# Technical Director Geotechnical Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Technical Director Geotechnical Engineer to join our team in Birmingham.

As a Technical Director, you will provide technical leadership and strategic direction for major geotechnical programmes and complex ground engineering projects across the UK and internationally.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing technical leadership and strategic direction for major geotechnical programmes and complex ground engineering projects

- Acting as a recognised authority in geotechnical engineering, setting technical standards, driving best practice, and providing expert advice

- Leading technical governance of projects, ensuring high standards of quality, risk management, and professional excellence

- Building and maintaining trusted relationships with key clients, industry bodies, and external stakeholders

- Developing long-term client account strategies and leading the pursuit of major opportunities

- Directing multidisciplinary teams across multiple projects and regions

- Leading and influencing technical innovation across the business

- Developing technical capability across the profession through mentoring, coaching, and sponsorship

- Driving business growth through technical excellence, market insight, and thought leadership

Requirements:

- Extensive experience leading complex geotechnical engineering programmes and delivering technical excellence on high-profile infrastructure and development projects

- Deep expertise in geotechnical engineering, engineering geology, and ground engineering

- Demonstrable experience acting as a technical authority, providing governance, assurance, and strategic direction

- Strong commercial awareness with a proven track record of winning work and growing client relationships

- Exceptional client-facing and stakeholder management skills

- Proven ability to develop, inspire, and lead high-performing technical teams

- Experience shaping technical strategy, driving innovation, and implementing improvements

- A strong profile within the wider industry, with active involvement in professional institutions or technical committees

- Chartered status with a relevant professional institution

## Skills

### Required
- geotechnical engineering
- engineering geology
- ground engineering
- technical leadership
- strategic direction

### Nice to have
- chartered status
- fellowship status
- industry recognition

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