MEICA Design Manager - Water

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 are currently recruiting for a MEICA Design Manager to join our UK Water team which is involved in some of the UK's most complex and stimulating projects.  Reporting to the Framework Manager or a Technical Director, the successful candidate will provide dynamic leadership and co-ordination to varying size multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring that resources are deployed efficiently, and client expectations are met.  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. This particular role sits within our Resilience team, 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:Proactively managing, at framework or design and build joint venture level, a large multi-disciplined project, or a programme of projects, taking overall responsibility for resource allocation, working with the Framework Manager, Project, or Technical Director to ensure the integrity of the overall design (in collaboration with other design disciplines), quality assurance and client feedbackWorking with our clients and partners to allocate work and taking ownership for the delivery of Arcadis’ programme of worksEnsuring adequate resource for the delivery of the project or programme, strategically recruiting as necessaryBuilding a profile with key clients and partner organisations and maintaining Arcadis’ reputation for high quality, innovative designCommunicating with team members to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, company and client processes, plans and initiativesManage teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs.Manage quality processes. Plan, direct and control tasks, people, and resources.Qualifications & Experience:Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Process Engineering or other directly related degreeChartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as IMechE, IET, IChemE, MICE, or CIWEM Extensive experience of contract, commercial, project & programme managementExtensive experience of working on large design and delivery frameworks and / or design and build projects using digital design.Able to communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds, and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience to best effectAn excellent communicator who enables, promotes, and drives excellence for the ultimate benefit of the clientDesired: Water and/or wastewater experienceWhy 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 & BelongingWe 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.#D&EJob SummaryJob number: 14753Date posted : 2023-06-06Profession: Design & EngineeringEmployment type: FULL_TIME