Principal Civil Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater)

Arcadis; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Principal Civil Design Engineer in Cambridge to lead projects in water and wastewater. In this role, you will manage relationships, oversee project delivery, and guide a team towards achieving sector goals. Ideal candidates will have a degree in Civil Engineering and relevant chartered status, alongside experience in complex project environments.

Qualifications

• Degree in Civil Engineering or related field.
• Chartered Engineer with a professional institution membership.
• Experience with complex design and delivery frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of multi-disciplinary projects.
• Build and maintain client and stakeholder relationships.
• Provide technical leadership and direction.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project management

Client relationship management

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status

Job description

Principal Civil Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater)

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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:

Our Water team is tackling some of the UK’s most technically challenging projects and AMP8 programmes. We are renowned for our expertise in delivering these complex schemes and collaborate closely with some of the country’s most prominent and well-known water companies and contractors.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Civil Engineer to lead a growing team supporting our multiple Frameworks across the UK covering Wastewater & Clean water projects both non-infra and infrastructure. The role will require client liaison, technical leadership and governance and the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries, both internally and externally, and offers a pathway towards senior management positions.

The role is within our Resilience Global Business Area where 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 climate change, rapid urbanization, 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:

• Manage a portfolio of multi-disciplinary projects and/or multi-scheme programmes of work.
• Build and retain collaborative relationships with the client, stakeholders and other design disciplines
• Manage quality processes and technical assurance in line with company systems
• Plan, direct and control tasks, people, resources and outputs
• Provide technical leadership and direction, taking a proactive role in developing them to their full potential, leading by example to achieve sector/divisional goals and championing a quality, innovative and entrepreneurial culture.
• Undertake Line Manager duties and pastoral care to team members
• Contributing to the resolution of project issues and providing guidance and support to other team members
• Promote a culture that is proactive on Safety, Health, Quality and Sustainability matters
• Promote a culture of innovation, helping to develop engineering technology and continuous improvement systems
• Performing other duties as required from time to time by your Client Manager or Arcadis Senior Leadership Team
• Work with other Arcadis teams to foster collaboration, ensuring the collective knowledge and experience is shared across all
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Civil Engineering or other directly related degree
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as ICE, CIWEM, IWO
• A technical leader, able to provide direction support and motivate a diverse team
• Experience of working on complex design and delivery frameworks and / or design and build projects
• Is digitally curious and/or proficient
• Able to communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience to best effect
• A working knowledge of managing a project and programme with contract and commercial understanding
  
  

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. 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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