Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 36,000 people across more than 70 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving the world’s most complex challenges through collaboration and innovation.

Our Water team is tackling some of the UK’s most technically challenging projects and AMP8 programmes. We are renowned for delivering complex schemes and work closely with prominent water companies and contractors. This exciting opportunity is for a Principal Civil Engineer to lead a growing team supporting multiple Frameworks across the UK, covering Wastewater and Clean Water projects, both non-infrastructure and infrastructure.

The role involves client liaison, technical leadership, governance, and effective collaboration across organisational boundaries internally and externally. It offers a pathway towards senior management positions within our Resilience Global Business Area, where we focus on protecting natural environments and water resources for future generations.

We are responding to the increasing frequency of large-scale events such as floods and wildfires driven by climate change, urbanization, and biodiversity loss. This role is key to delivering sustainable solutions to these challenges.

Role Accountabilities
- Manage a portfolio of multi-disciplinary projects and multi-scheme programmes
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with clients, stakeholders, and other design disciplines
- Manage quality processes and technical assurance in line with company systems
- Plan, direct, and control tasks, people, resources, and outputs
- Provide technical leadership and direction, developing team members to their full potential and championing a quality, innovative, and entrepreneurial culture
- Undertake Line Manager duties and provide pastoral care to team members
- Contribute to resolving project issues and support other team members
- Promote a proactive culture on Safety, Health, Quality, and Sustainability
- Foster innovation and continuous improvement in engineering technology
- Perform other duties as required by Client Manager or Arcadis Senior Leadership Team
- Collaborate with other Arcadis teams to share knowledge and experience across the business

Experience
- Proven technical leader with experience providing direction, support, and motivation to diverse teams
- Experience working on complex design and delivery frameworks and/or design and build projects
- Ability to manage projects and programmes with contract and commercial understanding
- Skilled in client and stakeholder engagement across multiple organisations and disciplines
- Digitally curious and/or proficient

About You
- Strong communicator able to work effectively with people from varied backgrounds and partner organisations
- Proactive and collaborative with a commitment to quality, innovation, and sustainability
- Passionate about developing others and fostering a positive team culture

Qualifications
- Degree in Civil Engineering or a directly related discipline
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status with membership of a professional institution such as ICE, CIWEM, or IWO