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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

Role description

We are excited to grow our project management capability within our UK Defence team.

Responsibilities

• Oversee an agreed scope of work and/or the operational workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed/resources are fully utilised in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work.
• Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances to manage and control project delivery targets.
• Deliver a number of small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards.
• Analyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends; use own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision‑making.
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems.
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations.
• Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.

Qualifications & Experience

• Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging between £3m and £10m.
• Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
• Experience in managing business relationships at middle‑management level.
• Support taking a project through from inception to completion.
• Ability to obtain BPSS clearance.
• Experience in NEC Contract Suites.
• Knowledge of the Defence & Security sector (desirable but not essential).
• Ability to obtain SC clearance.
• Ability to obtain DV clearance.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

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.

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