Associate Project Manager (Universities)

As an Arcadian you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 34000 people in over 30 countries dedicated to improving quality of life.

Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds together we can continue to solve the worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Associate Project Manager to join our team focusing on Higher Education clients across the UK with a particular emphasis on construction capital projects refurbishment fit-out infrastructure and estate development programmes.

This role is ideal for a candidate with a strong background in construction project management who is confident delivering projects from early planning and procurement through to site delivery handover and close out. Experience working in complex stakeholder environments ideally within the Higher Education sector is essential.

The role involves managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously with a focus on service delivery client relationship management account leadership and bid support. The successful candidate will be confident in direct client engagement commercially aware and capable of managing time cost quality and risk to meet deadlines and maintain profitability.

Role Accountabilities

• Lead construction and capital projects for Higher Education clients from planning through to handover
• Manage budgets programme risk governance and contract compliance
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams consultants and contractors
• Build strong client relationships and support account growth
• Contribute to bid writing tenders and proposal development
• Drive high-quality efficient and commercially successful delivery

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven Project Manager experience in construction or the built environment
• Experience delivering capital projects refurbishment fit-out or infrastructure schemes
• Higher Education project experience strongly preferred
• Strong client management commercial and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience managing complex projects in live environments
• Bid writing or account management experience desirable
• Laboratory or specialist technical building experience advantageous

Candidates must demonstrate professional project management experience and have ideally supported higher education sector clients.

Ready to Apply

If you have the construction project management experience and Higher Education sector background were looking for wed like to hear from you. Apply now to be part of a team delivering impactful projects across the UK.

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.

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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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