Technical Director

Join a global professional services leader, committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation.

GHD is one of the world’s leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. 

Privately owned by our people, GHD provides engineering, architecture, environmental and construction services to private and public sector clients across five continents. Focused on creating lasting community benefit, our connected global network of over 12,000 people delivers projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics.

The Role

As a Technical Director – Consulting within our growing Commercial Advisory business, you will play a pivotal role in building and leading a new Strategy & Transformation – Energy Transition capability. This is a senior market-facing leadership position for an experienced consulting professional who combines deep sector expertise with strong commercial acumen, transformational delivery capability and strategic client leadership.

You will work with executive-level stakeholders across the energy, utilities, infrastructure and public sectors, helping organisations respond to the strategic, commercial, regulatory and operational challenges of the energy transition. You will shape and win complex consulting engagements, provide visible market leadership and help establish a distinctive advisory offering that supports clients through decarbonisation, infrastructure investment, energy system transformation and organisational change.

This role combines senior client advisory responsibilities with business leadership, market development, capability growth and people leadership. It offers a unique opportunity to influence the future direction of GHD’s energy consulting business while delivering meaningful outcomes for clients and communities.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide senior leadership for the Strategy & Transformation – Energy Transition capability, helping define market priorities, propositions and growth opportunities.
• Originate, shape and win strategic consulting engagements across energy transition strategy, commercial advisory, energy policy, system planning, infrastructure development and decarbonisation programmes.
• Lead complex advisory and transformation engagements from opportunity identification through to successful delivery, ensuring excellence in quality, commercial performance and client outcomes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders including executives, regulators, government bodies, investors, major infrastructure owners and utility organisations.
• Provide strategic oversight across programmes involving operating model design, investment planning, implementation roadmaps, delivery governance, risk management, compliance and benefits realisation.
• Build and strengthen strategic client relationships, supporting account growth, pipeline development, major pursuits and long-term client partnerships.
• Bring together multidisciplinary teams across advisory, engineering, environment, digital and project delivery disciplines to develop integrated and commercially effective solutions.
• Lead the preparation of high-quality client deliverables including business cases, transformation strategies, implementation programmes, investment plans and executive-level recommendations.
• Represent GHD in the market through industry events, thought leadership, strategic partnerships, client forums and business development activities.
• Mentor, coach and develop consultants and advisory leaders, contributing to capability development, recruitment, knowledge sharing and a high-performing team culture.

Key Skills & Experience

• Typically 12+ years of relevant consulting, advisory or senior industry experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure, sustainability, policy, commercial strategy or business transformation.
• Strong credibility operating at executive and board level, with the ability to engage, influence and challenge senior decision-makers across complex stakeholder environments.
• Proven track record of originating, shaping, winning and delivering major consulting engagements or transformation programmes within energy, infrastructure or regulated sectors.
• Deep understanding of the commercial, regulatory, policy and operational forces driving the UK energy transition, including decarbonisation, energy system planning, resilience, infrastructure investment and delivery risk.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex client challenges into compelling propositions, investment cases and practical implementation programmes.
• Experience developing strategic client relationships, growing pipelines and supporting sales and business development activities within a consulting or advisory environment.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience managing project performance, contractual arrangements and business outcomes.
• Experience building teams, developing capability and contributing to the growth of consulting practices or advisory businesses.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills, including experience presenting to executive audiences and leading senior workshops.
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to mobilise multidisciplinary teams, build consensus and bring the full breadth of GHD’s capabilities to clients.

Why Join GHD?

This is a unique opportunity to help shape and lead a new consulting capability at the centre of the energy transition. You will have the platform to influence strategy, strengthen client relationships, build a growing team and contribute to projects that support more sustainable, resilient and investable energy systems.

As part of GHD’s employee-owned business, you will work alongside leading technical and advisory professionals across the globe, combining strategy with delivery to solve some of the most significant challenges facing the energy sector. You will be empowered to shape the growth of the practice, drive meaningful client outcomes and create lasting impact for communities and future generations.

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 your 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.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.

Inclusion is hugely important to us, and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wider variety of benefits to support you, including 25 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working. We will advocate for your profession development and provide access to formal education through the GHD Business School and practical application through technical delivery. We actively promote inclusion and equity focussed initiatives, with the example of our STEMAZING partnership, which offers STEM outreach programmes for women.

Working Location

GHD operates a Hybrid Working Standard across the Enterprise, with a minimum of three days per week at a GHD office. There is a preference for this role to be based in GHD’s London office, although we also have a number of other offices across the UK.

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