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
Are you looking for a new, exciting opportunity to be involved with ground-breaking building designs embracing zero carbon and climate reduction principles and be part of team that is going to be at the forefront of creating a market leading Defence Business?
Arcadis has secured a place on the MoD’s ECAM Framework (Project Management and Full Design) as preferred supplier on the London and SE Region and Accommodation Theme (National Coverage) for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation.
We have also been appointed on a major programme of Single Living Accommodation for the Army and the team are seeking Assistant Project Managers with suitable experience or transferable skills to working on this programme and support with the growth of our Defence business.
Role accountabilities
- Work within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans, schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets.
- Deliver/ assist to manage projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources 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 themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making.
- Use knowledge and experience to review project processes and policies, providing advice to support management in developing and improving processes and systems.
- Interact effectively across the organisation, completing complex professional level tasks for others in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations.
- Advise colleagues on issues relating to own projects, providing subject matter advice in order to support delivery and ensure there is alignment between policy and operational practice.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and third party contractors, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.
Qualifications & Experience:
First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:
- Relevant business experience including management of projects
- Good communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships.
- The ability to negotiate and manage relationships with external stakeholders.
- Commercial acumen and organisational understanding.
- A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
- Attainment of OR near attainment of relevant professional certification or chartered status
Due to the nature of the projects you'll be working on, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) is required. If you do not already have BPSS level clearance, you would need to be willing to go through this process.
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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