Head of Discipline - Roads & Airports

Head of Discipline - Roads & Airports

Aarhus

Do you want to have the responsibility for a community with high professional quality, where people, well-being and professionalism go hand in hand? Are you motivated by creating direction, developing talent and bringing a team together around a common goal? And do you believe that the best results are created through trust, collaboration and clear leadership?

Then you now have the opportunity to contribute to developing both people and projects in the role of Head of Discipline, Roads & Airports.

Create clear direction, progress and durable solutions

To strengthen our Road & Airports department, we are looking for an engaged Head of Discipline to lead a team of 25 skilled colleagues in Aarhus. The discipline is part of COWI's Engineering Unit Transportation West, which consists of seven disciplines that work closely together, both on leadership, competence development and project delivery.

We work on some of Denmark's most significant infrastructure projects. The projects include road and airport projects for local clients, public authorities and international actors, as well as construction tasks in energy, data centers and building, both locally and internationally. Common to the tasks is that they make a real difference to society.

As discipline lead you will have a central role in creating coherence between strategy, people and results. You must ensure high technical quality and solid project execution, but just as important is that you create engagement, well-being and development in the team. You will be a culture bearer and inspirer for an environment where professional pride and job satisfaction go hand in hand.

Your main areas of responsibility

• Contribute to and translate strategies and action plans into concrete initiatives that support the discipline's development and business.
• Take on the role of senior specialist, project manager or discipline leader on key projects and ensure high quality in the deliverables.
• Create overview of competencies and capacity in the team and ensure the right staffing through recruitment, development and optimization of resources.
• Develop and coach employees through clear goals, ongoing dialogue and constructive feedback.
• Support an inclusive and trust-based working environment where diversity is seen as a value.

Leadership with direction and human insight

You believe that leadership is about inspiring and setting a clear and meaningful direction – and at the same time creating space for others to grow and take responsibility. You may already have leadership experience, or you may be facing your first formal leadership responsibility. The most important thing is that you are willing, curious and brave enough to step into the role and develop yourself as a leader.

You create following through dialogue, presence and clear expectations. You thrive with responsibility, give constructive feedback and are motivated by seeing others succeed. At the same time you have a view of both business and quality and are motivated to translate ambitions and strategy into concrete action in everyday life.

In addition you have

• A relevant engineering education background or equivalent.
• In-depth knowledge of infrastructure, roads and/or airport geometry.
• Experience with resource and project management.
• Solid business understanding and the ability to translate strategy into practice.
• Good ability to communicate messages clearly and to handle relationships with different stakeholders.
• A genuine motivation to build diverse and high-performing teams.

Have you got more questions?

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Vibeke Poulsen, Head of Engineering, Transportation West at [email protected].

You can also get to know us even better on our website, www.cowi.com, where you can read more about our projects, strategy, goals and everyday life at COWI.

A workplace and much more

At COWI we work together with our clients to create a sustainable world. We do this by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better future tomorrow. Therefore we strive for the majority of our turnover to come from activities that help our clients move toward sustainability.

We value diversity and development and create an environment where there is room for everyone, and where we have fun. For it is precisely this that brings out the best in you – both at work and at home. With offices primarily in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, North America and India, we are today 7,500 employees bringing our technical capabilities in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

Diversity is fundamental to COWI, and inclusion is the key

We are committed to creating a respectful and fair working environment where all employees feel a sense of belonging and experience equal opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where different perspectives and beliefs are seen as strengths. We consider diversity and inclusion in all relevant decisions and processes, and when we assemble teams and forums. We do it because it is part of our values, and because it is the right thing to do.