Project Manager (Water)

We are recruiting for a Project Manager to join our UK Water team supporting a variety of projects across water, civil engineering & utilities. As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you'll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you'll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

Our team works on a variety of flood defence and adaptation projects and support our clients with the protection and enhancement of environmental matters across England. As a Project Manager you will have the opportunity to work on a range of Water, Civil Engineering and Utilities related projects with a focus on NEC/ECC contract providing early contractual advice and administration during the construction phase of schemes.

The sheer size and complexity of projects we're involved with demand a joined-up approach. It's why you'll have the opportunity to work with some of the most talented people around, blending diverse skills, experience and perspectives to deliver transformational outcomes. You'll need energy, agility and a forensic eye for detail - and be able to deliver for multiple clients every day.

Role accountabilities:

• Project manage a range of civil engineering, water and utility projects using the NEC4 / NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) including contract administration in accordance with the role of the Project Manager on several NEC ECC contracts.


• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders; clients, contractors, consultants and 3rd party stakeholders on each project to ensure delivery is on time, within budget and to a high quality and in accordance with the NEC ECC contract you will be administering.


• Provide high level advice and support to resolve issues during construction, ensuring that decisions are made on sound technical grounds in line with best practice and required standards & timeframes.


• Monitor progress of work, identify risks in the delivery of priorities and implement timely resolution of issues, to ensure appropriate reallocation of time, finance and effort and enhancement of the service.


• Provide good quality management reporting on service delivery, to support the planning of operational work, inform business decisions and provide a sound basis from which to communication with and influence internal / external partners.


• Lead or support project teams to achieve well planned and managed integrated solutions that progress effective change and improvement in the organisation and support the best environmental outcomes.


• Provide effective leadership to health & safety matters by actively promoting health & safety awareness and ensuring the provision of safe working practices., Our work with clients has a direct impact on people's lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.


We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients' most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it's not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

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.


• Experience of project management and ECC contract management to enable successful delivery of larger-scale, complex and demanding projects according to agreed outcomes.


• Civil Engineering, Utilities, Water, Environment, Infrastructure project experience.


• Track record of leading integrated and multi-disciplinary project management teams.


• Membership of; Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Association of Project Manager's (APM) or Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)


• Desired: Flood Risk Management experience and/or a background within Civil Engineering
  
  Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.