UK Director - Civil & Strutural

• Deliver business and growth strategies aligned with company vision and values
• Mange design excellence, innovation, and consistent technical quality
• Oversee project performance including programme, risk, and financial outcomes
• Support and manage multi‑office teams, ensuring capability, capacity, and resource alignment
• Provide technical governance through design reviews and bid‑stage assurance
• Ensure compliance with quality systems and drive continuous improvement

• Full responsibility for discipline financial performance, including fee management, forecasting, cost control, and board‑level reporting
• Approve bids, fee proposals, contracts, and consultancy appointments
• Manage change control and ensure commercial alignment across project delivery

• Be responsible for and manage large, multi‑office teams, including recruitment, resourcing, and succession planning
• Provide visible leadership, mentoring, and capability development
• Foster a collaborative, high‑performance culture across the discipline
• Ensure teams are effectively structured to meet current and future workload demands

• Manage delivery of complex, multi‑sector projects to high technical and commercial standards
• Oversee project controls, including fees, risk, and overall delivery performance
• Support bid and design reviews, ensuring quality, compliance, and competitiveness
• Maintain technical governance across all workstreams
• Manage external consultants and specialist sub‑consultants
• Strengthen client relationships and support business growth initiatives

• Chartered Civil or Structural professional (ICE, IStructE or equivalent)
• Proven experience directing and managing large, multi‑office or geographically dispersed teams
• Strong track record in delivering complex, multi‑sector, multi‑disciplinary projects in a leadership capacity
• Strong commercial responsibility, including fee management, contracts, project performance, and financial reporting
• Experience engaging and influencing senior internal and external stakeholders, including clients and leadership teams
• Strong people leadership capability, including team development, resourcing, and performance management
• Must be willing and able to obtain, or already hold, the required Security Clearance to work on nuclear and defence sector projects

Many of the positions within our company are subject to security clearance or security assurance levels.
The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate level of security clearance or assurance level for this role, in line with client and sector requirements.

In some cases, additional nationality or residency criteria may also apply due to specific client or national security obligations.

Further information on National security clearance levels can be found on the UK Government website: (National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK)

We’ve been innovating in design, engineering and project delivery since 1957 and operate from 14 locations for a truly European reach. For more about our company story, see: About | BakerHicks. 

BakerHicks. A Morgan Sindall Group company.