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City of London, England, United Kingdom • Hybrid
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Lead the delivery of complex rail infrastructure projects, ensuring they are safe, compliant, and commercially successful. Provide senior leadership across client, contractor, and design interfaces while managing financial performance and operational plans.
Requires extensive experience directing major rail programmes (e.g., £50m+ CAPEX) and a proven track record in Design and Build or Tier 1 contractor environments. Must be a Chartered professional with deep knowledge of NEC contracts, CDM 2015, and rail industry standards.
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
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.
Key Accountabilities
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.
Set the overall delivery approach, governance framework and leadership structure, ensuring appropriate controls are in place to assure delivery.
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.
Monitor delivery management performance, ensuring controls, reporting and corrective actions protect Arcadis’ position while supporting successful delivery.
Design, Engineering & Assurance Leadership
Provide senior design leadership and, where appropriate, act as design authority for complex rail infrastructure projects and programmes.
Ensure delivery complies with relevant Network Rail, HS2, Irish Rail and client-specific technical standards, assurance requirements and approval processes.
Embed CDM 2015 duties and “safe by design” principles into design development, optioneering, assurance reviews and delivery decision-making.
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.
Influence strategic project and portfolio decisions, providing senior leadership in resolving sensitive, high-impact or reputationally significant issues.
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.
Act as a senior interface with Tier 1 contractors, joint venture partners and delivery organisations while maintaining clear accountability.
Resolve complex design, construction and delivery interface issues, balancing delivery certainty, compliance and client outcomes.
Leadership, Capability & Team Performance
Lead operational teams by setting clear objectives, managing performance and ensuring that staff have the capability, structure and support needed to deliver successfully.
Provide line leadership, mentoring and development to Associate Project Managers, Senior Project Managers and wider project delivery teams.
Drive a positive, high-performing and inclusive team culture, supporting succession planning and strengthening capability across the project management community.
Risk, Safety, Health & Sustainability
Take ownership of major delivery, commercial and reputational risks, ensuring that mitigation strategies are established, monitored and adjusted as appropriate.
Champion a strong safety, health, environmental and wellbeing culture across project teams and interfaces.
Ensure sustainable and responsible practices are embedded into project strategy, decision-making and delivery execution.
Governance, Compliance & Assurance
Ensure projects are aligned with PACE and relevant client governance, assurance and stage-gate frameworks.
Maintain audit-ready records, decisions, assurance evidence and compliance documentation across the project lifecycle.
Oversee assurance reviews, corrective actions and reporting to support controlled delivery.
Digital, Quality & Continuous Improvement
Direct the integration of core project management functions, ensuring consistent performance across delivery, commercial, planning, controls, quality and stakeholder management.
Promote the effective use of digital tools, data and delivery systems to improve performance, insight and client value.
Lead continuous improvement by embedding lessons learnt, improving project delivery practices and strengthening project management standards across complex work.
Qualifications & Experience
Extensive experience managing and directing complex rail infrastructure or built-environment projects and programmes.
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.
Clear knowledge and practical application of CDM 2015 duties, including safe by design principles.
Demonstrated ability to shape project delivery strategy, strengthen capability and lead cultural and operational improvements.
Chartered professional status with a recognised institution.
Personal Attributes
Provides visible safety leadership in complex, multidisciplinary and high-pressure delivery environments.
Operates credibly and confidently at Executive, Sponsor and senior client levels, bringing clarity, judgement and authority to strategic discussions.
Manages complex stakeholder, commercial and delivery pressures with resilience, sound judgement and a collaborative leadership style.
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.
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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Arcadis is a leading global partner, delivering transformative projects with businesses, cities and industries. With 36,000 people active in more than 30 countries, we bring together the best minds from around the world to deliver intelligent products and solutions that address the challenges of climate, energy security and diversification, and livable cities. We take design, engineering, architecture and consultancy to the next level, advising clients at every step of every project. From strategy and planning through to implementation and delivery, we combine our human and digital intelligence to co-create environments that reflect our clients’ business and stakeholder needs. From creating a citywide sustainable legacy during and after the Paris Olympics to revolutionizing urban transit worldwide with metro systems from Sydney to Toronto, or securing clean drinking water for communities across more than 30 U.S. states, our world-changing solutions leave a positive and lasting impact. Our work has helped more than a third of the world's communities become more resilient, and hundreds of clients to advance their decarbonization and net-zero goals. Together, we are committed to solving today's greatest problems; creating a blueprint for a better future, designed to thrive. Arcadis. Improving quality of life.
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