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:
As part of our Program and Project Management team, you’ll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you’ll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.
The role sits within our Resilience Global Business Area. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanization, and loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Role accountabilities:
As a Senior Planner, your role accountabilities will include:
Managing small to medium-scale projects or programs, ensuring resources are effectively utilized, and deadlines are met. You will oversee project scopes, budgets, and workloads while providing guidance to junior staff and ensuring quality assurance processes are in place. You will proactively identify and present risks to senior management, collaborate across teams to foster successful project delivery, and provide recommendations to improve processes and systems. Additionally, you will mentor junior staff, support their development, and contribute to delivering projects aligned with organizational objectives and standards.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Must have a BSc Eng, Diploma in PM, or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
- At least 8 years of construction experience in consultancy or contracting.
- Working towards a Project Management, Program Management, or similar professional accreditation.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications (e.g., MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Ideally proficient in data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).
- Advanced proficiency in scheduling tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera 6).
- Experience with program analysis tools (e.g., XER Toolkit, Acumen Fuse) and 4D BIM tools (e.g., Synchro Pro, Navisworks).
- Can build master programs from scratch, including logic links, resource, and cost loading.
- Able to monitor project progress, mitigate delays, and perform forensic delay analysis.
- Experienced across RIBA Stages of Work and preparing Design and Construction Programs.
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.
