Project Manager Local Government

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:

We have an opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Local Government team delivering projects across London and the South-East. Youll be managing service delivery and work on a range of exciting projects including a range of housing development and regeneration projects and programmes at all stages.

As a Project Manager you will work to deliver excellent client outcomes by managing project teams delivering regeneration housing mixed use and new settlement schemes predominantly but not exclusively to local authority clients.

The team are currently working on several housing led mixed-use regeneration projects with projects sized 100-350 units and construction values of 40m-385m.

Role accountabilities:

• The day-to-day management of high quality profitable services to clients and working with colleagues to manage projects and programmes from inception through feasibility design and planning stages construction completion and occupation/operation
• Helping to create project plans and then executing and managing them effectively for clients managing risk change and programme delivery effectively
• Working with colleagues to assemble and manage multi-disciplinary design and consultancy teams often with a mixture of Arcadis colleagues sub-consultants and consultants appointed by the client
• Acting as Contract Administrator Employers Agent for JCT contracts or Project Manager for NEC contracts.

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

• A relevant professional qualification
• Experience of project managing housing regeneration mixed-use and/or new settlement projects in London from inception to completion including planning processes land use and development viability
• A track record of project delivery excellence and client care
• Experience of working in or for London local authority clients or other registered providers
• Experience of effective and collaborative management of multi-disciplinary teams (internal and external)
• Ability and desire toengage effectively with stakeholders including a broad range of local authority clients statutory bodies funding bodies developers residents and users
• Experience of public sector procurement strategy processes contract negotiation and compliance
• Experience managing third-party contractors
• Knowledge and understanding of project management and employers agent servicers at all stages of projects with a particular focus on design and construction.
• A hunger to learn and develop and a drive to deliver excellent outcomes for our clients.
• Ability to incorporate innovative solutions into regeneration housing and mixed use schemes.
• A digital mindset with the ability to use technology to better manage projects

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.

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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