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.
As a Project Director, you will lead the delivery of complex rail infrastructure projects and programmes, taking overall responsibility for safe, compliant and commercially successful outcomes. You will set the delivery direction, translate business and client objectives into robust operational and financial plans, and provide senior leadership across client, contractor, partner and design interfaces.
Project & Programme Leadership
Direct the implementation and delivery of complex rail infrastructure projects or programmes, ensuring achievement of agreed scope, programme, cost, quality, safety and assurance outcomes.
Lead teams through complexity, change and challenge, maintaining a clear focus on client outcomes, delivery certainty and Arcadis performance.
Commercial & Financial Leadership
Translate business and client objectives into operational and financial targets, establishing robust delivery plans, budgets, forecasts and programme baselines.
Hold overall accountability for project or programme financial performance, including profitability, cashflow, risk exposure, forecasting and recovery actions.
Lead significant commercial and contractual matters, including NEC3/NEC4 obligations, major change, complex negotiations and key contractual decisions within delegated authority.
Design, Engineering & Assurance Leadership
Ensure delivery complies with relevant Network Rail, HS2, Irish Rail and client-specific technical standards, assurance requirements and approval processes.
Client & Market Leadership
Build and maintain strategic senior relationships with key rail clients and delivery partners, including Network Rail, HS2, Irish Rail, Tier 1 contractors and joint venture organisations.
Act as a trusted advisor at senior client level, providing credible leadership on complex delivery, commercial, stakeholder and assurance matters.
Support portfolio performance, repeat work generation and market growth by shaping delivery strategies, building client confidence in Arcadis’ capability, and contributing to bids and major proposals where appropriate.
Contractor, D&B & Partner Integration
Lead effective integration across client, consultant, contractor and supply chain teams, creating clear interfaces, responsibilities and decision routes.
Resolve complex design, construction and delivery interface issues, balancing delivery certainty, compliance and client outcomes.
Leadership, Capability & Team Performance
Risk, Safety, Health & Sustainability
Take ownership of major delivery, commercial and reputational risks, ensuring that mitigation strategies are established, monitored and adjusted as appropriate.
Governance, Compliance & Assurance
Digital, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Direct the integration of core project management functions, ensuring consistent performance across delivery, commercial, planning, controls, quality and stakeholder management.
Qualifications & Experience
Experience delivering major programmes of significant scale and complexity, for example £50m+ CAPEX or equivalent complexity across scope, stakeholders, risk, interfaces and assurance requirements.
Proven delivery experience within design and build, contractor, Tier 1 contractor, joint venture or comparable delivery partner environments.
Strong commercial, contractual and financial leadership capability, including programme baselines, change control and NEC3/NEC4 contract environments.
Strong familiarity with rail standards, PACE, major programme environments and equivalent client governance, assurance and stage-gate frameworks.
Operates credibly and confidently at Executive, Sponsor and senior client levels, bringing clarity, judgement and authority to strategic discussions.
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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