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 Rail Consultancy Programme and Project Management team is growing, and you’ll be working on some of the biggest, most iconic rail projects imaginable. It’s challenging, rewarding and will take your career to the next level. 

We are looking for a Project Manager with a Civil Engineering background, you'll be a self-starter and someone with excellent communication skills to be able to engage with clients on project delivery and adding value.

To do this role you’ll need energy, agility and an eye for detail – as well as being able to deliver for multiple clients every day. Join us and you’ll find a people first environment where you’re supported every step of the way and encouraged to build the career that’s right for you.

Role accountabilities:

You'll work within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans, schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets. You'll deliver/assist to manage small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines with the ability to present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards.

Data is key here at Arcadis, we analyse and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use  the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making along with our use knowledge and experience to review project processes and policies, providing advice to support management in developing and improving processes and systems.

We look for people who interact effectively across the organisation, completing complex professional level tasks for others in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations, advising colleagues on issues relating to own projects, providing subject matter advice in order to support delivery and ensure there is alignment between policy and operational practice, collaborating with stakeholders and third party contractors, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations

Qualifications & Experience:

Degree in Civil or Structural engineering Previous experience in Rail sector environment  Previous experience as a Project Manager or Assistant Project Manager on rail sector projects Experience of managing the scoping and design process.   Stakeholder Management skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills Focus on client experience and adding Value to the client. Focus on delivery of benefits and outcomes to the Client. Exposure to Programme Management would be an advantage. Working within and influencing a wider project team/organisation towards a common goal.   Membership and/or working towards Chartership of the Association for Project Management (APM) or other similar professionally recognised status.

 

Why Become an Arcadian?

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.

  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.     Join Arcadis. Create a legacy.    

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