Discipline Team Lead

Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is a global leader in design and engineering for a sustainable future. Our Design & Engineering team is a dynamic group of professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional civil structural and geotechnical solutions across Canada. We are committed to fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive work environment where our employees can thrive and contribute to the success of our clients and communities.

Arcadis is looking for a Discipline Team Leader with a strong geotechnical / geo-structures background to develop and grow our design team in East Canada to lead and support road, rail, and port projects, including heavy civil structures, foundations, and bridges, in N.S., Halifax Canada.

 

Arcadis provides flexible and remote work arrangements, career development opportunities and a supportive and collaborative team environment. We encourage involvement in professional associations, conferences, and support our staff to grow through life-long learning.

As a part of Mobility Advisory Canada, we partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunities for everyone. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today's mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world's growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

Role accountabilities:

In this role you will be responsible for developing and managing a small and growing team in Vancouver, producing, supervising, and managing the creation of engineering products on a wide variety of small to large projects in the road, ports, rail and transit sectors. You will lead project teams to define the problem, establish the work scope, prepare budgets and schedules, plan the work, and provide technical direction and oversight while also performing complex technical engineering tasks efficiently and accurately and lead and mentor less experienced team members. You will prepare and check detailed engineering calculations and models, drawings, specifications, quantities and cost estimates, detailed technical reports, procurement documents, design packages, proposals, and detailed analyses. You will provide technical engineering services during construction, including the review of contractor submissions, coordinate and collaborate with other Engineering disciplines and departments, and build and maintain effective working relationships with clients. You will also be responsible for leading successful project pursuits, including determining budget estimates and staffing requirements and writing winning proposals. 

The successful candidate will also perform Project Management duties including assembling and managing project teams, controlling project budgets and schedules, quality control of deliverables, client interaction and management, and financial reporting. You will be expected to work to tight project schedules while ensuring quality of project deliverables, provide input and technical guidance to CAD Designer/Drafters, Designers, and less experienced Engineers working on the same and other projects, while ensuring compliance with all applicable codes and regulations.

Qualifications & Experience:

• 4-year degree in Civil or Structural Engineering from a recognized post-secondary institution
• Ideally with a Masters in Geotechnical Engineering or related discipline
• Around 10 years experience in geotechnical/geo-structures design on small, medium, and large civil engineering projects, ideally in the roads, rail, and ports sectors including deep excavations, retaining walls, foundations, and bridges
• Strong communication, interpersonal, problem-solving, and collaborative skills
• Ability to provide effective technical mentoring to less experienced engineers
• Must be a licensed Professional Engineer in NS, and/or Ontario and Alberta
• Technical knowledge of geotechnical design and analysis and close liaison with civil structural and bridge engineering design
• Excellent technical report writing experience and skills

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

The salary range for this position is $95,900 - $137,000. The base salary represents Arcadis' hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.

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