Senior Project Manager – Water / Wastewater

Overview

As a Senior Project Manager in Arcadis’ Water Programme, you will lead multi-disciplinary projects within a regulated environment to deliver capital programmes on time and within budget. You’ll coordinate internal teams and external stakeholders to secure value-for-money outcomes from design to commissioning. The role focuses on risk, contract management, and ensuring quality, safety, and sustainability across projects. You’ll contribute to high-profile water infrastructure with a clear impact on resilience and environmental stewardship.

Responsibilities

• Deliver sustainable financial out-performance against approved budgets
• Manage contract matters commercially for optimal outcomes
• Develop and deliver optimized projects meeting regulatory, statutory and internal deadlines
• Provide technical solutions delivering value for money on capital and whole-life cost
• Oversee performance management of service providers to meet SLAs and value
• Proactively manage risks and issues to mitigate impact and maximize opportunities
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders on project matters
• Ensure compliance with quality systems and processes to meet standards
• Establish and promote a culture of health, safety, and environmental responsibility
• Embrace digital and sustainable solutions in day-to-day project delivery

Key requirements

• Chartered status or working towards chartership
• Experience delivering portfolios of programs/projects, ideally in water or regulated industry
• Strong commercial approach with contract management experience; IChemE or NEC Contract Management is a plus
• Ability to build and manage relationships with external stakeholders
• Experience in making risk decisions to minimize consequences for projects
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams
• Relevant engineering degree; postgraduate qualifications are an advantage
• Project management qualifications (PMP, Prince2) preferred
• Experience in water and wastewater projects is desirable
• Driving license

• collaboration with stakeholders
• proactive risk management
• strong communication
• IChemE or NEC Contract Management
• contract management
• risk assessment and mitigation

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