Senior Engineer

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:
Based in the UK, we have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Engineer to join our Asset Managment Advisory team.

Reporting to the Associate Director responsible for Asset Management within our Energy and Water Business Area, you will be drawn from an engineering background and be a key member of the team that resides within the Resilience part of Arcadis. Although the function sits within Water and Energy the group is looking to expand into other areas and work across multiple functions.

Role accountabilities:
You will be part of a team and manage and direct more junior staff, whilst providing both leadership and technical guidance. You will play a vital role in growing the business and creating opportunity. Additional responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

Applying your skills, knowledge, and insight to oversee the delivery of projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations.

• Providing Technical Support and expertise within Asset Management Life Cycle, ranging from Technical Project Specification, to use off phase and asset optimisation, and demonstrating an understanding of asset life cycles.
• Being able to work on projects with existing and new clients, bringing real life examples and experience to bear.
• Being flexible in your approach and ability to work effectively across sectors and industries as part of a team or individually, leading small-medium sized projects or sub-projects.
• Generating project plans and benefit cases
• Promoting and marketing all facets of the company's services during client interfaces and generally
• Encouraging innovative and entrepreneurial thinking among team members
• Guiding the development of the team with succession planning, CPD, mentoring and building an effective graduate development structure through relevant professional development programmes.
• Identifying and contributing to thought leadership opportunities.
• Engaging with and utilising fully the Global Excellence Centres (GECs) as key members and resources of your business teams, and as a seamless part of our service offering

Requirements, Qualifications:

• Significant experience of working at a senior level from an industry or consultancy background - candidates with a wider regulated industry background will also be considered including a those from other sectors
• Previous experience of delivering asset management led projects or working within an asset operations environment would be beneficial
• A good level of design knowledge would be beneficial
• A background with Asset management , an understanding to a practitioner level within Reliability Centred Maintenance approach, ISO55001 or similar would be of benefit.
• Understanding of FMECA and Lean Principles would be beneficial
• Good level of understanding of Legislation compliance and structured Risk assessments (e.g. HAZOP / HAZID studies) would be beneficial
• Experience within change programme and wider business transformation would be advantageous
• Demonstratable experience in the use of digital approaches and data analytics and how to development the systems would be advantageous
• Ability and enthusiasm to build teams and accounts through a highly collaborative approach
• Demonstrated ability lead a team with good influencing, motivating and delegation skills.
• Confident communicator and strong relationship building skills, both internally and externally.
• A willingness to work in client co-located offices and teams.
• The confidence and flexibility to thrive in the delivery of projects in structured and unstructured work environments.
• An engineering, mathematics, or science-based degree
• Chartered Engineer status or membership of a relevant Professional Institution (e.g., MICE, MIMechE, MCIWEM, MAPM, MIAM, MIChemE)

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.

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 equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. 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; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.