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:Arcadis is seeking an experienced, dynamic Senior Engineer to take on a national leadership role for sustainable drainage and integrated water management in England and Wales. The role will encompass SuDS strategies and designs, nutrient neutrality studies/mitigations, water cycle studies, surface water management plans and these agendas' interface with the management of flood risk and sustainable water resources for people and the environment.
In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.
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 climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
We will offer personal and professional development, which will allow you to take your career as far as you want it to go.
Role accountabilities:Our growing team is tackling some of the biggest challenges facing the water sector. From addressing nutrient neutrality to unlock growth for homes and businesses to climate change adaptation for too much or too little water. You will be given the opportunity to work with our technical experts, clients and stakeholders to develop truly innovative and sustainable solutions.
The successful candidate will be a strong leader experienced in a wide and varied portfolio of projects, accountable for business development, co-ordinating delivery and quality control. Operating in a diverse marketplace, this role offers excellent opportunities to deploy your technical knowledge and grow our sustainable drainage and integrated water management portfolio.
- Technical lead for a range of water management projects - e.g., drainage strategies/ SuDS designs, nutrient neutrality studies/mitigations, water cycle studies, surface water management plans and FRAs
- Project management including contracts, invoicing, client management etc.
- Supporting bids, tenders and value propositions including preparing, contributing to, and reviewing commercial and technical aspects of bids
- Responsibility for technical quality and quality assurance of project deliverables
- Building relationships with clients
- Liaising with project directors, technical directors, and other design/technical disciplines to work collaboratively across sectors and ensure the integrity of our work
- Guiding the development of the team through technical advice and mentoring and supporting their professional development programmes
- An experienced professional within the water management sector, with a good understanding of regulatory and planning policy and processes (including flood risk and the water environment)
- Strong technical knowledge of SuDS, wetlands, and nature-based solutions (particularly on a strategic / catchment scale)
- Experience of working on master planning and infrastructure projects
- Ability to manage programme and commercial aspects of projects
- Ability to lead others in the delivery of projects
- Desired: experience of nutrient neutrality/water cycle studies and environmental impact assessments
- Chartered status with an appropriate body (CIWEM, ICE)
- Degree in a relevant subject
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.
Join Arcadis. Create a 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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