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:
The Senior Design Manager leads integrated design delivery for large, complex, multidisciplinary projects. The role is responsible for aligning design teams, client requirements, technical quality, scope, schedule, cost, risk, constructability, and commercial objectives throughout the project lifecycle.
Role accountabilities:
- Lead the design management and multidisciplinary coordination of major projects and programs.
- Establish design strategy, governance, responsibilities, deliverables, milestones, and coordination processes.
- Direct internal and external architectural, engineering, consultant, contractor, and digital delivery teams.
- Manage design schedules, deliverables, interfaces, technical risks, decisions, assumptions, and changes.
- Integrate design activities with project controls, cost, procurement, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operational requirements.
- Lead client workshops, multidisciplinary design reviews, constructability reviews, value engineering, and stage-gate reviews.
- Ensure designs meet applicable codes, client standards, sustainability requirements, and quality procedures.
- Oversee BIM and digital design coordination, including Common Data Environment workflows and clash management.
- Manage design risks, RFIs, technical queries, changes, field conditions, and other issues impacting design delivery.
- Support pursuits, staffing, budgets, resource planning, scope management, commercial performance, and team development.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of relevant experience, including significant leadership of design delivery on large, complex, multidisciplinary projects.
- Proven experience leading integrated design teams from concept and detailed design through construction, commissioning, and handover.
- Strong knowledge of design management, project controls, scheduling, risk, quality, change control, and commercial management.
- Experience coordinating complex architectural and engineering disciplines and resolving technical and project interfaces.
- Strong client-facing, leadership, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Experience with BIM/digital design coordination and Common Data Environment platforms, such as Autodesk Construction Cloud.
- Experience with design-build, EPC/EPCM, mission-critical, advanced technology, industrial, infrastructure, or other complex projects preferred.
- Professional Architect/Engineer licensure or PMP/comparable certification preferred.
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.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and 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 $92,900-138,240. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, or a related discipline
- 15+ years of relevant experience
- Significant leadership experience delivering design for large, complex, multidisciplinary projects
- Experience leading integrated design teams from concept and detailed design through construction, commissioning, and handover
- Strong knowledge of design management, project controls, scheduling, risk, quality, change control, and commercial management
- Experience coordinating complex architectural and engineering disciplines and resolving technical and project interfaces
- Strong client-facing, leadership, negotiation, and communication skills
- Experience with BIM and digital design coordination
- Experience with Common Data Environment platforms, such as Autodesk Construction Cloud
- Experience with design-build, EPC/EPCM, mission-critical, advanced technology, industrial, infrastructure, or other complex projects
- Professional Architect or Engineer licensure
- PMP or comparable certification
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
