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 a skilled Project Manager to join our Education sector team, delivering projects for Higher Education and museum clients across the UK.
You'll manage a varied workload—often juggling several projects—bringing strong technical knowledge and broad project management experience, particularly in higher education. This client‑facing role focuses on excellent service delivery, effective time management and aligning effort with budgets to ensure profitable, compliant outcomes.
Role accountabilities
* Oversee agreed scopes of work and manage team or contractor workloads to meet programme milestones
* Produce and track plans, schedules and budgets within established financial systems; report variances promptly
* Deliver multiple small‑to‑medium projects, ensuring resources and budgets meet deadlines and scope
* Identify and escalate risks or issues to senior management to protect delivery and compliance
* Provide guidance on behaviours and compliance processes across the team
* Analyse data to identify trends and make recommendations that inform project decisions
* Review processes using industry best practice and advise senior management on improvements
* Collaborate across the organisation to meet internal customer expectations
* Maintain regular client and stakeholder communication to manage expectations
Qualifications & Experience
* Experience managing medium‑complexity projects, ideally within Higher Education
* Laboratory project experience desirable
* Strong teamwork and client‑facing skills
* MAPM or equivalent project management qualification
* Commercially aware with excellent time and cost management
If you're a technically strong, client‑focused Project Manager ready to make an impact in the education and cultural sectors, apply now.
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 maximise 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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