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:
At Arcadis, we're delivering some of the UK's most significant capital investment programmes across infrastructure, transportation and buildings. As our project portfolio continues to grow, we're looking for a talented Cost Management Lead to join our Major Projects team and help clients successfully deliver complex, high-value programmes.
This is an opportunity to work across projects from early business case development through design, construction and handover, providing industry-leading cost management and project controls expertise that drives better outcomes for our clients.
Role accountabilities:
- Leading cost management and cost engineering activities on major infrastructure and transportation projects.
- Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, delivering best-practice project controls solutions.
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across project management, programme controls, cost and commercial, digital intelligence, advisory, design and engineering.
- Supporting the development and implementation of innovative digital cost management solutions.
- Promoting continuous improvement, standardisation and best practice across project controls functions.
- Contributing to the growth of Arcadis' global Project & Programme Controls community.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Proven experience in cost management, cost engineering or project controls within infrastructure, transportation and/or buildings sectors.
- Strong understanding of cost management processes, governance and control systems on complex projects.
- Experience using industry cost management tools such as Deltek Cobra, Congruent, Oracle or similar platforms.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and client-facing communication skills.
- Understanding of how cost management integrates with planning, risk, scope management and wider project controls disciplines.
- Experience working across multiple stages of the project lifecycle.
- Degree or diploma in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
- Professional qualifications or memberships such as APM, RICS, ICEC, MSP or similar
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.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in cost management, cost engineering, or project controls within infrastructure, transportation, or buildings sectors
- Strong understanding of cost management processes, governance, and control systems on complex projects
- Experience using Deltek Cobra, Congruent, Oracle, or similar cost management platforms
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and client-facing communication skills
- Understanding of how cost management integrates with planning, risk, scope management, and wider project controls
- Experience across multiple stages of the project lifecycle
- Degree or diploma in engineering, project management, construction management, quantity surveying, or a related discipline
- Professional qualifications or memberships such as APM, RICS, ICEC, MSP, or similar
Arcadis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcadis and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcadis.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is frequently described as good, with strong medical benefits cited in multiple regions. Feedback suggests healthcare is a relative bright spot within the total rewards package.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) and pension offerings are often called out positively, with contributions viewed as solid. Feedback suggests retirement benefits enhance the overall package even when salary sentiment is mixed.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working arrangements, hybrid options, and wellbeing support (such as EAP and benefits platforms) are commonly highlighted. Feedback suggests the flexibility of the package adds meaningful value beyond base pay.
Arcadis Insights
What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
