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budget, and to the highest quality standards.\n\n Project management, technical leadership, and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK colleagues including:\nAct as the ‘technical face’ of the India-based Development (DI) - Roads team within P&D, P&C.\nProject, programme and financial management\nManage the team and processes to ensure the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs/deliverables from a variety of roads related disciplines meet internal and client requirements and quality assurance standards.\nInterfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams\nProvide Technical leadership and direction for the GCC Development team and ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK P&C P&D business\nLead to prepare design solutions and develop methodologies, technical reports for various design stages for roads projects\nManage consultants in the preparation of design of alignments, junctions, public 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