Associate Director - Facade Engineering

**What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?**At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.
 

A little more about the role...

The Associate Director will play a key leadership role within the Façade Engineering team, responsible for leading the design and delivery of façade projects, developing client relationships, winning new work, and contributing to the growth and reputation of the business. The role requires a highly capable technical leader who can successfully manage multidisciplinary project delivery, provide strategic advice to clients, develop future leaders within the team, and actively contribute to achieving business objectives through work winning, market engagement, and client account development. The Associate Director will act as a trusted adviser to clients and a role model for technical excellence, collaboration, and commercial awareness.

• Lead the delivery of façade engineering projects from concept through construction. Lead client meetings, presentations, workshops and design reviews.

• Act as Project Director, Project Manager or Discipline Lead on complex and high-profile projects. Manage project risks, programme, resources and commercial performance. Ensure compliance with WSP quality, governance and project delivery procedures.

• Oversee technical quality and compliance with relevant standards, regulations and project requirements. Coordinate multidisciplinary interfaces including architecture, structures, MEP, fire, sustainability, acoustics and access maintenance.

• Provide technical direction, design reviews and mentoring to project teams. Mentor and develop engineers, senior engineers, associates and future leaders. Promote a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing team culture. Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous improvement across the team. 

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, architects, developers, contractors and key stakeholders. Act as a trusted adviser, providing strategic and commercially focused façade engineering advice. 

• Identify opportunities to add value and expand services within existing client accounts. Participate in strategic client engagement activities including networking events, roundtables and industry forums. Support client satisfaction initiatives and proactively seek feedback.