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Project Management Professional (Rail Infrastructure)

Arcadis


Job Location:

Manchester - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 24 September 2026 (5 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 22 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

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

We are more than 34000 people in over 30 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:

Are you an experienced project management professional looking to help deliver major Rail infrastructure projects

We are seeking talented Assistant Project Managers Project Managers and Senior Project Managers to join our growing rail team. Working across a diverse portfolio of current and upcoming rail infrastructure and asset protection projects you will support or lead the safe and successful development and delivery of rail infrastructure and externally funded schemes.

The level of appointment will reflect your experience leadership capability and the complexity of projects you can independently manage.

This is an opportunity to contribute to challenging rail programmes and projects working alongside multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe responsible and sustainable outcomes.

Whether you are building your career as an Assistant Project Manager or already leading complex programmes at Senior Project Manager level we will match the opportunity and level of responsibility to your skills and experience.

Role accountabilities:

Depending on your experience you will support or lead multidisciplinary teams delivering projects across the operational railway. Your responsibilities may include:

  • Managing project scope delivery plans milestones dependencies and project controls
  • Supporting or leading rail infrastructure asset protection and third-party schemes
  • Coordinating interfaces between clients contractors operators asset owners and technical disciplines
  • Managing project risks issues change governance and assurance requirements
  • Monitoring programme cost quality safety and overall project performance
  • Working within rail project lifecycles and governance processes including PACE or equivalent
  • Supporting commercial management contract administration procurement and budget control
  • Communicating clear project updates recommendations and decisions to stakeholders
  • Leading project teams and mentoring colleagues at the more senior levels

The roles provide the opportunity to work across multidisciplinary projects where safety railway interfaces stakeholder relationships and successful delivery are critical.

Qualifications & Experience:

Previous rail industry experience is essential for every appointment level.

You will bring:

  • Experience supporting or delivering projects within the rail industry
  • An understanding of the operational railway and railway infrastructure
  • Knowledge of project management principles including scope schedule cost risk quality governance and change
  • Strong organisational communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Commercial awareness and an understanding of budgets contracts and project controls
  • The ability to manage competing priorities and maintain accurate project information
  • A collaborative safety-focused and solutions-led approach

Experience involving asset protection third-party schemes possessions and isolations sponsorship PACE signalling digital railway timetable interfaces or infrastructure assurance would be particularly valuable.

Knowledge of areas such as CDM Regulations CSM-RA Network Change access agreements or rail safety assurance would also be advantageous.

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:

Unclear Seniority


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

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