Public-Private-Partnership - Principal Consultant

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Public-Private-Partnership - Principal Consultant

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The Opportunity

We are currently recruiting for a Principal Technical Advisor to join our Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Technical Advisory team based in Birmingham or London. You'll join a team of advisors and experts with a diverse range of background and experiences and join projects delivering advice to clients across our service markets. We are recognised industry experts and regularly win global awards for our technical advisory work.

We work on a variety of PPP projects in the transport and social infrastructure sectors, in the UK across Europe, Asia and North America. You will be working with multi-disciplinary teams across the range of Arup's technical expertise to advise our clients with Technical Due Diligences, Lifecycle, Sustainability, Project optimisation and related questions. Our work broadly falls into the following services: Grantor Technical Advisor, helping our clients to shape projects from inception to delivery; Lenders' Technical Advisor, helping our clients to ensure projects are bankable and deliverable, from tender to construction, and operation to handback; PPP Technical Advisory, working with Concessionaires to provide technical advice to PPP projects.

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective - in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning - to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

Is this role right for you?

As a Principal Technical Advisor, you will be comfortable with uncertainty and able to handle a varied workload of clients and projects. We would expect you to be involved with work winning, project delivery and to lead tasks and teams. We would also expect you to be flexible and work in an agile way for our clients. This also includes occasional business travel for site visits, client meetings and conference attendance.

The successful candidate will be a technical expert with excellent analysis and report writing skills. Capable in leading work with clients alongside leading projects and tasks and contributing as part of a multi-disciplinary team to develop presentations and reports. You will be passionate about learning continuously, adapting to new tasks, and working on different types of problems and solutions. Supporting us as we grow our team capability and services, and developing junior staff members will also feature within this role.

Qualifications, skills and experience desired:

• The ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical clients.
• Applying data analysis approaches to provide evidence-based advice and insights for clients to determine the 'so what' and potential impacts.
• Interest and first-hand experience with either PPP, Construction and/or Operation and Maintenance contracts.
• Background in a client-facing role within an engineering consultancy firm or experience working within an infrastructure owner/operator.
• Project delivery team leadership experience; a track record of successfully forming and managing agile multi-disciplinary teams.
• Supporting business development and work winning activities.

What we offer you

At Arup, we care about each member's success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive - through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup's legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you'll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different people, shared values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas - this drives our excellence.

Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion - we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at

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