NEC ECC Senior Project Manager

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Flood Risk Management experience and/or a background within Civil Engineering is desired.

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.