Overview

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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.

Role description: We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Associate Project Manager to join our Water team, playing a pivotal role in supporting Capital Programmes in the Water Industry. This opportunity involves working closely with a large multi-disciplinary team on a flagship water infrastructure project, on the client site. From civil and mechanical to electrical engineering, this project offers a diverse range of challenges and opportunities. If you're ready to drive impactful change and lead projects of scale then we want to hear from you!

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. You’ll 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. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and biodiversity loss. The rate of large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires is increasing. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities

• Lead a multidisciplinary team, managing people to deliver outputs and standards of delivery; mentor, coach and develop colleagues to achieve project objectives and continuous improvement.
• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, ensuring compliance with Arcadis’ risk and compliance policy and codes of conduct.
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service.
• Analyse and compile complex data and documents; review and assess analysis and provide advice and recommendations to contribute to project decision-making.
• Develop processes and review policies for own project, ensuring alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders to identify opportunities for improved efficiencies and collaboration across projects, ensuring client satisfaction.
• Act as a technical expert within the project, providing subject matter advice to colleagues to support delivery of project objectives.
• Manage relationships with clients and third-party contractors to keep all parties informed of progress and expectations.
• Establish and promote a health, safety and environmental culture, including opportunities to continuously improve.
• Embrace digital and sustainable solutions in day-to-day project delivery.
• Work with pursuits team to identify and pursue new project opportunities with new and existing clients.

Qualifications & Experience

• Relevant project management experience including leading teams.
• Experience delivering portfolios of programmes or projects, ideally in the water sector.
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
• Subject matter expertise in own discipline.
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with and influence external stakeholders.
• Experience of leading and implementing complex business change solutions.
• Experience in managing business relationships at senior-management level.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities with a focus on client relationship management.
• Experience in leading a Health and Safety performance culture within construction projects.

Other requirements

• Line management responsibilities, assisting and developing yourself and other team members to their full potential.
• Driving license.

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We are committed to equality and inclusion. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and to provide a great place to work for all our people. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work with six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other
• Industries
• Professional Services

There is ongoing activity about matching candidates to roles. If this job is not right for you, consider applying to other Arcadis roles in Leeds or nearby areas.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to bring your best self to work. We hold ourselves to account for our actions and strive to be an employer of choice. By working together, diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. ED&I is central to how we improve quality of life.