Senior Project Manager - Defence & Security

Arcadis; Warrington; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis seeks a Senior Project Manager specializing in Defence & Security to lead projects ranging from £5m to £150m in Warrington. This role involves managing teams, budgets, and stakeholder relationships while ensuring compliance and high-quality delivery. Ideal candidates will have experience in project management, coaching junior staff, and navigating complex project environments.

Qualifications

• Experience of managing projects typically ranging between £5m and £150m.
• Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues.
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Oversee scope of work and operational workload of projects.
• Manage budgets and produce project plans and schedules.
• Advise stakeholders and report on project progress and risks.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Coaching and mentoring

Risk assessment

Job description

Senior Project Manager - Defence & Security

Arcadis Warrington, England, United Kingdom

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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:

We are excited to growing our project management capability within our UK Defence team

• Roles at this level will operationally manage core projects or programmes of work to deliver defined objectives
• You will be responsible for delivering your 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
• Analyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends. Use own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision-making
• 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:

• Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team and manage more junior staff on technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging between £5m and £150m
• Responsible for setting project delivery approach and plan in consultation with key stakeholders
• Responsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure delivery
• Responsible for performance management of project team / resource
  
  

Required:

• Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills
• Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships
• Experience in managing business relationships at middle-management level
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion
• Ability to obtain BPSS clearance
  
  

Advantageous:

• Experience in NEC Contract Suites
• In depth knowledge of the Defence & Security sector (desirable but not essential)
• Ability to obtain SC clearance
• Ability to obtain DV clearance
  
  

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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