NEC ECC Senior Project Manager in Cambridge

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.

We are recruiting for a Senior Project Manager with proven experience in managing NEC ECC contracts to join our Water teams supporting flood defence schemes. As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you’ll help deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day. Our team works on a variety of flood defence and adaptation projects and supports our clients with the protection and enhancement of environmental matters across England.

As an NEC ECC Project Manager you will have the opportunity to work on a range of Water, Civil Engineering and Utilities related projects with a focus on NEC contracts providing early contractual advice and administration during the construction phase of schemes. Our Resilience team works to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities:

• Project manage a range of civil engineering, water and utility projects using the NEC4 / NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC); include contract administration in accordance with the role of the Project Manager on several NEC ECC contracts.
• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders; clients, contractors, consultants and 3rd party stakeholders on each project to ensure delivery is on time, within budget and to a high quality and in accordance with the NEC ECC contract you will be administering.
• Provide high level advice and support to resolve issues during construction, ensuring that decisions are made on sound technical grounds in line with best practice and required standards & timeframes.
• Monitor progress of work, identify risks in the delivery of priorities and implement timely resolution of issues, to ensure appropriate reallocation of time, finance and effort and enhancement of the service.
• Provide good quality management reporting on service delivery, to support the planning of operational work, inform business decisions and provide a sound basis from which to communicate with and influence internal / external partners.
• Lead or support project teams to achieve well planned and managed integrated solutions that progress effective change and improvement in the organisation and support the best environmental outcomes.
• Provide effective leadership to health & safety matters by actively promoting health & safety awareness and ensuring the provision of safe working practices.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience of project management and ECC contract management to enable successful delivery of larger-scale, complex and demanding projects according to agreed outcomes.
• Civil Engineering, Utilities, Water, Environment, Infrastructure project experience.
• Strong & demonstrable experience with NEC forms of contract.
• Track record of leading integrated and multi-disciplinary project management teams.
• Membership of; Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Association of Project Manager’s (APM) or Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) is advantageous.
• NEC3 or NEC4 Accredited Project Manager is advantageous.
• Desired: Flood Risk Management experience and/or a background within Civil Engineering.

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. 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.