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.
Role description:
We're 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. From civil and mechanical to electrical engineering, this project offers a diverse range of challenges and opportunities. If you're ready to drive impactful change and lead projects of scale then 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. 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:
* Lead a multidisciplinary team, managing people to deliver the required outputs and standards of delivery and/or mentor, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of colleagues in order to achieve project objectives and continuously improve results.
* Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all 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, using knowledge and analysis conducted by others to review and assess analysis and provide advice and recommendations to contribute to project decision-making.
* Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to develop processes and review policies for own project, ensuring changes are in line with strategic business objectives.
* Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders in order to identify opportunities for improved efficiencies and collaboration across projects, to ensure client satisfaction.
* Act as a technical expert within own project, providing subject matter advice to colleagues within the project, in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives.
* Manage relationships with clients and direct third-party contractors, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project 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 client(s)
Qualifications & Experience:
* Relevant project management experience including experience of managing and leading teams.
* Experience of successfully 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 of leading and implementing complex business change solutions
* Experience in managing business 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 participating in developing yourself and other team members to their full potential.
* Driving license
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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