Project Manager Design

Arcadis; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Project Manager to lead large, complex multidisciplinary projects from design through to implementation in Belgium. You will own the Project Management Plan, manage scope, schedule, and budget, and ensure client satisfaction through strong communication and quality monitoring.

The role emphasizes delivering commercial results and maintaining cash flow with effective invoicing and receivables handling.

Qualifications

• Clinical emphasis on multidisciplinary project management, from design to implementation.
• Experience with resource planning, quality monitoring and budget control.
• Strong communication skills, persuasive, and customer-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and monitor the Project Management Plan aligned with project risk and size.
• Ensure plan is followed by the project team and manage handover with Pursuit Leader.
• Deliver or exceed the commercial plan and identify margin improvement opportunities.
• Maintain a positive cash balance via invoicing and aged receivables management.
• Collaborate with Resource Manager/Planner to allocate the best resources.
• Ensure client quality expectations are understood and reflected in scope.
• Monitor and update scopes, schedules and budgets throughout execution.
• Communicate variations and the change process with the client and team.

Skills

Project management

Resource planning

Quality monitoring

Budget control

Communication

Customer orientation

Education

Industrial Engineer in Electromechanical Engineering

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 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.

What challenge will you take on?

As Project Manager you are accountable for the large and complex projects, watching over quality, scope, schedule and budgetary performance according to the Project Management Plan set during the plan project phase.

Your tasks

• You are responsible for the completion of the handover with the Pursuit Leader.
• You establish a Project Management Plan as defined in the Initiate and Plan Project phase of the Delivery to Results Quality Procedures. This should consider the fit to size principal stating that the plan should be commensurate with the project risk.
• You ensure the Project Management Plan is followed by team members.
• You deliver or exceed on the commercial plan for the project and identify margin improvement opportunities.
• You aim to maintain a positive cash balance through prompt invoicing and chasing of aged receivables/debt.
• You work with the Resource Manager/Planner to identify the best person for the project and ensure resources are correctly allocated to project and tasks.
• You assure that client’s quality expectations and needs as defined by the PM are properly understood and reflected.
• You monitor and update scopes of work, with appropriate schedules and budgets.
• You communicate with the client variations that may impact planned scope, budget, schedule, content, and quality during execution.
• You communicate the change process (internal and external) with team, where appropriate, i.e., not addressed by PM.

Does your profile match?

• You are an Industrial Engineer in Electromechanical Engineering or equivalent through your experience in MEP or HVAC.
• Your solid experience as a project manager enables you to manage multidisciplinary projects, from design to implementation phase. You are also familiar with resource planning, quality monitoring and budget control.
• You are communicatively strong, persuasive, results-oriented and above all customer-oriented.
• You are fluent in Dutch and you have a good proficiency in English.

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.