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
Working within our Design & Engineering teams, you'll 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.
The role sits within our Resilience Global Business Area. We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we’re feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which we’re seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.
Role Accountabilities
- Encourage SHE feedback and take a lead in solving SHE issues.
- Build strong working relationships with other teams and technical disciplines, Arcadis offices and external organisations to foster cooperation and to identify cross-sell and trade-up opportunities.
- Engage with and champions the involvement and inclusion of Arcadis Global resources ensuring that local staff understand the benefits of their utilisation as team resources.
- Support technical direction at a subject level.
- Manage discipline department staff.
- Lead the delivery of projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues.
- Select, lead and develop the project team, to ensure they have the necessary skills to deliver the project, they understand and are engaged with the project strategy, brief and client requirements, and to manage their delivery of project objectives.
- Coordinate and manage project teams and large size projects of single (own) discipline engineers or mid - large size multi disciplinary project teams, ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management and good communication and collaboration between Arcadis colleagues.
- Coach and mentor engineering professionals to support the development of Arcadis’ talent pool.
- Manage the commercial aspects of the project (contract, invoicing, debt, client management).
- Ensure that effective financial and project management controls are in place and deployed to enable monitoring, modification and forecasting as appropriate.
- Drive project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes and undertake reviews, ensuring client delivery is above expectation.
- Communicate with project team members to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, the project strategy, brief and client requirements.
- Manage the acquisition, deployment and management of resources for the project to ensure optimal resource allocation for the project.
- Responsible for the selection and management of suppliers, sub-consultants and contractors associated with projects.
- Provide specialised technical input to major/complex studies and design for staff's specific area of expertise
- Develop and propose potential solutions, including solutions that fall outside the standard codes where appropriate, to meet or exceed client expectations. Guide clients through the technical decision making process and provide alternative solutions if there are changes to project parameters.
- Resolves differences of opinion between designers and checkers.
- Lead interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables.
- Perform independent technical review for projects of moderate complexity.
- Build strong working relationships with other teams and technical disciplines, Arcadis offices and external organisations to foster cooperation and to identify cross-sell and trade-up opportunities.
- Engage with the client and all key stakeholders to develop a shared understanding of project objectives and to establish protocols for working together.
- Manage technical client relationships and plays a major role in pursuits.
- Lead technical business development work.
- Provide input into specific technical aspects of individual bids to support the production of high quality winning bids.
- Keep up to date with developments in the industry sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at a National level (e.g. conference presentations, publications and participation in technical committees).
- Maintain records of Continuing Professional Development and are able to make these available for audit by their professional institution.
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum of 15 years of Main Plant system design experience in the electricity transmission & distribution sector, with at least 7 of those years being on UK transmission system related projects.
- Knowledge of engineering design management best practices with ability to implement this knowledge
- Understanding of the requirements of relevant UK Health & Safety legislation relating to design and construction work in the electricity supply industry.
- Thorough understanding of current Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.
- Experience of working in a lead substation design role on SPEN and SSEN projects in the UK.
- Good working knowledge of SPEN and SSEN policies and procedures.
- Thorough knowledge and experience applying SPEN, SSEN, National Grids Technical Specification, Technical Guidance Notes, and Design Handbooks relating to substation design in the UK.
- IT literate, with good knowledge of using Microsoft Office applications.
- Knowledge of applying CAD technology/software to substation design
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Strong persuasion and negotiation skills with clients and employees.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders across clients, industry, government and public.
- Able to manage tasks on multiple projects and conflicting deadlines.
- Able to work autonomously and/or as part of a project team.
- Pro-active in building knowledge and understanding of the electricity transmission and distribution industry.
- Capability to coach, develop and record CPD and encourage others in the team to do so
- Engaged in the engineering community and how we can drive success for our clients.
- Ability to develop innovative and practical solutions to a range of problems, and an understanding of how one issue may be part of a much larger solution.
- Ability to make an effective and collaborative contribution to the team through sharing knowledge, promoting ideas, and valuing the contribution of all team members
- Promote continuous improvement in "Safe by Design
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.
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.
Join Arcadis. Create a legacy.
