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
As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you’ll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.
The role sits within our Resilience Global Business Area. We work 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.
Role Accountabilities
- Take ownership of distinct elements project management assignments, ensuring standards of delivery meet defined objectives and contribute towards successful delivery of a project or programme.
- Proficiency & understanding of Project Management tools and the procedures to be followed that make process efficient.
- Clarify scope, commit to deadlines, and deliver quality outputs at agreed times
- Provide guidance to other junior team members and may begin to supervise and train others in your team.
- Take a proactive role in evaluating processes, sharing knowledge, identifying opportunities, and providing advice to help improve processes and systems
- Provide a substantial role on less complex projects or elements of larger, less complex projects and take ownership of distinct elements of the tasks / assignments
- Work independently and have an in-depth technical knowledge and practical experience to complete most tasks, but will seek support from senior team member on new or unusual areas of work
- Apply analytical skills and technical methods to complete complex, professional level tasks on time with value added Interpreting and applying established policies
- Act as a champion or sub-task led to deliver small tasks using new tools, and train others in how to use them.
- To facilitate effective project management by adeptly managing and analyzing data, identifying potential performance risks and issues, and implementing strategies to mitigate them.
- Analyze all the risks and opportunities, clearly communicate priorities and potential impacts.
- You will, generally, report to a GEC Leader, although you may be asked to direct others on small to medium tasks on a recurring basis
Qualifications & Experience
- 5-10 years related experience in in Project accounting, Project Management & Project co-ordination.
- Experience operating in a global offshoring model.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English is mandatory including the ability to liaise with peers and seniors, and build relationships in the GEC and the countries we work with
- Development of high level of competency with the Oracle ERP financial and project management system, following training, and with support PMP/ APM / PRINCE2 certifications will be an add on advantage to the requirement
- Able to work independently and check your own work, and work of others more junior, to ensure quality
- Excellent technical knowledge and practical experience with limited direction from a senior team member on new or unusual areas of work
- Understanding of the wider organization in your area of expertise
- Excellent time management skills without compromise to quality
- Good knowledge of Arcadis Way Project Management requirements, including any client, account, or team specific requirements
- Able to interpret and communicate project policies, this includes processes and systems, monitoring, and escalation of project level KPIs, performance metrics as well as process compliance and escalation of issues
- Proficiency in relevant software and systems, and display an enthusiasm and demonstratable ability to learn new tools ·
- If required for delivery, you should have a foundation level professional certification, such as APM/MSP
- Developing the ability to negotiate and manage relationships with external stakeholders and maintain PM satisfaction
- Reasonable knowledge of task management requirements
- Flexible and organized with a positive attitude and taking ownership of, and proactive problem solving.
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.
Join Arcadis. Create a legacy.
