Senior Design Manager
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Job Summary
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 are looking for a Senior Design Manager with experience in working on large complex projects in the Industrial Manufacturing and/or Technology industries who can work at the business end of design. You will be part of new Design Management team within the Arcadis Places Design Practice. Both of which are on an exciting journey and looking to expand their resources.
A key function of the role is to provide leadership to the design teams (both internal and external) to meet the Clients scope considering budget and resource requirements alongside required timescales. Ability to engage appropriately and positively influence our Clients and their stakeholders is essential.
You will be leading a team of Design Managers on projects and therefore having the ability to direct and plan these resources for the betterment of the project is key. You will need to be able to identify design and project risks throughout the project lifecycle and confidently and coherently coordinate design activities to reduce risks and meet the Clients scope. Proven ability in providing a positive direction for the projects that you work on is essential.
Role accountabilities:
- Provide positive leadership for a team of design managers on projects with an ability to resource projects appropriately.
- To work with the Arcadis Project Manager to achieve an optimal outcome for the client and Arcadis.
- To manage the technical delivery and integration of multi-disciplinary design projects providing leadership to inspire direction and delivery excellence.
- To drive optimal and high-quality design decisions made through promoting a culture of collaboration challenge innovation and creativity across the whole delivery team.
- Understand and experienced in Project Management and use of the tools/techniques.
- To use interpersonal and influencing skills to support successful outcomes.
- Work in an environment of constantly changing priorities and managing these priorities to enable completion of projects whilst delivering the day-to-day tasks in the required time frames.
- Understand the challenges associated with multi-disciplined complex engineering problems and can plan manage and implement solutions.
Qualifications & Experience:
- BA/BSc/BEng or MA/MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline
- Chartered or equivalent professional accreditation
- Previous Design/Design Management experience within a Client/Consultancy environment and working with a Contractor.
- Knowledge and experience of BIM led design and Autodesk suite of products.
- Strong Focus on Integration Stakeholder & Communication Management Skills
- Awareness of using programme software applications
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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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Lighting Design
- FileMaker
- Mobile Marketing
- Sketchup
- Relationship Management
- Adobe Photoshop
- Autocad
- Adobe Illustrator
- Team Management
- Revit
- Experience Design
- Grasshopper
About Company
Arcadis is the leading global design & consultancy firm for natural and built assets. We are more than 27,000 people, in over 70 countries, who are dedicated to improving quality of life. We do so by developing innovative solutions to create liveable cities, to establish a people-cent ... View more
