Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 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.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Chartered status or working towards chartership.
• Experience in successfully delivering portfolios of programs or projects, ideally in the water sector and / or regulated industry
• Strong commercial approach with a solid understanding of contract management, experience with IChemE or NEC Contract Management is a plus.
• Ability to build and manage key relationships with external stakeholders.
• Experience in making risk decisions and understanding implications to minimize consequences for projects.
• Proven experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Relevant engineering degree; postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.
• Project management qualifications (e.g., PMP, Prince2) are preferred.
• Experience in water and wastewater projects is desirable

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Hybrid working with requirement for client travel between London and Reading areas
  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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ROLE DESCRIPTION:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to support ongoing Capital Programmes for a key player in the Water Industry. Take the lead in driving multi-disciplinary projects within a dynamic and regulated industry environment. In this role, you will guide project teams through every phase of the project life cycle, ensuring optimal business solutions for our clients. Collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders, both internal and external, will be key to delivering projects to the highest standards. Your expertise will be crucial in managing and assuring the performance of design and build contractors, ensuring project outcomes are achieved within cost, time, and quality parameters from design to commissioning.
As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you’ll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.
Our Resilience team works 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 urbanization, 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:

• Deliver sustainable financial out-performance against approved budgets.
• Manage all contract matters commercially to achieve optimal outcomes.
• Develop and deliver optimized projects to meet all regulatory, statutory, and internal outputs, deadlines, and targets.
• Provide successful technical solutions that deliver optimal value for money on a capital and whole life cost basis.
• Oversee performance management of service providers to ensure service levels and value for money are met.
• Proactively manage project risks and issues to minimize impact and maximize opportunities.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders for project related matters.
• Ensure compliance with quality systems and processes so outcomes meet all standards.
• Establish and promote a culture of health, safety, and environmental responsibility.
• Embrace digital and sustainable solutions in day-to-day project delivery.