# Technical Director - Ports and Maritime

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

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## Description

WSP is seeking an experienced Technical Director to help shape the future of ports, terminals, and maritime infrastructure across the UK, Ireland, Europe, and selected international markets.

This is a highly visible leadership role combining technical authority, client leadership, business growth, and delivery accountability across some of the industry's most complex and strategically important maritime programmes.

The successful candidate will have significant autonomy and influence, helping to shape technical strategy, develop future capability, strengthen client relationships, mentor future leaders, and contribute directly to the growth and direction of WSP's Maritime business.

Key responsibilities include:

- Acting as Project Director or senior technical sponsor for major maritime, port, and terminal programmes

- Defining the technical vision and delivery strategy for major infrastructure programmes

- Providing senior multidisciplinary oversight across maritime civil, geotechnical, coastal, structural, electrical, environmental, buildings, transport, and cost disciplines

- Leading technical challenge and decision-making on constructability, phasing, resilience, automation, electrification, decarbonisation, and operational integration

- Leading strategic pursuits and win strategies, developing compelling client propositions, and leveraging WSP's multidisciplinary capability

- Building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders

- Mentoring and developing senior engineers, project managers, and future technical leaders

- Contributing to the development and implementation of WSP Maritime's medium-term business strategy

- Leading development of project governance, technical standards, guidance notes, best-practice methodologies, and lessons-learned programmes

- Driving recruitment, succession planning, and capability development across the Maritime business

- Representing WSP as an external industry leader, contributing to conferences, technical forums, industry working groups, and the development of best practice across the ports and maritime sector

- Championing WSP's health, safety, and wellbeing culture through visible leadership, design safety governance, behavioural safety leadership, and active engagement with project teams.

The ideal candidate will have:

- Significant experience delivering and leading major maritime, terminal, or infrastructure programmes

- Chartered Engineer status with recognised technical authority and proven accountability for major engineering decisions

- Demonstrable external profile within the ports and maritime sector

- Experience contributing to business growth, including strategy development, recruitment, capability building, market positioning, and major opportunity conversion

- Proven project director capability directing multidisciplinary projects from masterplanning and FEED through detailed design, procurement, construction support, and completion

- Strong understanding of delivery governance, including FIDIC or equivalent contract environments, technical governance, QA/QC, risk management, programme and commercial controls

- Ability to combine technical depth with delivery judgement and senior client credibility on complex or high-value commissions

- Experience in emerging and specialist port requirements such as automated terminals, port electrification, climate resilience, asset management, or major rehabilitation programmes would be advantageous.

## Skills

### Required
- technical leadership
- maritime infrastructure
- client leadership
- business growth
- project management
- engineering decisions
- strategic thinking

### Nice to have
- automated terminals
- port electrification
- climate resilience
- asset management
- major rehabilitation programmes

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