Technical Director

An opportunity for a high performing environmental professional to influence, have impact and to provide expert advice to drive excellent outcomes. _
- Do you have extensive experience with EIA, ESIA and ESDD?
- Diverse mix of projects to allow you to develop in new ways and realise your potential.
- Be part of our global consultancy with a South East Asia focus and help lift our capability.

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management and development consultancy. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and accomplished Technical Director - Environment to join our team.
Reporting through to the Advisory Lead, this is a fantastic advisory consultancy leadership opportunity to be part of a growth business in this specialist area that operates at the leading edge of delivering environmental services for projects in the South East Asia (SEA) region. You’ll help lead the delivery of our Environmental & Social (E&S) consultancy in a fast moving, client focused commercial environment. You’ll be part of a dynamic environmental practice that works collaboratively with various Mott MacDonald regional and global teams to deliver environmental and social studies.
You’ll bring a dynamic and engaging approach to this client facing role and you’ll work within a multi-disciplinary team that is responsible for providing leadership on inputs for environmental and social aspects across a range of projects across multiple sectors (power, transport, built environment and water), working collaboratively with other disciplines to ensure both project objectives are delivered successfully, within budget and to programme. The focus of the role will be on environmental assessment for a variety of projects particularly in SEA. We work on some of the most significant projects in the region including renewable and thermal generation, buildings and infrastructure, water and transportation projects.
Key elements of the role include:

- Environmental impact assessment, environmental due diligence and monitoring.
- Project leadership/delivery and managing project teams, clients and sub-consultants.
- Business development, proposals and work winning activities.

You will be office based however there will be a requirement to undertake site visits and attend client meetings across the SEA region (when COVID permits).
- About You:

- Masters’ qualification in a relevant environmental specialism.
- Experienced in leading the delivery of environmental work by multi-disciplinary teams. Including ESIA and due diligence for major infrastructure projects.
- Solid experience in an environmental specialism and a broader awareness of other environmental or social disciplines.
- Effective leadership and management skills with the ability to foster a positive team environment, lift individual/team performance, manage workload & performance and champion technical leadership initiatives.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills with the ability to make robust, defensible decisions while meeting challenging budgets and timescales.
- Familiarity with the general technical concepts of major infrastructure projects (in sectors such as energy, transport and water).
- Aptitude in the identification, progression, delivery and success in tendering for new project opportunities.
- Knowledge and interest to provide report reviews and mentoring of junior staff.
- Excellent English language skills (spoken and written) and at least one regional South East Asian language.

Job Profile
- Mott MacDonald has over 20 years’ experience of complex and challenging environmental impact assessments (EIA) and of writing environmental statements for a wide range of projects. These include some of the world’s largest infrastructure, engineering, and development projects.
Clients recognise the benefits that we bring to their project because of our in-house expertise not just in all environmental disciplines, but also in other related areas. We offer a complete, integrated service covering all phases of developments from master planning to EIA, and from strategic environmental assessment to construction environmental management plans.
We're engaged during the earliest stages of a project's conceptualisation not only to ensure legal compliance and adoption of best practice standards, but also because our EIA studies are valuable tools for identifying potential problems during the initial planning and design process. We identify ‘show-stoppers’ and cost-effective solutions as well as design mitigations as projects develop.
Mott MacDonald is a corporate member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment and hold its EIA Quality Mark.

Other Information
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