Associate Director – Structures

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.