Water Infrastructure Program Manager

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 people in over 70 countries dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking an accomplishedWater Infrastructure Program Managerto lead transformative water programs across the southwest. The role will also be critical in development and strategic positioning for a range of client programs. This includes 20 billion flagship initiatives aimed at enhancing southern Californias regional water resilience sustainability and public health by expanding potable reuse infrastructure and operations for a prominent municipal department.

The Program Manager will lead complex programs that involve multiple phases each requiring detailed technical evaluation siting studies and rigorous environmental review to optimize water program delivery. The Program Manager will oversee all phases of planning design construction stakeholder engagement and delivery ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements budgetary constraints and strategic objectives. Additionally they will provide leadership to a large multidisciplinary team and ensure successful delivery in alignment with client goals.

Role accountabilities:

The Water Infrastructure Program Manager will lead the delivery of a large-scale water infrastructure initiative implementing best-in-class program management practices while developing and communicating a clear program vision objectives and roadmap. This role requires navigating a complex utility organization and fostering a collaborative safety-focused and innovative team culture. Responsibilities include strategic planning across all project phases aligning program goals with organizational priorities and sustainability targets and integrating multiple workstreams for timely and budget-conscious execution.

The Water Infrastructure Program Manager will build and mentor a multidisciplinary team define roles and expectations and promote a positive high-performance environment. Stakeholder engagement is key with the manager serving as the primary liaison to clients regulators community groups and partners ensuring transparent communication and proactive issue resolution. Resource coordination involves optimizing personnel funding and technology across the program identifying gaps and implementing solutions. Performance management includes monitoring progress managing risks and establishing governance frameworks and KPIs for benchmarking. The role also champions continuous improvement by enhancing processes and integrating lessons learned while maintaining robust reporting systems to provide timely updates and ensure accountability.

Key Attributes:

The ideal Water Infrastructure Program Manager brings extensive experience managing large complex infrastructure or water sector programs with a strong background in environmental impact assessments permitting and regulatory compliance across federal state and local levels. You are well-versed in digital project management tools real-time monitoring systems and data-driven decision-making. With expert knowledge of program management methodologies you demonstrate superior leadership communication and stakeholder engagement skills. Experience working with public sector clients or major municipal infrastructure projects is highly preferred. This leader excels in building consensus among diverse stakeholdersincluding regulatory agencies municipal partners elected officials and community groupsand is adept at translating technical information for varied audiences. Proven success in managing large multidisciplinary teams and significant program budgets rounds out their profile.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in engineering project management or a related field
• Advanced degree Professional Engineer (PE) license and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification strongly preferred.

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its 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.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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.

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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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Arcadis offers benefits for full-time and part-time positions. These benefits include medical dental and vision EAP 401K STD LTD AD&D life insurance paid parental leave reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits adoption assistance and tuition offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. This position is eligible for participating in a company bonus program. The salary range for this position is $157227-$275148. Actual salaries will vary on several factors such as experience education budget internal equity project and location.

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