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:
- Responsible for managing technical aspects of smaller and/or less
complex tasks or components of larger tasks, meeting financial,
quality, timeframe and health and safety objectives - Typically assigned to provide a controlling technical role for single discipline on smaller and/or less complex tasks or elements of larger tasks
- May undertake a Task Management Role in line with Arcadis Task Manager Academy competence requirements
- Coordinate and manage small teams of single (own) discipline engineers and technicians
- Work to ensure maximum internal stakeholder satisfaction, championing care and proactively working with internal stakeholders
Role accountabilities:
- Perform role in accordance with the Arcadis behavioral framework
- Support the management of performance and behaviors of more
junior staff - Agree and implement task delivery approach in collaboration with Arcadis regional office colleagues
- Manage selected tasks, taking responsibility for resource allocation
and successful delivery - Provide management and technical advice to junior project team
members - Operate at a level consistent with a senior engineering professional
- When appointed in the role of a Task Manager;
- take responsibility for assisting with the preparation of budgets, monitoring progress, identifying out of scope works and forecasting as appropriate
- Will be driving task performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertaking reviews, ensuring delivery is above expectation
- will be communicating with team members to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, the delivery strategy, brief and project requirements
- will be managing the acquisition, deployment and management of resources for the task to
ensure optimal resource allocation
- Work in collaboration with other design disciplines to ensure the
integrity of the overall design - Undertake a leading assurance role to quality-assure outputs (e.g.
drawings, reports, specifications, etc.) to ensure that they meet or
exceed expectations as well as Arcadis requirements, and that they
comply with national standards and codes of practice - Provide support to Project Management in Arcadis regional offices articulating necessary changes to task requirements and assisting with the quantification of the impact on schedule and fee
- Promote awareness of technical and commercial risk assessments
and mitigation together with best value design options - Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with
technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to
develop a strong professional profil
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering or equivalent and formally licensed to act as a professional engineer (if required in their Arcadis GEC country)
- Possess 5-10 years of relevant professional experience
- In a task management role, preferable to have assisted an experienced task manager in the role
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.
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. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.
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