Project Task Manager

Arcadis; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Project Task Manager to join the west coast Environmental Team. This full-time role focuses on coordinating environmental, biological, and cultural surveys and monitoring, serving as a bridge between project managers, field personnel, subcontractors, Tribal representatives, and clients.

You will coordinate field activities, manage schedules and staffing, track permits and land access, support Tribal engagement, and maintain reporting systems to ensure safe and efficient

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in the environmental industry.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Experience coordinating environmental, cultural resource, biological, construction, or utility-related field programs.
• Strong focus on health and safety, ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate field activities and staffing plans across projects.
• Manage schedules, staffing, permits, and land access requirements.
• Support Tribal and stakeholder engagement efforts and client communications.
• Monitor project progress and maintain project documentation and reporting systems.
• Ensure field operations are staffed, compliant, organized, and executed safely.
• Support project controls, risk management, and quality assurance.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder coordination

Health and safety focus

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Biology/Environmental Science/Engineering

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

Arcadis is seeking a Project Task Manager to join the west coast Environmental Team. As Project Task Manager, you will collaborate with a dynamic and growing team to support the successful planning, coordination, and execution of environmental, biological and cultural surveys and monitoring. This role is ideal for a highly organized and proactive individual seeking career growth in project management, field operations, and stakeholder coordination.

In this full-time position, you will serve as a key link between project managers, field personnel, subcontractors, Tribal representatives, and clients. Your responsibilities will primarily involve office-based project coordination.

You will be responsible for coordinating field activities, managing schedules and staffing plans, tracking permits and land access requirements, supporting Tribal and stakeholder engagement efforts, monitoring project progress, and maintaining project documentation and reporting systems. Working across multiple projects and supporting various project managers, you will help ensure field operations are appropriately staffed, compliant, organized, and executed safely and efficiently.

This role offers the opportunity to develop and strengthen the core skills necessary for a successful project management career, including project controls, resource planning, stakeholder coordination, regulatory compliance, subcontractor management, field logistics, and client communication, while contributing to the successful delivery of complex environmental and infrastructure projects.

Role accountabilities

As a Project Task Manager you will play a key role as part of a collaborative team, contributing to the planning, management, and execution of various project scopes. Successful candidates for this position will have prior experience supporting utility, environmental, cultural resource, or infrastructure projects, coordinating Tribal monitoring programs, working with government agencies and external stakeholders, and maintaining project tracking and reporting systems. Experience managing field logistics, workforce scheduling, permit compliance, and subcontractor coordination is also highly valued.

This position requires a proactive, detail-oriented individual who thrives in a collaborative team environment and is committed to supporting the successful delivery of complex environmental and infrastructure projects while advancing their career in environmental consulting and project management. Your daily/weekly activities will be primarily office-based work, with the potential to conduct site field visits throughout California and west coast.

Your typical responsibilities will include:

• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all field activities are conducted in accordance with applicable Environmental Release to Construction (ERTC) measures, permit conditions, client requirements, and regulatory commitments.
• Indigenous & Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate with Tribal representatives, Tribal Monitors, local stakeholders, and property owners to ensure biological and cultural resource protection requirements and stakeholder commitments are met.
• Field Logistics & Resource Planning: Develop and manage field schedules for Arcadis staff, subcontractors, cultural and biological monitors, surveyors, and other project resources.
• Project Communications: Serve as the primary communication liaison between project management, field teams, subcontractors, clients, and stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate information sharing.
• Issue Resolution & Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and resolve field-related challenges such as access constraints, permitting issues, scheduling conflicts, resource availability, or stakeholder concerns to minimize project impacts.
• Project Tracking & Reporting: Maintain project information and progress tracking within internal and client-facing SharePoint systems. Prepare status updates, progress reports, action item logs, and project documentation to support project delivery.
• Quality Assurance: Monitor project activities to ensure work is completed in accordance with project requirements, scope, schedules, safety expectations, and quality standards.

This role offers a diverse mix of responsibilities, providing opportunities to contribute meaningfully to a variety of environmental projects.

Qualifications & Experience

• 4+ years of experience in the environmental industry
• Bachelor’s Degree in Biology, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a closely related field.
• Previous experience coordinating environmental, cultural resource, biological, construction, or utility-related field programs
• Strong focus on health and safety, with the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with tribal representatives, government agencies, landowners and other external stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple simultaneous field activities and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams, subcontractors, and field personnel in a dynamic project environment.
• This position requires a dynamic individual with relevant experience who is ready to contribute to a team-oriented environment while advancing their career in environmental consulting.

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. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

Benefits and Compensation

• medical
• dental
• vision
• EAP
• 401K
• STD
• LTD
• AD&D
• life insurance
• paid parental leave
• reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits
• adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement

We offer nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year.

The salary range for this position is $82,080 - $123,120. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.