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:
- A key position within the organization reporting to the Discipline Director in the GEC with a dotted line to the Global Services Director for Environment Services.
- Responsible for spearheading digital adoption and innovation in Environmental Services globally leveraging and connecting in-country teams and GEC teams.
- Drives development and implementation of the digital tools for Site Evaluation & Restoration (SER), Sustainable Operations (SO), Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), and other environmental services globally through the GECs.
- Serve as the central focal point for all digital development initiatives within Environmental Services liaising with the Tech team lead to ensure consistency of approach.
- Oversee "development teams" focusing on Low Code automation, ensuring efficient workflow and optimized processes. Play a crucial part in harmonizing digital efforts across various Business Areas (BAs) and enhancing overall GEC engagement. Act as the GEC representative on the ES Digital Expert Group, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and strategies.
- Identify and support recruitment efforts to acquire/develop expertise in software tools such as Leapfrog, EVS, GIS, Digital EHS, dashboards, data management, etc
- Develop a Center of Excellence in the GEC for all standard ES digital tools.
- Establishing and consolidating relationships with senior staff in regional offices in different countries, taking ownership of the delivery, and GEC’s digital capabilities
- Supports bids and proposals globally from a digital perspective
- Support global projects as a technical expert in digital
- Drive creativity and independent thinking within your team, including around new digital technologies
- Manage the delivery of tasks in accordance with Arcadis Management Systems to meet time, quality, budgetary, and health and safety targets.
- Ensure that best practices of delivery are adopted, and are shared with all relevant teams.
Role Accountabilities:
Subject Matter Expert: You are recognized as an authority in your domain of expertise both in the GEC and the OpCo with a big-picture understanding of the digital and information technology in environment. You provide technical expertise to the project team and can anticipate and solve key technical blockers for the smooth functioning of the project. You provide technical expertise and solutions on multiple projects in your area of expertise.
PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS | WE ALWAYS BRING OUR BEST AND DELIVER ON OUR PROMISES
Client Outcomes
- You foster innovation by contributing to knowledge-based programs to help in improving project outcomes.
- You work with other members of the team in and outside your GEC to mitigate safety-related risks
- You help mentor technical leads to constantly update yourself with current changes in the industry.
- You give suitable solutions to be applied in the project, without compromising quality or service while optimizing cost.
- You contribute to a range of assignments by identifying, reviewing, and selecting techniques, procedures, and methods to undertake tasks, ensuring the program of work is completed and project milestones are met.
- You use your knowledge and experience of best practices to support the development of systems and processes.
- You exercise sound holistic independent judgment and take responsibility and accountability for your performance and that of junior and senior team members, driving engagement of project teams.
- You maintain strong working relationships with senior colleagues in the GECs and regional offices and understand the wider company perspective
- Foster a culture of open feedback and positive learning, dealing with any poor performance in a constructive way, maintaining a growth mindset.
Accountability/Responsibility
- You set high standards in terms of professional office conduct and advise others in your team of the requirements.
- You are performing at a senior level with significant accountability for project success, including accountability for the technical delivery of others.
- You are expected to have in-depth knowledge of your sector, BA or Industry to support project delivery, and are beginning to display thought leadership.
- You are driving the development of process improvement and best practice in your discipline and drawing on global expertise and best practice.
- You find opportunities to showcase best practice outputs/capabilities to the wider GEC community and/or external stakeholders, as well as seek out best practices from other teams.
- Drive inputs to improve standard operating procedures, create manuals of good practices following safe design principles and organize and conduct training sessions.
Core Skills
- You carry professional certification to act as a bona fide expert within your domain.
- Excellent project coordination skills and experience in leading complex projects involving a variety of disciplines and stakeholders. You approve and sign off deliverables taking accountability for the quality of work completed by the team.
- You lead exceptional outcomes through service excellence across multiple, complex capability areas in challenging environments, in accordance with the GEC Management System.
- You drive performance, service delivery, and outcomes, and undertake reviews, ensuring delivery is above expectation. You also lead the interdisciplinary reviews of deliverables.
PEOPLE & INTERACTIONS | WE VALUE EACH OTHER AND WORK AS ONE TEAM
Your Values
- You role model Arcadis’ HS&W principles with a robust understanding of safe design processes.
- You are actively involved in discipline and organizational initiatives that are aimed at the betterment of the organization and people.
- You are a role model for effective delegation in order to achieve the best team and organizational outcomes.
Collaboration & Client Interaction
You develop strong, partnering relationships with GBA to identify and resolve issues, identify business opportunities, and establish protocols to improve the services being offered.
You have a broad understanding of the business and financial metrics prompting you to drive innovation to increase team contribution needed for the successful operation of the business
ARCADIS STRATEGY | WE DARE TO SHAPE OUR FUTURE
Sustainability & Digitalization
- Stay current and up to date on any technology changes that may affect engineering design and development and advise of any impact.
- Research the latest technologies, processes, devices, materials, and techniques and play an instrumental role in finding innovative ways of developing products.
- You are expected to work with colleagues in OpCo’s or Business Area to identify opportunities for digital innovation and implement best practice
Standardization & Automation
- You play a major role in forming the strategic growth areas for your business line.
- You act as a champion of best practices and standardization, including the scaling of new tools and technologies.
- You create opportunities for others to contribute to service innovation, lessons learned and best practice.
Qualifications & Experience:
- BE Tech/MTech in Environmental/Civil/Computer Engineering or equivalent
- Post Graduate or MBA preferred
- Ideally 13+ years of professional experience
- Strong technical background in working with and/or developing Digital Tools
- Proficient in global digital and technology trends related to the environmental sector
- Understanding of Environment, Sustainability, and H&S business
- Experience in managing staff/stakeholders across a wide range of disciplines.
- Confident in building strong and lasting relationships at a regional and global level
- A strong, self-motivated, and assertive person capable of working under pressure.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
- Flexible to adopt changes and challenges as per business requirements.
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 equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
