Technical Project Manager (Highways)

Arcadis; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis in Glasgow is seeking a Technical Manager (Senior/Principal) to join their Highways team. You will play a key role in delivering complex infrastructure projects, ensuring successful outcomes across quality, cost, and programme.

The ideal candidate will have a degree in Civil or Structural Engineering and experience leading multidisciplinary teams. The role offers the opportunity to manage project delivery while promoting a positive culture of safety and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering highways or infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of contract, scope, risk and change management.
• Experience working with NEC4 contracts is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across project lifecycle.
• Manage delivery of project outcomes in line with expectations.
• Lead teams of engineers across multiple locations.

Skills

Project management

Technical leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Commercial awareness

Risk management

Education

Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering

Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer

Job description

Role Description

We partner with clients across the globe to design thriving, connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanisation and digitisation trends require today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies and optimise the mobility of people and goods. In Engineering, you will create some of the world’s most iconic and ground‑breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together.

We are seeking a Technical Manager (Senior/Principal) to join our Highways team, playing a key role in delivering complex infrastructure projects while supporting the growth of our people and client relationships. In this role, you will take ownership for the delivery of highways projects or work packages, ensuring successful outcomes across quality, cost and programme, while balancing technical excellence with commercial and contractual awareness. You will lead teams of engineers across multiple locations, overseeing the design of complex major highways schemes, taking ownership of the design and design reviews.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and direction across all stages of the project lifecycle
• Take responsibility for delivering project outcomes in line with scope, programme, cost and quality expectations
• Promote a positive culture of health, safety and wellbeing
• Manage the delivery of contractual obligations, either as Project Manager or Design Manager, working collaboratively within the Arcadis Business Management System (BMS)
• Contribute to the effective management of scope, risk and change, ensuring impacts are understood and proactively addressed
• Support the management of project risk, opportunities and change, contributing to robust decision‑making
• Lead and support project teams (typically 5–15 engineers and technicians), including sub‑consultants
• Oversee resource planning and workload management to ensure efficient delivery
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, contributing to a high standard of client care
• Support quality assurance, verification checking and interdisciplinary design reviews
• Contribute to proposals, technical development and continuous improvement initiatives

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (or equivalent)
• Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer (or equivalent)
• Experience delivering highways or infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle, including option assessment, statutory processes, preliminary and detailed design
• Strong, practical understanding of contract, scope, risk and change management within project delivery
• Experience working with, or understanding of, NEC4 contracts would be advantageous
• Demonstrable experience in leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating delivery
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of project performance drivers
• Commitment to continuous professional development and industry engagement

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.