Assistant 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 34,000 people, in over 30 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 have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Project Manager to join our Water team and provide support with on-going Capital Programmes for a major client in the Water Industry.

You will work in a fast-paced client facing role delivering water infrastructure project, working with large multi-disciplinary teams, consisting of civil, M&E and process engineers. The complex projects vary in nature from new wastewater treatment works to water network schemes.

Part of this role will involve travel 1-2 times per week to our clients office in the Brighton area.

Role accountabilities:

• Support the Project/Service Managers in delivering projects using NEC4/3 ECC and PSC on several schemes within the constraints of an agreed budget, programme, and quality criteria, to achieve successful outcomes.

• Support Project Managers with deliverables.

• 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 contract you will be supporting the administration of.

• Monitor progress of work, identify risks in the delivery of priorities to the Project Managers to ensure they can implement timely resolutions of issues, to ensure appropriate reallocation of time, finance and effort and enhancement of the service.

• Encourage and develop a safety conscious culture within the team to deliver work programmes without risk to the health & safety of the team or any other individual

Qualifications & Experience:

• Use of Microsoft Packages, Specifically MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook to a good level and maintaining a high standard of work and presentation with a high level of accuracy.

• Track record within construction project management, preferably within the infrastructure sector

• Preferably Experience working in both fast paced multidisciplinary teams and single large projects.

• Project management qualifications (e.g. PMP, Prince2) would be preferable.

• Contract Management experience would be preferable.

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.

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