Senior Federal and Climate Adaptation Project Manager

3 weeks ago


New York NY, United States Arcadis Full time

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 currently seeking a technically proficient engineer with a minimum of 10 years experience to serve as a Senior Federal and Climate Adaptation Project Manager (Senior Project Manager) for federal projects related to climate adaptation. As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead and support select federal accounts and project teams of engineers, urban designers, and specialist consultants in planning and designing a wide range of structural and nature-based measures to address climate change-related risk to people and infrastructure, such as coastal waterfront facilities; surface and underground transit systems; drainage, sewer, and dry utility systems; emergency operations facilities; buildings; and public spaces.   The role requires understanding, synthesizing, and balancing multiple problems, objectives, opportunities, constraints, and considerations present in densely developed, aged, and heavily used urban waterfronts, along with multi-disciplinary needs to develop solutions favorable to the client and to stakeholders, in alignment with federal program requirements. Primary objectives include risk reduction, cost effectiveness, adaptability, and respect for the public realm, historic resources, and environmental resources. Role accountabilities: Leadership: Function as an account lead and project manager as part of a delivery team on select federal, state, and / or municipal climate adaptation-related contracts. This will entail ensuring technical leadership and quality control is in place for diverse, multidisciplinary delivery teams throughout all phases of a project including planning, design, and construction.   Client Liaison: Functioning as the primary interface between the client staff and the consultant team. You will engage with the client regularly from a position of familiarity with the consultant team’s advances and actively participate in knowledge sharing, brainstorming, and work planning with client staff. Part of this responsibility will be to manage existing and an expanding base of clients by meeting or exceeding their expectations, by delivering quality work, and through active communication.Project Management: Function as the project manager in establishing meeting project schedules, budgets, and quality objectives; assigning and monitoring of tasks; and ensuring adequate resources to deliver the work. The ideal candidate must be able to work on a variety of projects simultaneously, as well as providing technical expertise and experience on other related projects.  Miscellaneous: Mentor junior-level technical staff.  Qualifications & Experience: Demonstrated experience with U.S. Army Corp of Engineering and / or other federal projects  Engineering degree in Structural, Geotechnical, Coastal, Marine, Environmental, and/or Civil Engineering or related  Current NY PE License 10 years related experience  Key Attributes and Skills:  Technical proficiency in at least two of the following practices: coastal engineering, urban drainage systems, seismic structural engineering, marine structural engineering, seismic geotechnical engineering, civil engineering (utility and/or mobility systems), heavy civil engineering, and/or building systems.  Strong knowledge of construction materials, products, systems, means and methods.  Exceptional problem-solving skills at both the macro and the micro level.   Strong ability to make engineering judgement decisions to facilitate progress of the work.  Strong ability to pivot and recalibrate the work due to findings and/or changed objectives and inputs.  Strong ability to work with remote technical resources and to use digital tools to communicate ideas. Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.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 do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, 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 & 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 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.Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $122,000 - $183,000.#LI-ET1#Water-NA-WM



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