Job Description

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Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world\'s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation.

Established in 1928, GHD remains wholly owned by our people. We are 11,000+ diverse and skilled individuals connected by over 200 offices, across five continents.

Leading through engineering, architectural skills and experience, our forward-looking approaches connect and sustain communities around the world.

About the role

As a Team Leader at GHD you will be responsible for leading a team of professionals specialising in the delivery of discipline specific projects. In addition to managing your own portfolio of projects you will be accountable for the performance of your team and be someone who strives to motivate, develop and engage and assure the wellbeing of their team members.

The role will be based from either our Chester or Leeds office, but we do operate a hybrid working environment, which provides the opportunity to work from any of our other UK offices and from home. You will be required to travel to other UK Offices on a regular basis.

Core responsibilities

delivery of discipline specific projects. In addition to managing your own portfolio of projects you will be accountable for the performance of your team and be someone who strives to motivate, develop and engage and assure the wellbeing of their team members.

People Leadership

• Ensures that workload management (People Planner) and competency management processes are followed within the team
• Collaborates with own technical discipline within the Region to secure additional projects needed to maintain own team members and personal utilisation
• Develops team members in line with the Discipline capability matrix, ensuring all employees have access to high quality engaging performance check-ins
• Takes proactive steps to improve motivation, retention and engagement of team
• Make recommendations to the Discipline Design Lead for the appointment of Project Managers and Design Team members.
• Promotes a culture of safety and quality within the team
• Inputs to talent management and succession planning processes
• Participates in hiring processes to identify suitable candidates
• Drives financial performance through performance of self and team members on projects and accountability

Project Delivery

• You will be responsible for medium size projects in the role of Design Lead, overseeing design quality checks and reviews
• You may be called upon to be responsible for projects in the role of Design Manager or Project Manager on small single discipline projects.
• Communicates and delegates assignments and sets internal deadlines for projects, ensuring that assignments and tasks are completed on time and in line with quality requirements
• Develops business by ensuring client loyalty and repeat work through promoting excellent customer service and delivery across team and on projects
• Identifies and resolves quality, budget or time risks, escalating to the Design Manager where not possible to resolve themselves
• Participates actively in lessons learned session

GHD Behavioural Competencies

Commercially Aware: Demonstrates working knowledge of external forces impacting financial, market, economic, legal and regulatory environments and how GHD responds to them commercially.

Agile Learner: Actively learns through experimentation and experience and seeks ways to grow and to be challenged by new and novel conditions.

Client Centric: Anticipates and prioritizes client needs and takes action to provide highquality client experience.

Enabler of Self and Others: Demonstrates trust by bringing the best of self, valuing others contributions, and engendering confidence and trust with others.

GHD Values

Our values are the cornerstone of our culture and are important to the way we treat each other, and how we conduct ourselves and our business :

Safety

We intrinsically valuethe safety of ourselves and others affected by our

operations and services.
Teamwork

We collaborate withinour global community to help and support eachother to

achieve client, personal and company goals.
Respect

We value all individuals and nurture bothinternal and external relationships

through listening andunderstanding.
Integrity

We embrace honestyand trustworthiness through professional and ethical

behaviour with our clients, communities and each other.

What\'s in it for you:

We are committed to the success of our people which is why we want to create the best employee experience that supports each member through all the stages of their career. This is felt not only through our learning programmes, but also our dedicated I&D and Wellbeing teams, as well as our comprehensive employee benefits package. Here is a taste of what we offer:

• A competitive salary
• A comprehensive benefits package including: pension, medical insurance, income protection, 25 days holiday with the option to buy an additional 4 weeks per year
• Enhanced parental leave
• A range of voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - cycle to work, discounted gym membership, season ticket loan, discounts on retail & wellbeing classes
• Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• Wellbeing resources and tools
• Team led hybrid working arrangements
• Opportunities to grow your skills and shape your career towards technical expertise, developing the market or leading a business or team.
• International, multi-cultural team of highly motivated individuals
• An exciting referral program (bring people with you)

About Us:

Why GHD?

Being the best we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

Our commitment to you

Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.

Who we are

We are committed to solving the world\'s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation. GHD is a global professional services company that is a leader in engineering, construction and architectural expertise. Established in 1928, we remain wholly owned by our people. We are 10,000+ diverse and skilled individuals, yet we are proudly \'One GHD\' across more than 200 offices, spanning five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific region. Delivering extraordinary social and economic outcomes, we are passionate about building lasting relationships with our partners and clients.

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