Asset Management 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 34,000 people, in over 30 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:

Our vision is to be the leading asset management organisation supporting our clients optimise the performance and value from their physical assets through the lifecycle of planning, creation, maintenance, operation, and disposal. We combine our digital, engineering, data analytics and consultancy expertise from our global teams to deliver sustainable and predictive asset management solutions for asset intensive organisations, enabling operational, tactical, and strategic asset management decision making in a continually changing environment.

Based in the UK, we have an exciting opportunity for an Asset Management Director to join our Rail Asset Management team and help achieve this vision. You will support the delivery our UK rail asset management strategy, lead key areas of business development including value propositions and support the delivery of a range of asset management consultancy projects.

You will be a senior leader within the mobility business at Arcadis, reporting to the Head of Rail Asset Management. You will play a pivotal role in driving growth by identifying and converting market opportunities.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanisation and digitisation trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimise the mobility of people and goods.

Role accountabilities:

Lead the development of asset management solutions in rail.

Working with the head of rail asset management contribute towards the growth of the rail asset management service offering and capabilities

Lead business development opportunities and value propositions across the rail sector.

Lead the delivery of a range of asset management consultancy projects.

Build trusted relationships with client teams.

Qualifications & Experience:

Substantive experience in rail industry service leadership and asset management Ability to build develop strong relationships and work with resources and teams across the business in the UK and internationally Demonstrable experience of building client and partnership relationships Strong asset knowledge in rail with an ability to transfer this knowledge to other infrastructure assets Some additional cross sector experience would be desirable Knowledge of asset management practices including ISO 55001, asset lifecycle planning, investment planning, performance-based asset management and digital transformation in asset management.

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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.