Senior Project Manager

Arcadis; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and consultancy firm in Edinburgh is looking for a Senior Project Manager to oversee Highways, Rail, and Aviation projects. The successful candidate will manage project scopes, budgets, and stakeholder relationships, ensuring timely and compliant project delivery. Candidates should possess expert project management expertise and relevant qualifications, along with significant experience in managing small to medium-sized projects. Join us in creating a sustainable future.

Qualifications

• Expert level expertise in project management
• Relevant experience managing small to medium sized projects
• Experience in managing business relationships at senior management level

Responsibilities

• Oversee scope of work and operational workload of teams or contractors.
• Produce plans and schedules, tracking and managing budgets.
• Deliver small to medium scale projects, ensuring deadlines are met.
• Present project risks or issues to senior management.
• Provide compliance advice and recommendations for process improvement.
• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders on project progress.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Relevant professional qualification or chartered status

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 looking for Senior Project Managers with experience in Highways, Rail and Aviation projects. The candidate will operationally manage core projects or programmes of work to deliver defined objectives.

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for delivering their scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and will deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.

Role accountabilities

• Oversee an agreed scope of work and / or the operational workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed / resources are fully utilised in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work
• Work within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets
• Deliver a number of small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards
• Provide advice to colleagues surrounding behaviours, to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects / programmes can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations
• Advise senior management on issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
• Liaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status
• Relevant experience including management of small to medium sized project
• Commercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders
• 'Expert' level expertise in project management
• Knowledge of own area managed and an understanding of wider programme and business
• Experience in managing business relationships at senior-management level

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.