Climate Resilience & Adaptation – Technical Integration Lead

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Climate Resilience & Adaptation – Technical Integration Lead. You will collaborate with other leaders across the business and be expected to influence the delivery of major projects across our markets to ensure safe, resilient and regenerative outcomes for the organisations and communities who depend on our advice and design. The role will be UK-based but the applicant is expected to work with teams and clients across Europe, India, Middle East and Africa as well as the UK, supporting locally led teams with specialist input and additional resource.

You’ll be part of a global network of experts, collaborating across disciplines and regions to deliver meaningful change.

This role will be based in any Arup UK office Location.

You will play a key role in delivering Arup’s Total Design approach—part of our new Global Strategy—which anchors our work in technical excellence curiosity, collaboration and ensures we bring the broadest context to our projects and deliver on our purpose to shape a better world. Embedding and integrating specialist disciplines (climate data and science, climate and natural hazard risk assessment, resilience & adaptation consulting) into strategic pursuits and major projects including Environmental Impact Assessments, resilience-led design, climate resilient asset management and operations.

Grow our ‘beyond compliance’ services to ensure resilient outcomes across all of our projects. Strengthen our own resilience, with a focus on technical excellence and rigour, ensuring continuity and depth of expertise, including development of junior team members.

Work with Skills Leaders and Project Directors to deliver integrated and aligned climate resilience for all our projects, mitigating risks to Arup, our clients and our key stakeholders associated with the impacts of climate change. Co‑ordinate across geographies to ensure a unified and borderless approach to delivery.

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.

We are looking for individuals with the following skills:

• A Master’s degree in a relevant field and vast experience in climate change resilience and adaptation with a suitable professional registration.
• Deep technical expertise in climate risk and adaptation strategies for infrastructure and urban planning.
• Track record of leadership, project success and commercial acumen.
• Strong understanding of planning policy, international standards and regulatory requirements for climate adaptation and reporting.

Please email Karin Spies at . Please note, to ensure we remain GDPR compliant do not send your CV directly to us via this email.

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 recognizes 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…