Senior Project Manager Major Projects

Arcadis; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis in Glasgow is seeking a high-calibre Senior Project Manager to lead and deliver complex, high-value infrastructure projects. This role is essential for overseeing multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring successful project completion within governance frameworks.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record in delivering large scale infrastructure projects, excellent client-facing and leadership skills, and relevant qualifications in project management or civil engineering.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in successfully delivering major (£500m+) infrastructure or highways projects.
• Extensive experience in leading multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong client-facing skills with a commercial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of project delivery from mobilisation to completion.
• Lead large-scale highway infrastructure projects, ensuring technical excellence.
• Manage all aspects of project governance including scope and quality management.

Skills

Project governance

Client-facing skills

Multidisciplinary team leadership

Financial management

Digital delivery tools

Education

Relevant degree (e.g., Civil Engineering, Project Management)

Professional accreditation (e.g., APM, RICS, ICE)

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.

Role Description

We are seeking a high-calibre Senior Project Manager to join our UK Highways and Transportation business unit, part of a global engineering consultancy renowned for delivering transformative infrastructure projects. This role is pivotal in leading and delivering some of the most complex and high-value (£500m+) multi-disciplinary highways projects in the UK and internationally.

Key Accountabilities

• Take full ownership of project delivery – from mobilisation through to successful completion – ensuring technical excellence, commercial performance, and client satisfaction.
• Lead large-scale highway infrastructure projects, often as part of major design & build programmes in collaboration with Tier 1 contractors.
• Build and manage effective working relationships with contractor clients, providing proactive leadership to ensure project expectations are met or exceeded.
• Drive multidisciplinary teams (both UK-based and overseas) to deliver integrated solutions in a collaborative and commercially aware environment.
• Manage all aspects of project governance including scope, cost, schedule, risk, and quality management.
• Support business growth through client development, project opportunities, and mentoring of emerging project managers within the team.

Qualifications And Experience

• Proven track record in successfully delivering major (£500m+) infrastructure or highways projects, ideally in a design & build context.
• Extensive experience in leading multidisciplinary project teams, including remote or offshore delivery partners.
• Strong client-facing skills with a commercial mindset and ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments.
• Deep understanding of project governance, risk, contracts (NEC/JCT), and financial management.
• Relevant degree (e.g., Civil Engineering, Project Management) and professional accreditation (e.g., APM, RICS, ICE or similar).
• Experience with international highway/infrastructure projects.
• Familiarity with working in a global consultancy or contractor environment.
• Experience of digital delivery and modern project control tools.

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.