# Technical Director - Mining UK

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Director - Mining UK to own and drive engineering delivery across feasibility, FEED and execution phases, ensuring safe, compliant and efficient design aligned to cost, schedule and technical outcomes.

**The Role**

**Engineering Delivery**

- Accountable for end-to-end engineering performance (scope, cost, schedule, quality)

- Set up and manage engineering for projects from early-stage through execution

- Define engineering scope, deliverables, EWPs and resource plans

**Safety and Risk**

- Lead safety-in-design and inherently safer design (ISD) principles

- Run HAZIDs / design risk reviews and ensure close-out of residual risks

- Proactively manage technical risk to protect programme and delivery certainty

**Technical Governance and Assurance**

- Establish and apply engineering management plans, basis of design and design criteria

- Implement design assurance, review and quality processes

- Manage peer reviews, stage gates and technical decision workflows

- Lead design change control aligned with client, regulatory and project requirements

**Engineering Performance and Controls**

- Track and drive engineering performance using deliverable tracking, earned value and issue management

- Intervene early on slippage and implement corrective actions

- Maintain alignment between engineering outputs and project schedule

**Leadership and Team Management**

- Lead multidisciplinary teams across locations (discipline leads, SMEs, consultants, workshare centres)

- Drive accountability, performance and delivery culture

- Coach and develop capability within the team, supporting succession and growth

**Digital Engineering and BIM**

- Deploy and manage digital engineering environments (e.g. Aveva E3D, Navisworks, ISO 19650 aligned systems)

- Lead model federation and 3D/4D design reviews

- Use digital tools to support constructability, design integration and lifecycle traceability

**Design Integration and Reviews**

- Plan and lead multidisciplinary design reviews (concept, 30/60/90%, model reviews)

- Ensure designs meet requirements for safety, compliance, constructability, operability and maintainability

**Interface and Construction Alignment**

- Manage key interfaces across engineering, procurement and construction

- Coordinate with field teams and contractors to ensure buildable, aligned solutions

**Value and Continuous Improvement**

- Lead technical decision-making and value improvement initiatives

- Capture and embed lessons learned across projects

**Experience and Capability**

- Significant experience delivering large-scale industrial / mining / process projects across feasibility, FEED and execution

- Proven track record leading multidisciplinary teams in EPCM, integrated owner or contractor environments

- Strong background in engineering management, design coordination and project set-up

- Experience in safety-in-design, technical assurance and governance frameworks

- Familiar with digital engineering and BIM environments (E3D, Navisworks, integrated data platforms)

- Strong commercial awareness – understands impact of engineering decisions on cost and delivery

- Able to operate at both strategic level (set-up, governance) and detail (issue resolution, technical decisions)

- Degree qualified in Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, or Engineering Geology (postgraduate qualification desirable).

- Extensive experience in geotechnical design for underground tunnels and shafts in soft ground and/or hard rock.

- Strong understanding of ground behaviour, soil and rock mechanics, and geotechnical risk management.

- Familiarity with tunnelling methods (e.g., TBM, NATM, SCL) and shaft sinking techniques.

- Proficiency in geotechnical analysis software (e.g., PLAXIS, FLAC, GeoStudio) and interpretation of ground investigation data.

- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and lead multi-disciplinary teams.

- Excellent communication skills and willingness to travel within the UK and internationally.

## Skills

### Required
- Aveva E3D
- Navisworks
- ISO 19650
- Civil Engineering
- Geotechnical Engineering
- Engineering Geology
- PLAXIS
- FLAC
- GeoStudio
- Tunnelling methods
- Shaft sinking techniques
- Geotechnical analysis software
- Ground investigation data interpretation

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