Technical Director

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

• Provide expert technical guidance to the team on complex project delivery, innovation, and capability development.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies, and methodologies that can enhance the discipline's performance and competitiveness.
• Advise on strategic positioning of the discipline in major pursuits, ensuring technical excellence and alignment with client expectations.
• Actively contribute to major, high-impact, high-potential pursuits by shaping technical strategy, identifying broader scope opportunities, and supporting bid development.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor on critical projects, ensuring quality, risk management, and value creation.
• Collaborate with pursuit leaders and project managers to integrate GEC capabilities into global delivery models.
• Support in quality assurance across all deliverables, ensuring alignment with global standards, client expectations, and internal governance.
• Promote best practices, review protocols, and continuous improvement mechanisms to uplift technical quality.
• Support internal and external audits, peer reviews, and corrective actions to maintain high standards of delivery and compliance.
• Drive initiatives to enhance technical capabilities across the discipline, including training, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing programs.
• Support transformation efforts aligned with GEC strategy and operating model changes.
• Support the Discipline Director to forecast and build future-ready technical teams through recruitment and learning and development.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, technical rigor, and delivery excellence.
• Build strong relationships with senior GBA stakeholders, advocating for GEC involvement in strategic initiatives.
• Influence decision-making through data-driven insights and thought leadership.
• Support the Discipline Director in global forums, promoting GEC technical capabilities and reputation.
• Influence a culture of project delivery excellence and promote the culture and brand of Arcadis externally.
• Support the Discipline Director in introducing initiatives, standardization, upgrading, and performance improvement based on Discipline Director's instructions.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.