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.

We are recruiting for a Project Manager to join our UK Climate Adaptation team, managing a portfolio of projects across water, civil engineering and environment. As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you’ll oversee delivery from mobilisation through to close-out; managing scope, programme, cost, risk and quality to achieve measurable client outcomes. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders to deliver transformational results for multiple clients every day.

Our team delivers flood defence and adaptation schemes and supports clients to protect and enhance environmental outcomes across England. As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll manage Water, Civil Engineering and Environment projects with a strong focus on NEC4 contracts, providing contractual advice and leading contract administration through the appraisal phase. You’ll work closely with clients, contractors, consultants and third parties to maintain robust governance and ensure safe, compliant delivery.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanisation, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Project manage a range of civil engineering, water and environment projects using the NEC4 Professional Service Contract (PSC) and/or the Engineering and Construction Short Contract (ESCS) including contract administration in accordance with the role of the Service/Project Manager on several NEC contracts.

• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders; clients, contractors, consultants and third-party stakeholders on each project to ensure delivery is on time, within budget and to a high quality and in accordance with the NEC contract you will be administering.

• Provide high level advice and support to resolve issues during appraisal, ensuring that decisions are made on sound technical grounds in line with best practice and required standards & timeframes.

• Monitor progress of work, identify risks in the delivery of priorities and implement timely resolution of issues, to ensure appropriate reallocation of time, finance and effort and enhancement of the service.

• Provide good quality management reporting on service delivery, to support the planning of operational work, inform business decisions and provide a sound basis from which to communication with and influence internal / external partners.

• Lead or support project teams to achieve well planned and managed integrated solutions that progress effective change and improvement in the organisation and support the best environmental outcomes.

• Provide effective leadership to health, safety and wellbeing matters by actively promoting health & safety awareness and ensuring the provision of safe working practices.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience of project management and PSC contract management to enable successful delivery of larger-scale, complex and demanding projects according to agreed outcomes. 

• Civil Engineering, Water, Environment, Infrastructure project experience.

• Track record of leading integrated and multi-disciplinary project management teams.

• Membership of; Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Association of Project Manager’s (APM) or Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)

• Desired: Flood Risk Management experience and/or a background within Civil Engineering

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.

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