# Technical Director - Roads

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

As the Technical Director for Planning & Development team, you will lead a team of technical experts and work closely with the UK Technical Leadership Group, Project Directors, and Business Development team across the P&C P&D Strategic Business Unit.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Leading technical aspects of road projects for the UK market

- Developing innovative solutions

- Providing engineering support and technical guidance for roads design

- Supervising and monitoring engineers

- Ensuring compliance with UK technical standards

- Providing support for demolition, site clearance, and road infrastructure works

- Maintaining technical support to regional departments

- Building client relationships and driving business growth

- Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to high-quality standards

You will also be responsible for:

- Project management and technical leadership

- Managing the team and processes

- Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams

- Providing technical leadership and direction for the GCC Development team

- Preparing design solutions and technical reports

- Managing consultants and remediation strategies

- Ensuring regulatory approvals are obtained

- Securing technical approval for roads and other designs

- Providing utility drawings and obtaining necessary information

- Monitoring and reviewing team capability

- Identifying further technical skills to bring into the GCC

- Contributing to the design of operational processes and quality measurement processes

- Ensuring compliance with Health and Safety, CDM, and Quality Assurance Standards

Key competencies and mandatory skills include:

- Proven working knowledge of DMRB and MCDHW

- 15+ years of experience in UK highway design

- Successful track record of delivering large detail design projects

- Senior technical experience in at least one highways discipline

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Knowledge of road design software

- Ability to work effectively under pressure

- Experience of resource and project management

- Awareness of current and emerging technologies

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a highways-related discipline

- At least 18 years of experience in designing and managing technical delivery of development infrastructure projects

- Chartered Engineer status is preferred

- Substantial experience in managing large-scale highway projects for the UK market

## Skills

### Required
- DMRB
- MCDHW
- UK highway design
- Road design software
- Project management
- Technical leadership
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving
- Analytical skills

### Nice to have
- Chartered Engineer status
- Experience in managing large-scale highway projects

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