Associate Director (Building Technology)

Associate Director (Building Technology)

Thrive on openness, respect and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join our Technology team in this key leadership role and create transformative outcomes for people, planet and places.

What is Technology Consulting?

Digital technology is advancing at pace and continuing to shape the built environment. Buro Happold provide the technology expertise clients require to determine and implement their digital vision.

Our clients can benefit from bespoke strategies, followed by robust engineering solutions that holistically consider risk, operational requirements, the business case for technology investment and the wider architectural vision. By engaging in leading research and development, we navigate and influence industry and the regulatory and statutory landscape.

Our experience and position across digital technology and the construction industry uniquely qualifies us to offer services uncommon to traditional engineering practices. We work directly with clients to uncover benefits that can be realised through the successful deployment of a broad range of technologies. Alongside this, we work with architects, technical specialists, utilities providers, technology providers, contractors, engineers and other stakeholders across all project phases to ensure the building design scheme is capable of meeting the current and future digital needs of its users.

Your next role

This role will see you playing a key leadership role in the team, supporting the Discipline Leader across project leadership, business development, people management, and strategy.

You will also work closely with our technology experts from across the practice involving specialisms such as digital strategy, experience analysts, smart buildings, smart cities, digital twins, digital infrastructure and data analytics.

In this role as well as design and project leadership, you will play a key part in developing more business for the team working closely with the discipline leader to grow market share and help realise the discipline’s growth potential.

Key Duties;

• Leading project delivery on behalf of the technology discipline, supporting the delivery teams with project engagement and representing technical authority for final review and sign-off.
• Take an active role in helping to promote the discipline and engage with senior management in supporting the development of the discipline strategy.
• Supporting the Discipline leader in actively seeking out new clients and workstreams, as well as seeking to cross-sell other Buro Happold services.
• Consulting with clients, collaborators and stakeholders to capture requirements and probe into the desired project outcomes. Communicating with clients to support them in developing their aspirations and ideas to help tailor solutions bespoke to each project, that consider up to date technology and harness the benefits of integration with other services and disciplines
• Input into consultative work – will require a good understanding of key business drivers for digital technology and its implementation, and the ability to support clients in developing visions, briefs and strategies for subsequent design work.
• Manage and respond to bid development requests preparing market capability information, roadmaps and budgets taking into account a variety of factors.
• Understanding and advocating smart building and cities technologies; developing s strategies that support the aspirations of the client’s development.
• Monitoring yours and others use of project finances; effectively managing time and resource within your team.
• Mentorship and line management of more junior staff.
• Assisting Discipline leader in monitoring and developing knowledge management, training and team support collateral.

You will be an expert in helping clients embrace and leverage technology in the built environment, adept at applying your skills at city master planning through to building fit-outs, working with clients and collaborators at the beginning of their digital transformations through to supervising contractors in delivery of solutions.

You will be a confident leader of people and practiced at all elements of ICT infrastructure delivery from bid, all the way through to handover and post occupancy review.

Further requirements include :

What we offer :

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us.Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another.Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

Associate Director (Building Technology)

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