Associate Project Manager – Local Government

Job Description

Job title: Associate Project Manager – Local Government

Company: Arcadis

Job description: 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 currently looking for an Associate Project Manager to join our Local Authority focused team to work on a range of exciting projects across Cornwall. As an Associate Project Manager you will deliver excellent client outcomes by leading or working as part of teams delivering built asset projects, predominantly, but not exclusively, to local authority clients. This will include complex and challenging housing development and regeneration projects and programmes at all stages.

Role accountabilities

• The day-to-day delivery of high quality, profitable services to clients
• Working with colleagues to manage £multi-million projects and programmes from inception through feasibility, design and planning stages to completion and occupation/operation
• Helping to create project plans and then executing and managing them effectively for clients, managing risk, change and programme delivery effectively
• Assembling and leading multi-disciplinary design and consultancy teams, often with a mixture of Arcadis colleagues, sub-consultants and consultants appointed by the client
• Leading the procurement, appointment and management of contractors with support from public sector officers and legal advisors
• Presenting progress reporting to clients and working with them to manage through complexity to achieve the outcomes their project investments are designed to facilitate.
• Accountable for delivery of timely and accurate data collection, analysis and reports
• Responsible for interpreting and communicating project support policies, processes and systems
• Responsible for monitoring and escalation of project management KPIs and performance metrics
• Responsible for communicating and highlighting project process compliance issues to project managers
• Responsible for performance management of project team / resource

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

• A relevant professional qualification
• Flexible skills focused on client engagement and a drive to deliver successful projects
• Experience of working in or for local authority clients
• Experience in delivery of residential projects preferably with a social housing focus
• Ability and desire to communicate well with a diverse mix of stakeholders
• An understanding of public procurement
• Knowledge and understanding of project management at all stages of projects, with a particular focus on design and construction.
• A hunger to learn and develop and a drive to deliver excellent outcomes for our clients.
• A digital mindset, with the ability to use technology to better manage projects

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.

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.

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Expected salary:

Location: Exeter

Job date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 05:02:19 GMT

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