Resilience Planner

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 Accountabilities: 

In the role of a Resilience Planner, you will take on a diverse range of tasks aimed at supporting planning and engineering studies for both existing and expanding clientele. This involves addressing challenges related to coastal protection, risk assessment, stormwater management, groundwater, benefit-cost analysis, environmental impact, funding, grant management, and social impact analysis, among other resilience needs. Collaboration is key, as you will work closely with integrated, multi-disciplinary teams comprising of planners, engineers, scientists, designers, and other professionals.   

Your duties will include the following: 

• Analyze data and prepare comprehensive reports, both static and dynamic, to communicate results effectively.  
• Simultaneous involvement in various projects, requiring your adeptness at multitasking.   
• Identify and write reports regarding cost-effective environmentally sustainable resilience actions. 
• Engage in both client and project development, where you contribute to proposals and marketing materials.   

We are seeking a motivated individual with robust research, writing, and communication skills and a strong interest in supporting urban and coastal climate adaptation initiatives, including funding and implementation. The ideal candidate excels in both written and verbal communication, brings strong research capabilities, and demonstrates the ability to organize and present data effectively using tools such as Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Strong experience and comfort working in MS Office Software is essential for success in this role. Additionally, this position requires someone adept at managing multiple tasks simultaneously while collaborating seamlessly with multidisciplinary teams to drive successful project outcomes. 

You will support a growing base of projects throughout the country with private, federal, state, and local government clients related to risk assessment, climate adaptation, resilience planning, policy, project development, feasibility studies, and engineering design, as well as project funding and implementation with the support of one of the industry's leading technical and professional staffs.     

Periodic travel to local and potentially national client sites, conferences, or internal workshops is expected, further enriching your experience.   

Qualifications & Experience: 

Required Qualifications   

• 0-5 years' experience  
• Bachelor's in Engineering, Urban Planning, Coastal Sciences, Public Policy, Environmental Science, or related field
• Familiarity working with GIS software (i.e., ESRI or QGIS)  

Preferred Qualifications  

• Working towards Master's in Engineering, Urban Planning, Coastal Sciences, Public Policy, Environmental Science, or related field 
• Experience working in the coastal restoration, flood risk resilience, or infrastructure and resilience grants management fields 
• One or more of the following:  
  • Proficiency with ESRI GIS software, specifically ArcGIS Pro  
  • Experience with dashboarding software such as PowerBI, Airtable, or Tableau  
  • Proficiency with Python, R, Matlab, Fortran, Bash, or related coding languages  

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.

Arcadis offers benefits for full 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 adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start, and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $53,094 - $84,950 per year. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project, and location.