Job Title Associate Director – Structures
Contract Type: Permanent
Reporting to: Team Director
Hours: 37.5
About Elliott Wood
We are Engineers who deliver on better. Driven by strategic consultancy with creative and technical problem-solving, we act as originators, advisors and doers for the built environment. We inspire clients and organisations to think differently about their spaces – not just aesthetically and commercially – but for the benefit of the planet and people who use them every day
Our Values
Be brilliant.
1 to go above and beyond. 2 to show outstanding ability no matter the task. 3 to offer unrivalled service. 4 to achieve your full potential.
Flip it
1 to disrupt routine. 2 to think laterally. 3 to reveal the unseen. 4 to realise unexpected benefits.
Step forward
1 to inspire everyone for a better today, tomorrow and future. 2 to embrace diversity and inclusion. 3 to safeguard the wellbeing of yourself and others. 4 to choose well, leaving a positive footprint on our shared world.
Primary focus of this role:
A leadership role responsible for providing effective team leadership and support to project teams, overseeing multiple structural engineering projects and ensuring high-quality, profitable delivery. The role also contributes to strategy, organisational development, practice management and continuous business improvement.
Primary Responsibilities:
-
Providing effective team leadership and support to project teams.
-
Overseeing multiple projects to ensure high-quality, efficient and profitable delivery.
-
Contributing to strategy, organisational development and continuous business improvement.
-
Managing team resources, performance and professional development. Maintaining high standards of project and financial management. Developing existing client relationships and identifying new business opportunities.
-
Contributing to practice management and the ongoing development of Elliott Wood.
-
Maintaining professional qualifications and developing technical expertise in line with industry best practice.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Practice Development
-
Contributing to strategy, organisational development and continuous business improvement.
-
Actively contributing to one or more areas of business practice to help drive the business forward.
-
Maintaining professional qualifications and developing technical ability to reflect industry best practice.
-
Actively supporting CPD activity across Elliott Wood.
Technical & Project Delivery
-
Overseeing multiple projects to ensure high-quality, efficient and profitable delivery. · Managing project appointments, fee agreements, workload allocation and project checking.
-
Troubleshooting project issues to ensure quality, creativity and effectiveness in proposed solutions.
-
Maintaining high standards of project management and technical delivery.
Financial Management
-
Maintaining strong financial management across team budgets, income and expenditure.
-
Managing project appointments, fees and financial performance to support profitable project delivery.
-
Providing regular updates to Directors to support financial monitoring, forecasting and planning.
Team Management
-
Managing team resources, including workload allocation and resource planning.
-
Managing team performance, including appraisals, promotion and recognition.
-
Providing leadership, guidance and support to project teams.
-
Acting as a mentor to allocated graduates and junior members of staff.
-
Supporting the professional development and progression of team members.
Business Development
-
Nurturing existing client relationships and developing new business opportunities in conjunction with the Group Engineer (GE), Associate Directors (AD) and the Elliott Wood Partnership CRM programme.
-
Contributing to business development and work-winning activities to support the growth of the practice
