Position: Associate Director
Full Time / Contract: Full Time
Project Type: Various Engineering and Sustainability Services
Location: Hong Kong
Salary: HKD 90,000 per month
Company Overview:
Leading multi-disciplinary consultancy, providing a diverse array of engineering and sustainability services across the globe. Renowned for delivering high-quality, innovative solutions, they are committed to sustainability and excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare fee proposal documents and fee calculations, for sign-off by a Partner
- Establish design concepts to ensure that designs are appropriate, deliverable and consistent with
the client’s brief - Monitor and manage (human) resourcing requirements for projects
- Take responsibility for the technical control of projects, to ensure that all designs are technically
sound and meet the client’s brief - Review and verify designs produced by direct reports and/or other team members, providing
feedback as required and signing off designs before they leave the Practice - Manage and control financial aspects of projects, co-ordinating input from other disciplines, and
ensure that invoicing is carried out in accordance with agreed schedules - Follow project management and QA procedures, and ensure that direct reports do so
- Lead / participate in regular team meetings to ensure that direct reports and/or project team
members are informed of key deliverables, deadlines, progress, issues & changes - Participate in induction arrangements for direct reports, ensuring that relevant and appropriate
training and support is provided - Conduct effective and timely performance appraisals with direct reports, ensuring that relevant
and appropriate objectives and development needs are identified and recorded - Monitor direct reports’ progress and development throughout the year, providing regular, focused
performance feedback, and ongoing support and guidance as required - Develop and maintain technical standards, knowledge and expertise in support of the pursuit of
“technical excellence” - Participate in marketing and business development activities, attending meetings and events, and
contributing to the development of team/discipline/sector marketing plans - Manage relationships with existing and prospective clients, maintaining regular and effective
contact, and appropriate records - Assist with Graduate recruitment as required (for instance by participating in careers events,
assessment centres, work experience programmes etc.)
Requirements & Qualifications:
- Engineering qualification at Bachelor’s degree level or higher in a relevant discipline
- Proven experience across the project lifecycle, incorporating a variety of sectors
- Proven experience of managing projects and delivering to time and budgetary deadlines, whilst complying with operational and other procedures
- Proven ability to manage resourcing requirements on projects and to co-ordinate the input of others from within and outside own team
- Broad and deep technical knowledge in chosen engineering discipline, plus demonstrable understanding of other disciplines
- Proven ability to negotiate and agree commercially appropriate fee arrangements and appointment terms
- Demonstrable ability to build and maintain relationships with clients, to deliver current work and secure new business
- Demonstrable understanding of issues of commercial and contractual risk, and a proven ability to mitigate these risks
- Proven ability and commitment to the coaching and development of less experienced staff
- Chartered professional
