Arcadis Warrington, England, United Kingdom
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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. 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:
Our Water Optimisation team is actively looking to recruit for a Design Manager to join our Design Management capability as the team looks to tackle some of the UK’s most technically challenging projects and AMP8 programmes. We are renowned for our expertise in delivering these complex schemes and collaborate closely with some of the country’s most prominent and well-known water companies and contractors.
As a Design Manager, you will lead our teams and work on a variety of projects across the UK. Reporting to the Framework or Technical Director’s, the successful candidate will provide dynamic technical leadership co-ordinating multi-disciplinary teams to meet client expectations. You will have a practical technical understanding of water engineering matters, appreciation of commercial and contract management, and experience of managing water projects/programmes of work. The role necessitates the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries, both internally and externally to Arcadis, and offers a pathway towards senior management positions.
Dimensions of the job:
* Responsible for delivery of medium to large scale, complex multi-disciplinary projects or elements of major projects in own discipline with fee typically in range of £1M+.
* Demonstrable design manager capability and applied sector experience, including leading, managing and coordinating teams. Strong consulting skills including project management and client relationship management at senior management level. Experience in managing business relationships at senior management level.
Role accountabilities:
* Technically lead and coordinate multi-disciplined wastewater or water treatment / infrastructure projects and programmes of work throughout the design life cycle
* Collaborate with key clients, partner organisations and supply chain maintaining Arcadis’ reputation for high quality, innovative design and a positive client experience
* Build and sustain adequate resource for the delivery of the project or programme and support identify strategic recruitment needs
* Work with the Framework Director, Project Manager and Commercial team to manage the programme, ensure commercial rigour, deliver profitable outputs and resolve project issues efficiently
* Provide Line Management, career direction and pastoral care to team members, taking a proactive role in developing them to their full potential, leading by example to achieve sector/divisional goals and championing a high quality, innovative and entrepreneurial culture
* Promote a culture that is proactive on Safety, Health, Quality and Sustainability matters
* Promote a culture of innovation, helping to develop engineering technology and continuous improvement systems
* Performing other duties as required from time to time by your Client Manager or Arcadis Senior Leadership Team
* Work with other Arcadis teams to foster collaboration, ensuring the collective knowledge and experience is shared across all
Qualifications & Experience:
* Degree in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Process Engineering or other directly related degree
* Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as ICE, IMechE, IET, IChemE, or CIWEM
* Relevant water industry experience
* Takes accountability and leads by example
* Has excellent people management skills, ensuring that the best talent is used to meet the resource demands for the projected workload
* Extensive experience of contract, commercial, project & programme management
* Extensive experience of working on complex design and delivery frameworks and / or design and build projects
* Is digitally curious and/or proficient
* An excellent communicator at all levels who works effectively with people from other organisations, backgrounds, and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience to best effect
* Demonstrable experience of building and sustaining successful teams
* Exhibit behaviours consistent with the Arcadis vision and values
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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