Project Manager - Water Sector AMP8

Arcadis
Leeds
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 have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Water Optimisation team, who deliver for a diverse client base within the Water Industry, including contractors and clients.

In this dynamic role, you will work with a multi-disciplinary team, right at the heart of delivering major UK infrastructure projects . From civil engineering to mechanical and electrical works, this project offers a wide range of challenges and achievements that will elevate your career to the next level.

As part of our Programme and Project Management team, you'll help deliver some of the biggest, most iconic projects imaginable, with some of the best talent around. With your energy, agility and a keen eye for detail, you'll deliver transformational outcomes for multiple clients every day.

Our Resilience team works to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, we're feeling the effects of climate change, rapid urbanisation, and 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:
  • Deliver projects with reasonable complexity, valued up to £100m+, ensuring adherence to budget, quality, and timeline.
  • Ensure timely and accurate data collection, analysis, and reporting.
  • Interpret and communicate project support policies, processes, and systems.
  • Identify and communicate compliance issues related to project processes to project managers.
  • Lead performance management of project teams and resources.
  • Manage and deliver programmes of work to meet defined objectives.
  • Ensure work aligns with budgetary, compliance, regulatory, and planning controls, leveraging significant technical knowledge and experience.
  • Promote a culture of health, safety, and environmental responsibility.
  • Embrace digital and sustainable solutions in day-to-day project delivery.

Qualifications & Experience:
  • Proven track record in project management.
  • Experience in both fast-paced multidisciplinary teams and large single projects is preferred.
  • Experience in successfully delivering portfolios of programmes or projects, ideally in the water sector or regulated industry
  • Relevant engineering degree; postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.
  • Project management qualifications (e.g., APM Q, Prince2) are preferred.
  • Experience with IChemE or NEC Contract Management is a plus.
  • Experience in water and wastewater projects is desirable.

Other requirements:
  • Driving license
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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Posted 2026-04-07

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