Project Manager (Higher Education)

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:

We are recruiting for a Project Manager to work on Education (higher education) projects in England. This role encompasses project management and contract administration with successful candidates taking ownership of their own batch of projects for which they will oversee from inception through to completion and handover.

Day to day, the Project Manager will be responsible for driving the higher education projects forwards to ensure that progress is aligned to programmes and the project is developed in accordance with the client requirements.

We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive. Places impact on the quality of people's lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools and hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centers. People and communities thrive when the spaces in which they live, work, move and play are designed and managed in a way that best meets their needs.

Role accountabilities:

As a Project Manager you would own a batch of your own projects and be accountable for pushing them forwards in line with the agreed development programmes. You will have responsibility for co-ordinating the client-side team and specialists to progress the projects through the main stages of the client's project processes. It is expected that this would include:

• Leading and managing consultant teams through all RIBA stages
• Overseeing and monitoring the works to assure compliance with the contract
• Assuring the Contractor is held to account for quality
• Certifying works are compliant and complete

Qualifications & Experience:

• Previous experience working on higher education projects is required
• Other education experience including schools, colleges and museums is desirable
• Experience in modernising, or expanding laboratory facilities is desirable
• Prior experience working within a consultancy environment is desirable
• MAPM or equivalent

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.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

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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.