At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative water projects and manage a dynamic team across the UK.
- Company: Join a renowned firm dedicated to tackling the UK's water challenges.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career progression, and a focus on equality and inclusion.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on environmental sustainability while advancing your career.
- Qualifications: Degree in Civil Engineering and experience in complex design projects.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
Role description
Our Water team is tackling some of the UK’s most technically challenging projects and AMP8 programmes.
We are renowned for our expertise in delivering these complex schemes and collaborate closely with some of the country’s most prominent and well-known water companies and contractors.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Civil Engineer to lead a growing team supporting our multiple Frameworks across the UK covering Wastewater & Clean Water projects both non‑infra and infrastructure.
The role will require client liaison, technical leadership and governance and the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries, both internally and externally, and offers a pathway towards senior management positions.
The role is within our Resilience Global Business Area where we work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
- Role accountabilities
- Manage a portfolio of multi‑disciplinary projects and/or multi‑scheme programmes of work.
- Build and retain collaborative relationships with the client, stakeholders and other design disciplines.
- Manage quality processes and technical assurance in line with company systems.
- Plan, direct and control tasks, people, resources and outputs.
- Provide technical leadership and direction, taking a proactive role in developing team members to their full potential, leading by example to achieve sector/divisional goals and championing a quality, innovative and entrepreneurial culture.
- Undertake line manager duties and pastoral care for team members.
- Contribute to the resolution of project issues and provide guidance and support to other team members.
- Promote a culture that is proactive on Safety, Health, Quality and Sustainability matters.
- Promote a culture of innovation, helping to develop engineering technology and continuous improvement systems.
- Perform other duties as required from time to time by your Client Manager or Arcadis Senior Leadership Team.
- Work with other Arcadis teams to foster collaboration, ensuring the collective knowledge and experience is shared across all.
Qualifications & Experience
- Degree in Civil Engineering or other directly related degree.
- Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as ICE, CIWEM, IWO.
- A technical leader, able to provide direction, support and motivate a diverse team.
- Experience of working on complex design and delivery frameworks and/or design and build projects.
- Is digitally curious and/or proficient.
- Able to communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience to best effect.
- A working knowledge of managing a project and programme with contract and commercial understanding.
- 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.
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At Arcadis, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration across our UK-wide Ground Investigation team. With flexible location options in vibrant cities like Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Birmingham, we provide our employees with opportunities for professional growth, a strong commitment to health and safety, and a focus on equality, diversity, and inclusion. Join us to lead impactful projects while developing your skills and building meaningful relationships with clients and colleagues alike.
