West Area Team Lead

West Area Team Lead - Rail Infrastructure

**Country**:Canada**Position Location**:Vancouver, BC / Calgary, Alberta**Contract Type**:Permanent**Work Pattern**:Full Time**Sector**:Transport**Discipline**:Railways**Job Ref**:2909**Recruiter Contact**:Jennifer Porquez- Here at Mott MacDonald, we are experts in engineering, management, and development services supporting multisector project work in over 150 countries. One of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, we pride ourselves in our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes through the connected thinking of our 20,000+ talented consultants. Sustainability and innovation are at the heart of all of our sectors which, in North America include Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation, and Water.- Due to continued growth, Mott MacDonald's Canadian Transit and Urban Mobility Group is looking to hire an adaptable and self-motivated individual to manage our Rail Infrastructure teams in Vancouver, reporting to our Canadian Rail Infrastructure Lead and to provide project management expertise on transit and rail infrastructure projects. With our Rail Infrastructure team’s increasing workload and growing portfolio of Transit and Rail projects, there is a need to provide additional line management support and to provide better local focus for each team and management support for dedicated Rail Infrastructure projects.- Ensuring MMCL’s Rail Infrastructure is resourced to meet the workload, you will manage a multi-discipline team of engineering professionals and technical staff in the development, delivery and setting-to-work of Infrastructure Engineering within MM’s North American rail and rail-related projects. You will manage the Rail Infrastructure team in your area covering disciplines including Track Engineering, Alignment Design, Project Management, and other railway disciplines related to civil/structural engineering.- The Rail Infrastructure Team Area Lead is part of the management team of Rail Infrastructure in Canada.**Responsibilities**:

- Together with the Canadian Rail Infrastructure Lead, the Area Lead will manage the national team resource loading, team development and well-being
- The Area Lead will be responsible for the wellbeing of the local team members, including managing the workload and working hours together with ensuring resource is available for all on-going and newly won projects
- The Area Lead will manage the technical and commercial proposal response for Rail Infrastructure bids and provide input to multi-discipline proposal responses. The Area Lead will also perform the role of PM for any Rail Infrastructure, or predominantly Rail Infrastructure projects- The successful applicant will help shape and manage the teams locally through development, growth, supervision and support. You and your partner Area Lead will be responsible for sharing and managing resource concerns, both under and over utilisation, and identifying additional resource needs
- Within this role, you will also manage the proposal response for Rail Infrastructure bids and provide input to multi-discipline proposal responses; you will also function as PM for any Rail Infrastructure, or predominantly Rail Infrastructure projects
- You will work with clients, key delivery partners, contractors and service providers as well as maintaining relationships with members of the Rail Infrastructure Practice across North America and other transportation related teams
- Develop and lead the Rail Infrastructure team in either Vancouver or Calgary (West)
- Managing the team resources, including:

- Team growth, in coordination with the Canada national lead
- Team workload and wellbeing
- Team member development
- Budgets
- Working with the NASA Rail Infrastructure Practice Lead, Canada Rail Infrastructure Lead and other Area Lead, support the continued growth of the Canada Rail Infrastructure Team
- Provide strategic and tactical direction for Rail Infrastructure Engineering and Engineering of Rail Infrastructure activities in your Area
- Drive the development and on-going review/update of all engineering of Infrastructure processes and practices used within Mott MacDonald
- Manage small to medium sized projects that are focused on Rail Infrastructure activities
- Work with other PMs to resource their project as appropriate, working with the national lead and other Area lead as necessary
- Manage multiple stakeholders
- Attend meetings and make presentations at appropriate levels, up to and including project, MM Practice, Senior Client staff and MM NASA management meetings- Personal values
- Act as a role model for Mott MacDonald’s vision and values, behaving in ways that are in alignment with corporate related procedures
- Take responsibility of your own and others' health and safety, and of those who may be affected in the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working to corporate and project Health and Safety rules, especi