Technical Project Manager (Highways)
Job Summary
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:
We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change urbanization and digitization trends are requiring todays mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the worlds growing population. We design connected sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies and optimize the mobility of people and good. In Engineering youll create some of the worlds most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together. We are seeking a Technical Manager (Senior/Principal) to join our Highways team playing a key role in delivering complex infrastructure projects while supporting the growth of our people and client relationships.
In this role you will take ownership for the delivery of highways projects or work packages ensuring successful outcomes across quality cost and programme while balancing technical excellence with commercial and contractual awareness. You will lead teams of engineers across multiple locations overseeing the design of complex major highways schemes taking ownership of the design and design reviews.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership and direction across all stages of the project lifecycle
Take responsibility for delivering project outcomes in line with scope programme cost and quality expectations
Promote a positive culture of health safety and wellbeing
Manage the delivery of contractual obligations either as Project Manager or Design Manager working collaboratively within the Arcadis Business Management System (BMS)
Contribute to the effective management of scope risk and change ensuring impacts are understood and proactively addressed
Support the management of project risk opportunities and change contributing to robust decision-making
Lead and support project teams (typically 515 engineers and technicians) including sub-consultants
Oversee resource planning and workload management to ensure efficient delivery
Build and maintain strong client relationships contributing to a high standard of client care
Support quality assurance verification checking and interdisciplinary design reviews
Contribute to proposals technical development and continuous improvement initiatives
Qualifications & Experience:
Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (or equivalent)
Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer (or equivalent)
Experience delivering highways or infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle including option assessment statutory processes preliminary and detailed design
Strong practical understanding of contract scope risk and change management within project delivery
Experience working with or understanding of NEC4 contracts would be advantageous
Demonstrable experience in leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating delivery
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Commercial awareness and an understanding of project performance drivers
Commitment to continuous professional development and industry engagement
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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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