Team Lead - Geotechnical Practice
- Cities & development, Environment & geoscience
- Ottawa, Woodbridge
Team Lead - Geotechnical Practice
Come join us in reshaping the future with AtkinsRéalis. AtkinsRéalis is dedicated in engineering a better future for our planet and its people.
We are currently seeking a dynamic, and growth focused Senior Geotechnical Engineer to join the Geotechnical Practice as Team Lead providing technical and operational leadership, having superior client relations skills and a proven ability to deliver major assignments. Our current workload includes a portfolio of diverse projects across a wide spectrum of sectors, principally highway and rail infrastructure, along with Energy, Water & Environment, Urban development. You will be expected to help drive growth to provide a world class and fully integrated team and manage the day-to-day operations of the Team. The ideal candidate will have extensive expertise in geotechnical engineering, with a strong focus on rock mechanics and the design and construction of shafts and tunnels.
This role will be based in Ottawa, ON.
Your role within the team:
- Provide leadership to identify and realize strategic opportunities which will drive growth in the team.
- Provide line management supervision, oversee career & talent development for the team focused on expertise development and achieving excellence.
- Liaise with the Market/client teams to establish resource demand based on pipeline of opportunities and allocate resources accordingly.
- Manage team performance with focus on meeting or exceeding productivity and break-even targets and controlling overheads to budget.
- Work with the Practice Director to ensure skills and capacity meet the needs of the target markets through recruitment and focused staff development.
- Act as a Project Director / Project Manager as appropriate and undertake technical delivery.
- Promote and champion technological innovation and development within the team.
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in rock mechanics and tunnel engineering, incorporating best practices into project designs.
Why choose AtkinsRéalis as an employer?
Because we offer:
- The opportunity to work on various major projects for internal and external clients.
- An exciting environment where work-life balance is important.
- A wide array of learning and development opportunities.
- Competitive pay, flexible benefits, an employee share plan, and a defined contribution pension plan.
- A work environment focused on health and safety.
The ideal candidate:
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Geotechnical Engineering.
- Minimum of 10-15 years relevant industry experience, since graduation, in geotechnical engineering related services.
- An expert understanding of geo-mechanics, ground investigation practices, and geotechnical design services.
- Demonstrable leadership experience of managing a successful geotechnical engineering business delivering services for a range of clients.
- Proven ability to help identify and capitalize on business development opportunities, including the provision of fee estimates and developing technical/quality submissions as part of a tender process.
- Proven ability and experience in applying business policies, safety, quality and environmental management systems, project governance procedures and financial control systems to team management, projects and project portfolios.
Are you up for this challenge? Apply today and join our team to help engineer a Better Future for our Planet and its People.
At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds, and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion, or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
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