Secure necessary technical approval for roads drainage and other relevant designs
  • Provide all utility drawings of existing, proposed and diversions including obtaining information from utility providers as per NRSWA guidance.
  • Mentoring team members towards professional accreditation or equivalent
  • Recruitment to achieve budgeted and programmed team growth
  • Monitor and review team capability in the use of the required standards, processes and software tools and, with technical colleagues, identify training required
  • Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
  • Identify further skills that could be brought into the GCC to deliver additional services or enhancements to various businesses
  • Promote the team's achievements within the team, roads, WSP UK and the wider business via targeted profile raising activities
  • Ensuring that the Business Management System is implemented and maintained
  • Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement
  • Develop / maintain excellent relationships ensuring repeat business and client satisfaction, internally and externally
  • Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement processes and achievement of KPIs
  • Ensure process and governance such that all projects comply with Health and Safety, CDM and Quality Assurance Standards.
  • Collate Pre-Construction Information Packs and Information for Health And Safety Plans.
  • Understand the Designers responsibilities under the latest CDM regulations.
  • Must undertake continuous professional development.
  • Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures where required


Client / External focus

  • Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the teams’ performance of client satisfaction
  • Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums and including technical input to your team
  • Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge across the SBU


Key Competencies / Skills

Mandatory skills

  • You should be able to demonstrate a proven working knowledge of the Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB), Sustainable drainage to CIRIA, and Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works (MCDHW) in relation to roads projects and experience of at least 10+ years in UK highway design
  • Substantial relevant experience and technical skills in flood risk and surface water drainage assessments within the planning process, which you may have gained while working in a previous consultancy, local authority or other Risk Management Authority
  • Excellent understanding of best practice guidance and tools for surface water drainage and flood risk management
  • Track record of senior technical experience in at least one roads drainage discipline.
  • Excellent communication, internal client handling, interpersonal skills and listening skills with the ability to influence and interact with people.
  • Excellent knowledge of road drainage design software (MicroDrinage, Causeway flow, Civil 3D), MS and office.
  • Comfortable leading internal engineering discussions and the experience and ability to understand, evaluate and explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals
  • Technical manager with management acumen and strong leadership skills
  • A hard-working self-starter with initiative and ability to work within a team environment
  • Understand own strengths and impact, adapting behaviour according to different situations and individuals
  • Able to work effectively under pressure
  • Act ethically with fairness, honesty and integrity
  • Successful track record of delivery of large detail design projects in the roads sector within the context of a professional services provider
  • You should have demonstrable experience of resource and project management
  • You will be aware of current and emerging technologies relevant to the roads drainage sector
  • Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals and design teams
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Effective time management and strong organisational skills


Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Educated to Bachelor / Master’s degree level in a roads drainage related discipline such as Civil Engineering.
  • Chartered Engineer status of a recognised professional institution (e.g. ICE, CIHT) is preferred.
  • Substantial experience in managing large-scale structural infrastructure projects.
  • Seasoned professional with at least 15 years’ experience in design, project management, project delivery or in leadership in a consulting engineering environment
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