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 34,000 people across more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving complex challenges together.

As a Project Director, you will lead the delivery of complex rail infrastructure projects and programmes, taking overall responsibility for safe, compliant, and commercially successful outcomes. You will set delivery direction, translate business and client objectives into robust operational and financial plans, and provide senior leadership across client, contractor, partner, and design interfaces.

Key Accountabilities:
- Direct implementation and delivery of complex rail infrastructure projects or programmes, ensuring achievement of scope, programme, cost, quality, safety, and assurance outcomes.
- Set delivery approach, governance framework, and leadership structure with appropriate controls.
- Lead teams through complexity, change, and challenge with focus on client outcomes and Arcadis performance.
- Translate business and client objectives into operational and financial targets, managing budgets, forecasts, and programme baselines.
- Lead commercial and contractual matters including NEC3/NEC4 contracts, change control, negotiations, and key decisions.
- Provide senior design leadership and act as design authority where appropriate, ensuring compliance with Network Rail, HS2, Irish Rail, and client-specific standards.
- Embed CDM 2015 duties and "safe by design" principles into design and delivery.
- Build and maintain strategic senior relationships with key rail clients and delivery partners.
- Act as trusted advisor at senior client level, influencing strategic decisions and resolving high-impact issues.
- Lead integration across client, consultant, contractor, and supply chain teams.
- Provide operational leadership, mentoring, and development to project teams.
- Champion safety, health, environmental, wellbeing, and sustainability culture.
- Ensure governance, compliance, and assurance aligned with PACE and client frameworks.
- Promote digital tools, quality, and continuous improvement in project delivery.

Join Arcadis to make a meaningful impact delivering sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet and create a lasting legacy.

Experience
- Extensive experience managing and directing complex rail infrastructure or built-environment projects and programmes.
- Proven delivery of major programmes of significant scale and complexity (e.g. £50m+ CAPEX) across scope, stakeholders, risk, interfaces, and assurance.
- Experience within design and build, contractor, Tier 1 contractor, joint venture, or comparable delivery partner environments.
- Strong commercial, contractual, and financial leadership including programme baselines, change control, and NEC3/NEC4 contracts.
- Familiarity with rail standards, PACE, major programme environments, and client governance and assurance frameworks.
- Clear knowledge and practical application of CDM 2015 duties including safe by design principles.
- Demonstrated ability to shape project delivery strategy, strengthen capability, and lead cultural and operational improvements.

About you
- Provides visible safety leadership in complex, multidisciplinary, and high-pressure delivery environments.
- Operates credibly and confidently at Executive, Sponsor, and senior client levels with clarity, judgement, and authority.
- Manages complex stakeholder, commercial, and delivery pressures with resilience, sound judgement, and a collaborative leadership style.

Qualifications
- Chartered professional status with a recognised institution.