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:
We are looking for a Design Manager with experience in working within the Defence or Technology sectors who can work at the business end of design. You will be part of the Design Project Management team within the Arcadis Places Design Practice. Both of which are on an exciting journey and looking to expand their resources.
A key function of the role is to guide the design teams (both internal and external) to meet the Client’s scope considering budget and resource requirements alongside required timescales. Ability to engage appropriately and positively with our Clients and their stakeholders is key and being able to work closely with the Arcadis Project Manager is essential.
You will need to facilitate meetings & workshops, identify design and project risks throughout the project lifecycle. Be able to confidently and coherently coordinate design activities with procurement, planners, environmental, construction & operations teams and provide a positive direction for the projects that you work on.
Role accountabilities:
- To work with the Arcadis Project Manager to achieve the required outcome for the client and Arcadis.
- To manage the technical delivery and integration of multi-disciplinary design projects, providing leadership, direction and delivery excellence.
- To drive high-quality design decisions made through promoting a culture of collaboration, challenge, innovation, and creativity across the delivery team.
- Understand PM concepts, tools and techniques.
- To use interpersonal and influencing skills to support successful outcomes.
- Work in an environment of constantly changing priorities and managing these priorities.
- Understand the challenges associated with multi-discipline, complex engineering problems and can plan, manage and implement solutions.
Qualifications & Experience:
- BA/BSc/BEng or MA/MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline+
- Previous experience within Defence and/or Technology sector desirable
- Chartered or equivalent professional accreditation recommended
- Ideally previous Design Management experience within a Client/Consultancy environment
- Knowledge and experience of BIM led design and Autodesk suite of products.
- Strong Focus on Integration, Stakeholder & Communication Management Skills
- Awareness of using programme software applications
- Excellent written English and technical report writing skills is essential
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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Skills Required
- BA, BSc, BEng, MA, MSc, MEng, or equivalent qualification in a relevant discipline
- Previous experience within the Defence or Technology sector
- Chartered or equivalent professional accreditation
- Previous Design Management experience within a client or consultancy environment
- Knowledge and experience of BIM-led design and Autodesk suite products
- Strong integration, stakeholder management, and communication skills
- Awareness of programme software applications
- Excellent written English and technical report-writing skills
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 — Healthcare is considered a strong point, with medical coverage frequently called out as better than average and a highlight of the package. Mentions of robust health insurance recur across regions.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are viewed positively, with 401(k)/pension support and matching often cited as valuable parts of the total rewards. This support is repeatedly described as a relative strength compared with base pay.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off are often described as good, with PTO/vacation highlighted as a positive element of the benefits. Generous time off is noted alongside strong work-life balance and hybrid flexibility.
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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
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