Associate or Regional Director

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**Job Description** Start here. Grow here.**

You will oversee and develop a team of engineers within the office. Performance at this level requires developmental experience in a professional position.

This position will be well suited to an established consultant looking to take the next step or someone with a desire to work in multi-disciplinary design consultancy and wants to join a well-respected and established fire safety consultancy.

**What you’ll do**

**People**
- Lead and manage the team in terms of workload management, project delivery and performance.
- Assisting national leadership coordinate resources and achieve targets.
- Lead Performance & Review process for the Southern team by setting and monitoring SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound) goals for team members.
- Carry out staff appraisals of direct reports and ensure they do the same for their direct reports in line with AECOM Performance & Review process.
- Participate in the development of professional development plans for staff and encourage expansion of expertise on different sectors.
- Assist in training and mentoring of staff to ensure technical development of the team in line with the PDPs.
- Provide specialised technical input to studies and designs projects across the UK portfolio.
- Support and mentors less experienced staff on the road to Chartership.

**Projects**
- Provide estimates for the fire engineering budget and schedule to meet requirements on large, complex projects.
- Lead the project delivery on mid to large size projects nationally and internationally.
- Become and AECOM Approved Lead Verifier - leads strategic direction of projects.
- Become and AECOM Approved project manager and also act as project approver.
- Lead technical client relationships and play a major role in attracting new work/ clients.
- Ensure the quality of the work is maintained and delivered to the client within agreed period of time and budget.

**Business**
- Ensure implementation of all AECOM Heath & Safety policies at workplace and during out of office visits (i.e. meetings, trainings, site visits, etc.).
- Ensure that good client working relationships are maintained.
- Promote AECOM and its Fire Engineering business and bring more business (internal and external clients) to support the effective growth.
- Support the national team in achieving it s KPI’s.
- Develop and support a recruitment strategy and business plan [for recruitment in the Southern Fire team].
- Develop and assist implement a marketing strategy with a focus on interactive and collaborative communications with clients.
- Participate in the development of Fire Team Business Plan and implement throughout the Southern Fire team.

**Come grow with us**

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
**Qualifications** Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?**

**Requirements**:

- Extensive knowledge working in the UK.
- Extensive experience working in a large multi-discipline environment.
- In depth knowledge of common UK standards, i.e. ADB, BS9999, BS9991.
- Working knowledge of common fire engineering tools: FDS, SFS, evacuation modelling etc etc.
- Member status of relevant institution, i.e MIFireE.
- BEng/ MEng/ M.Sc. in fire science, fire engineering or similar.

**Preferred requirements**:

- Security cleared.
- CEng with the Institute of Fire Engineering.
- In depth knowledge of common fire engineering tools: FDS, evacuation modelling, Structural Fire Safety engineering, etc.
- International Experience, i.e. IBC/ NFPA.

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