# Associate Technical Director - Roads (UK Roads)

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

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## Description

We are seeking an ambitious and dynamic Associate Technical Director – Roads to join our UK GCC Highways team in India.

This leadership role focuses on driving high-quality delivery of UK highways design projects, working closely with UK-based teams and supporting large-scale infrastructure programmes.

The role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, project leadership, stakeholder management, and team development, contributing to both project execution and the growth of the Roads discipline within GCC.

### Responsibilities

#### Project & Technical Leadership

- Lead the end-to-end delivery of UK highway design projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards

- Act as a technical specialist, applying advanced engineering principles to solve complex design challenges

- Drive innovation in design approaches, methodologies, and digital tools

#### Project Management & Delivery

- Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring efficient resource allocation and delivery outcomes

- Ensure compliance with QA, CDM, Sustainability, and HSE standards

- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and technical issues

#### Stakeholder & Client Engagement

- Liaise with UK stakeholders, clients, and multidisciplinary teams

- Support business development activities, including proposal preparation and fee estimation

- Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

#### Team Leadership & People Management

- Lead and manage a team of up to 15 engineers and designers

- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and supervision to team members

- Drive the professional development of early career professionals

- Foster a collaborative, high-performance, and positive team culture

#### Operational & Strategic Contribution

- Support discipline leadership in resource planning, utilisation forecasting, and performance reporting

- Contribute to Lean initiatives to improve efficiency and eliminate waste

- Participate in recruitment and capability building within the Roads team.

### Qualifications

#### Key Competencies & Skills

Mandatory Skills

- Minimum 5+ years of experience in UK highway design, including:

- Road geometry

- Pavement design

- Road restraint systems

- Signage and road markings

- Site clearance

- Strong proficiency in design tools such as:

- Civil 3D

- OpenRoads

- MX

- PDS/Keyline

- AutoCAD

- ProjectWise

- Proven experience in:

- Team leadership and stakeholder management

- Project and resource management

- Delivering projects within budget and programme constraints

- Ability to produce technical reports, specifications, and design documentation

- Strong understanding of UK design standards and emerging industry trends

- Excellent communication, organisational, and time management skills

Desired Skills

- Experience in financial/project cost management

- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer (or working towards it)

- Experience in Design & Build projects

- Exposure to Lean principles in project delivery

- Demonstrated experience working on multi-disciplinary projects

### Why Join Us

- Opportunity to work on high-impact UK infrastructure projects

- Exposure to global best practices and cutting-edge technologies

- Strong focus on career growth, leadership development, and technical excellence

- Inclusive and collaborative GCC ecosystem

## Skills

### Required
- Road geometry
- Pavement design
- Road restraint systems
- Signage and road markings
- Site clearance
- Civil 3D
- OpenRoads
- MX
- PDS/Keyline
- AutoCAD
- ProjectWise
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
- Resource management

### Nice to have
- Financial/project cost management
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer
- Design & Build projects
- Lean principles
- Multi-disciplinary projects

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