Overview
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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. With the power of many curious minds, we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description: We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Associate Project Manager to join our Water team, playing a pivotal role in supporting Capital Programmes in the Water Industry. This exciting opportunity involves working closely with a large multi-disciplinary team on a flagship water infrastructure project, right at the client's site. If you’re ready to drive impactful change and lead projects of scale, we want to hear from you.
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. 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. We are facing climate change, rapid urbanisation, and loss of biodiversity, and we are here to protect the environment and water resources for future generations.
Role accountabilities
* Lead a multidisciplinary team, managing people to deliver outputs and standards of delivery, mentor and develop colleagues to achieve project objectives and continuously improve results.
* Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of team members, ensuring compliance with Arcadis’ risk and compliance policy and codes of conduct.
* Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service.
* Analyse and compile a range of complex data and documents, providing advice and recommendations to contribute to project decision‑making.
* Develop processes and review policies for own project, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
* Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for efficiencies and collaboration across projects, ensuring client satisfaction.
* Act as a technical expert within the project, providing subject matter guidance to colleagues to support successful delivery.
* Manage relationships with clients and third‑party contractors to keep all parties informed of progress and expectations.
* Establish and promote a health, safety and environmental culture, including opportunities to continuously improve.
* Embrace digital and sustainable solutions in day‑to‑day project delivery.
* Work with pursuits team to identify and pursue new project opportunities with new and existing clients.
Qualifications & Experience
* Relevant project management experience including experience of managing and leading teams.
* Experience delivering portfolios of programmes or projects, ideally in the water sector.
* Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
* Subject matter expertise in own discipline.
* Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with and influence external stakeholders.
* Experience leading and implementing complex business change solutions.
* Experience managing relationships at senior-management level.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with a focus on client relationship management.
* Experience in leading a Health and Safety performance culture within construction projects.
Other requirements
* Line management responsibilities, assisting and developing team members to their full potential.
* Driving license.
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 help deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.
Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to bring your best self to work every day. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of how we improve quality of life, and we work with six ED&I workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
* Industries: Professional Services
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