Job Description

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future. One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you. Job Purpose:

• To take on a key role within the sector/discipline, winning work, providing leadership, technical advice and leading by example where appropriate
• To manage projects (or components of projects) meeting budgetary, quality, safety and timeframe targets, while exceeding client expectations
• To promote and market all facets of Arcadis’ services during interfaces with clients, other sectors/disciplines and externally at seminars and conferences
• To build and consolidate networks within the industry
• To identify opportunities for process improvement within the discipline area
• To contribute towards the achievement of the sector/discipline plan

Knowledge & Experience:

• Apply Arcadis Health and Safety Principles during the delivery of work
• Perform role in accordance with the Arcadis behavioral framework
• Providing input into the sector strategy/ business plans, as required, and contributing towards its achievement
• Communicating with team members to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, sector/discipline business plans
• Proactively managing selected projects (or components of projects), taking responsibility for resource allocation, managing subcontractors, managing the production of analysis and design (including drawings and reports), ensuring the integrity of the overall design (in collaboration with other design disciplines), quality assurance and client feedback
• Liaising with and assisting the Project Manager to ensure commercial aspects relating to the design team(s) eg. contract, invoicing, debt, client management etc can achieve a successful result
• Liaising with the Project Manager or Director and the client to keep informed of all developments, changes/modifications associated with the project
• Identifying opportunities and driving implementation of re-engineering strategies to maximise the profitability of design components
• Gaining a good understanding of the background of the client’s business and industry to facilitate building effective and enduring relationships and consolidating both company and personal credibility in the industry
• Providing leadership, direction and technical advice to project team members
• Taking a proactive role in developing team members to their full potential, leading by example to achieve sector/divisional goals and championing a quality, innovative and entrepreneurial culture
• Engaging in Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Performing other duties and responsibilities as required from time to time by your manager or Arcadis.
• Monitor the performance of team members identifying and ensuring the resolution of any issues
• Present technical solutions to the team, Task Managers and Project Managers in Arcadis’ regional offices
• Participate in interdisciplinary reviews of deliverables on behalf of engineering discipline
• Perform quality control review of design calculations or drawings
• Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile
• Comply with Arcadis General Business Principles and Specific Anti Corruption Standard
• Ability to provide leadership and technical advice to junior team members
• Ability to identify the limits of personal knowledge and skills
• Ability to exercise sound independent engineering judgement and take responsibility for delivery outcomes
• Demonstrate appropriate professional standards, recognizing obligations to society, the profession and the environment
• Exercise responsibilities in an ethical manner
• Able to communicate well with others at all levels including effective use of English orally and in writing
• Able to discuss ideas and plan competently and with confidence
• Possess effective personal and social skills
• Able to manage diversity issues
• Able to deliver close compliance with Arcadis management system requirements to support delivery of design and engineering projects
• Ability to be a key contributor to safe design practice processes which consider safety during construction, operation and decomissioning through the use of hazard identification and risk assessment during design development
• Have a sound knowledge of relevant design codes, legislation, hazards and safe systems of work
• Understand how to manage health, safety and welfare within own area of responsibility
• Experienced in leading, and working with, people from varied disciplines, backgrounds and cultures
• Able to plan for effective task implementation and manage the planning and organisation of tasks, people and resources
• Experience managing teams and developing staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs
• Able to effectively manage quality processes
• Have effective task management, stakeholder relationship management and commercial skills at a level expected of a professional person
• Have a broad understanding of one or more sectors
• Able to maintain and extend a sound theoretical approach to the application of technology in engineering practice
• Have ability to use a sound evidence-based approach to problem solving and be able to contribute to continuous improvement
• Able to operate reliably, independently and competently in a specialist discipline
• Able to identify, review and select techniques, procedures and methods to undertake engineering tasks
• Be capable of contributing to the design and development of engineering solutions
• Able to implement design solutions and contribute to their evaluation
• Able to provide input to estimates for the engineering budget and schedule and to oversee technical resources to meet requirements on small to large sized projects
• Consistently exhibit the behaviors associated with the role
• In a task management role, have sound commercial knowledge including awareness of contractual conditions and procedures
• Have a sound knowledge of sustainable development best practice
• Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent and formally licensed to act as a professional engineer (if required in their Arcadis GEC country)
• Post-graduate qualifications an advantage
• Relevant post-graduate experience, including supervising aspects of a project of significant scale and/or complexity, application of standards, managing of resources and technical knowledge
• Demonstrated technical, commercial and delivery acumen
• Demonstrated experience of managing inter-disciplinary design interfaces and/or projects
• Demonstrated ability to lead, with good influencing, motivating and delegation skills
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills, both internally and externally
• Experience of seeking and securing opportunities
• Experience of cost/benefit assessment and best value design
• Experience of delivering designs and reports at all stages from concept through to final project and construction delivery
• Minimum 10 years experience.
• Proficiency in using CADD/Design (Bentley OpenRoads Designer and/or Civil3D) and experience with MicroStation/ORD a plus.

Why Become an Arcadian? 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. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions. Transform Your World
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