Technical Director

Location/s: Dublin, IE
Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome
Recruiter contact: William Bates

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit
The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview of the role

Your role will be to support the Buildings Health division as a Client Account Director / Technical Director to lead the growth of the health market in Ireland. It will also support the wider division in leading and shaping our services and solutions as we look to expand healthcare work in the UK and other core MM geographies.

We want to recruit a candidate who will provide healthcare sector business development and subsequent technical delivery leadership as part of the teams delivering built environment healthcare projects. The role will include technically led bid activity and client relationship building across our markets, engaging clients at government level. The successful candidate will have the breadth of knowledge to understand the full spectrum of our services and solutions and shape these towards client’s front of mind issues. The candidate will be self-motivated and capable of delivering high-quality advisory services with the minimum of supervision to time and budget. As part of a wider health team the role will support the Healthcare sector team who have developed a strong reputation for work winning, successful project delivery and technical excellence as we continue to shape our services to stay ahead of the market. This will include initiatives like PFI and hand back as well as other broader routes to market.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate and take positive steps to create an inclusive culture.

The opportunity now exists for an individual to join this enthusiastic and growing team and to develop their career within the built environment sector at Mott MacDonald.

You will:

• Have responsibility for all aspects of assigned project work, and with a focus on healthcare sector-built environment projects
• Support national core teams of project delivery staff on healthcare projects – developing/mentoring the teams to successfully deliver their projects
• Working and liaising with associated disciplines as part of bidding and delivering technical support
• Client facing on matters leading the account and prospects
• Support senior managers running the commercial and contractual side of projects
• Lead as Project Principal a single major project / or a programme of projects

As a Director level consultant, you will be involved in a range of small to large projects within our built environment sector project delivery team. The role will be challenging, demanding, varied and offer opportunities for skill set and career development. It is expected that you will be responsible for achieving 50% utilisation as PP on Ireland health projects. In addition, you will lead strategic health sector client accounts in line with the approved business case and as directed by the Divisional General Manager.

The key elements of the role are (but not limited to):

• Manage the client account for healthcare in Ireland
• Managing the delivery of assigned projects as Project Principal
• Working and liaising with associated disciplines as part of delivering projects – primarily focussed on the health sector
• Management of internal stakeholders
• Responsible for managing external stakeholders, ensuring client satisfaction and pursuing and promoting opportunities with potential and established clients
• Be familiar with the capture, convince and implementation of successful bids and project delivery
• Developing, maintaining and monitoring programmes for scheduling and reporting on deliverables across specific projects
• Maximising profitability of projects, monitoring against budget, reacting and anticipating potential problems and communicating in line with client expectations
• Demonstrating technical expertise, providing in depth knowledge whilst proactively coaching and developing less experienced team members

Candidate specification

A fully qualified and experienced professional having the breadth of experience, ability and maturity to make good decisions across the key areas of their recognised built environment discipline and demonstrating the following attributes:

• Have experience of leading on major built environment commissions
• Have experience of mentoring and leading graduate engineers
• Be enthusiastic and ambitious
• Possess excellent communication skills, including report writing and presentation
• Have the ability to lead elements of one large project or a portfolio of smaller projects
• Have experience of managing client relationships and expectations with accountability for key customer relationships and delivery of outputs
• Working as a specialist providing high level advice to others
• Track record of achievement and innovation, delivering complex projects or new services
• Managing and supervising the work of other professionally qualified staff
• Well-developed professional network externally and desire to build internal networks within the organisation

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Flexible working
• Pension matched up to 7% of base salary
• Competitive annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Life insurance
• Income continuance
• Enhanced Paternity leave
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel TaxSaver tickets
• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development – we are accredited by Engineers Ireland
• Mentoring and support for career development and progression

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

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