Assistant Project Manager

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:

Arcadis is seeking a proactive Assistant Project Manager to provide comprehensive support to the Project Manager and Senior Project Manager on key project activities. This position plays a crucial part in ensuring smooth project delivery by managing schedules, budgets, and communications, while also stepping in to cover critical tasks during conflicting meetings or absences. The successful candidate will engage closely with design teams, commercial functions, and clients, contributing to the overall success and compliance of projects.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you will support schedule management by coordinating closely with design managers and coordinators to gather updates and work alongside the lead scheduler to communicate progress and changes effectively to the client. You will assist in preparing resource forecasts, justifying any fluctuations, and maintaining alignment with project needs.

You will support the change management process by liaising with the commercial team to ensure all variations are documented and processed accurately. Additionally, you will assist with budget assignments and project controls, including earned value analysis and monitoring cost and schedule performance indices (CPI/SPI).

You will be responsible for managing health and safety processes, ensuring compliance across the project team, and overseeing the timely review and submission of weekly timesheets. Managing travel and expense forecasts, maintaining the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and task codes in Uniphi, and conducting cost and financial analyses from Uniphi and Oracle will also be key components of your role.

In this position, you will attend and present at client meetings as required, handle payment application processes, and perform various administrative duties such as preparing meeting minutes and supporting ad hoc project requirements.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related field
• Proven experience supporting project management teams in a construction, engineering, or design environment
• Strong knowledge of project scheduling tools and experience coordinating schedule updates
• Familiarity with resource forecasting and budget management processes
• Experience with change management and commercial contract coordination
• Proficient in project controls concepts, including earned value management (EVM), CPI, and SPI
• Experience managing health and safety compliance within projects
• Skilled in financial software and reporting tools such as Uniphi and Oracle
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for client interactions
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple administrative tasks efficiently

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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. 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.