Job Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

As a Project Manager – Construction Delivery, you will support and coordinate the successful delivery of construction-related activities within complex, highly regulated programme environments. The role is focused on providing construction delivery leadership, coordinating and delivering project management capability across defined packages, site areas or technical interfaces.

This is a management-level role, working across client, contractor, consultant and multidisciplinary delivery teams. You will help ensure construction activities are planned, coordinated and delivered in line with agreed scope, programme, cost, quality, safety and governance requirements.

The role requires a balanced approach between site engagement, project management discipline and stakeholder coordination. You will be expected to understand delivery constraints, support practical and technical issue resolution, maintain strong relationships with delivery partners, and provide clear reporting and recommendations to support effective decision-making.

You will act as a key interface between construction delivery, project management, engineering, commercial, project controls, H&S, quality and wider stakeholder teams. You will help integrate construction delivery into wider programme governance, supporting a collaborative, controlled and outcome-focused delivery environment.

You could be part of establishing and supporting major nuclear programmes, with an opportunity to contribute to nationally significant infrastructure and energy transition outcomes. With this being a fast-paced and evolving environment, you should be comfortable working with uncertainty, ambiguity and change.

Role Accountabilities

• Construction Delivery Leadership
• Lead and support the delivery of defined construction packages, site areas or interfaces, ensuring alignment with agreed scope, programme, cost, quality, safety and regulatory requirements.
• Provide visible leadership across contractors, delivery partners and multidisciplinary teams, setting clear expectations for collaboration, accountability and reliable delivery.
• Coordinate construction delivery activities, ensuring works are appropriately planned, sequenced, monitored and progressed in line with project governance and delivery priorities.
• Identify and help resolve delivery constraints, interface issues and risks, ensuring actions, decisions and escalations are clearly recorded and managed.
• Construction Readiness, Assurance and Close-Out
• Support construction readiness, delivery planning and assurance activities to help confirm works are appropriately prepared, coordinated and progressed.
• Work with engineering, H&S, quality and delivery teams to support safe, compliant and practical construction delivery.
• Support the review and close-out of construction evidence (i.e. Inspection Test Plan adherence), handover information and completion documentation required to demonstrate compliant delivery.
• Support the identification and resolution of technical queries, non-conformances, change items and field engineering issues.
• Commercial, Contract and Performance Management
• Support the management of construction delivery performance against agreed scope, programme, cost, quality and productivity expectations.
• Work with commercial and project controls teams to report progress, forecast positions, emerging pressures and delivery implications.
• Support contract and commercial management activities, including change control, early warnings, compensation events and contractor performance reviews where applicable.
• Provide clear input to reporting, governance forums and decision-making processes, ensuring delivery risks and commercial implications are understood.
• Interface and Stakeholder Leadership
• Act as a key interface between construction delivery, project management, engineering, commercial, project controls, H&S, quality, contractors and client stakeholders.
• Lead and support the management of construction interfaces across assigned packages, work areas or delivery scopes.
• Build effective working relationships with contractors, clients, internal teams and delivery partners to support collaborative and timely delivery.
• Maintain clear and timely communication across relevant stakeholders, ensuring construction activity is understood, coordinated and appropriately reported.
• Team Development and Continuous Improvement
• Contribute to the development of delivery teams through coaching, knowledge sharing and role modelling of Arcadis behaviours.
• Capture and apply lessons learned to improve construction delivery performance, safety, productivity and assurance outcomes.
• Promote a delivery culture focused on safe execution, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and reliable delivery performance.
• Support the development of scalable construction delivery capability within the Nuclear business, strengthening Arcadis’ position in construction management services across major nuclear and infrastructure programmes.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent experience in construction management, engineering, project management or a related discipline.
• Experience in construction delivery, construction management, project management or site coordination within complex infrastructure, energy, engineering or regulated environments.
• Good understanding of construction sequencing, logistics, site coordination, short-term planning and safe systems of work.
• Working knowledge of CDM Regulations, construction safety management and safe delivery in complex project environments.
• Experience working with contractors, subcontractors, delivery partners or multidisciplinary project teams to support agreed safety, quality, programme and delivery outcomes.
• Ability to coordinate defined construction packages, site areas or technical interfaces across construction, engineering, commercial, project controls, H&S and quality teams.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to identify, evidence and escalate construction risks, constraints, interface issues and delivery blockers through clear reporting.Working knowledge of project governance, change control, performance reporting and cost or schedule management.
• Awareness of contract and commercial management activities, preferably under NEC ECC or a similar construction contract environment.
• Eligible to complete BPSS and work at OFFICIAL level, with existing UKSV Security Clearance or willingness and eligibility to obtain clearance.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.