Associate Director

5 months ago

Durban, South Africa AECOM Full time

Company Description
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**Job Description**:
The Associate Director performs various management, leadership, and people management accountabilities for a specific discipline. Has full responsibility for interpreting, organising, executing, and coordinating technical assignments and has formal supervisory responsibilities defining team operating standards and ensuring essential procedures are followed. Manages a group of engineers and/or technicians, coordinating activities of the unit. Implements the business plans in particular utilisation, utilising the resources locally, in South Africa and is responsible for making day-to-day decisions for the team. Strengthens the engineering area by providing training and development of employees. Requires the ability to proactively identify opportunities to support the overall growth of the discipline area.

**Team Management**:

- Supports the Director in implementing the overall discipline strategic goals.
- Responsible for working with the Team Leads/Managers and Principals in managing the team.
- Provides effective communication of technical and business issues and communicates to all reporting staff and the broader teams.
- Accountable for the results of the discipline department and adherence to approved project budgets.
- Fully accountable for the team's utilisation targets.
- Responsible for various management, leadership, and people management responsibilities for a specific discipline group.
- Supports business change management initiatives (i.e., quality management, BIM, project excellence) mandated by senior leadership. Recruits, trains, mentors, and evaluates the department's staff and supports GDC to identify and develop skills.
- Advises local management on growth, staff recruitment and retention strategies.

**Technical Excellence**:

- Engages with project technical teams within a field of expertise to confirm project approach and review deliverables.
- Liaises with units and individuals inside and outside the organisation concerning their technical sphere.
- Responsible for independently resolving all technical and managerial matters about the engineering issues within the department.
- Conducts peer reviews, leads verifications and shares knowledge through internal technical presentations and standards development.
- Provides high-level technical expertise in quantity, quality and cost to assess whether targets have been achieved and determine where improvements and efficiencies can be achieved.
- Performs technical quality reviews, including documentation in project record following policies and procedures and approves and signs off on work.
- Technically coordinates with Authorities for approvals of schemes.
- Leads digital transformation strategy and implementation and embraces change within the discipline.
- Assisting with Project Bids and Lead Verification

**Project Management**:

- Acts as Project Manager on large and/or complex projects.
- Drives a culture of financial responsibility, ensuring maximum profitability.
- Has a solid understanding of project delivery requirements and is well versed with AECOM’s project delivery procedures.
- Should be well versed in the use of Earned Value Management to assess the progress of design against budget.

**Client Relationship Management**:

- Actively involved with clients and leads business development initiatives, participating in preparing major bids and proposals on the commercial and technical side.
- Maintains regular contact with the client to identify pre-released opportunities.
- Applies acquired expertise and knowledge to solve business challenges and participates in the development of the technical strategy for proposals within the area of expertise.
- Identifies trends, issues and opportunities for their area of the business, industry, service line or process.
- Presents to clients, senior leadership and other project stakeholders to demonstrate progress and clearly explain design principles.

**Interdisciplinary Coordination**:

- Ensures assigned teams eff

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