Location
London, Greater London, United Kingdom

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 in more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving complex challenges together.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to support ongoing Capital Programmes in the Water Industry. In this role, you will take the lead in driving multi-disciplinary projects within a dynamic and regulated industry environment. You will guide project teams through every phase of the project life cycle, ensuring optimal business solutions for our clients.

Collaboration with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders will be key to delivering projects to the highest standards. Your expertise will be crucial in managing and assuring the performance of design and build contractors, ensuring project outcomes are achieved within cost, time, and quality parameters from design to commissioning.

As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you will help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, working alongside some of the best talent in the industry. With your energy, agility, and keen eye for detail, you will deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

Our Resilience team works to protect our natural environment and water resources while powering our world for future generations. We respond to the increasing frequency of large-scale events such as floods and wildfires driven by climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity.

Key accountabilities include delivering sustainable financial out-performance against approved budgets, managing all contract matters commercially, developing optimized projects to meet regulatory and internal targets, providing technical solutions that deliver value for money, overseeing service provider performance, proactively managing project risks and issues, communicating effectively with stakeholders, ensuring compliance with quality systems, promoting health, safety and environmental responsibility, and embracing digital and sustainable solutions in day-to-day project delivery.

Experience
- Chartered status or working towards chartership
- Proven experience delivering portfolios of programs or projects, ideally in the water sector and/or regulated industries
- Strong commercial approach with solid contract management skills; experience with IChemE or NEC Contract Management is a plus
- Ability to build and manage key relationships with external stakeholders
- Experience in making risk decisions and understanding implications to minimize project consequences
- Proven leadership of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver successful project outcomes

About you
Energetic and detail-oriented with strong leadership skills. You thrive in dynamic, regulated environments and are committed to delivering sustainable, high-quality outcomes. You are collaborative and able to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

Qualifications
- Relevant engineering degree; postgraduate qualifications are an advantage
- Project management qualifications such as PMP or Prince2 are preferred
- Experience in water and wastewater projects is desirable
- Valid driving license