District Heating Principal / Senior Strategic 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, 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 worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description :

Arcadis has worked on some of the worlds leading heat network projects and energy masterplanning / transformation schemes, including supporting the Government in pilot studies for heat network zoning and helping to deliver the City of London Corporations Climate Action Strategy. We are looking for an experienced heat network / energy decarbonisation strategic project manager, with a passion for district heating and ambition to help achieve our national heat network deployment targets.

We work to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations. Around the world, were feeling the effects climate change, rapid urbanization, loss of biodiversity. The rate at which were seeing large-scale, unforeseen events such as floods and wildfires, is becoming more frequent. We are here to protect our natural environment and water resources, while powering our world for future generations.

Role accountabilities :

Under the guidance of our UK Heat Networks Lead, this role will be responsible for providing project management, stakeholder engagement and strategy development expertise, in support of building our District Heating Strategic Advisory Services.

At a high-level, the primary focus of this role will be providing a range of services to Local Authority and other public sector clients to progress the development of heat networks in their area, such as the development of heat network development strategies, internal and external stakeholder engagement, governance support, managing implementation of heat network zoning, submitting grant funding applications, management of studies and sub-consultants on behalf of the client, and various other tasks specific to each clients we support.

In addition to this, the role will include key responsibilities and accountabilities to lead on the delivery of high-priority projects, manage and develop existing client relationships, support work winning and key pursuits, and assist internal strategic planning all of which will contribute to growing our ambitious team, in an exciting and quickly developing sector.

Qualifications & Experience :

Required :

• Minimum Masters or Bachelors degree qualification in relevant engineering / technical field, and or project management
• Experience working on district heating schemes and government (BEIS / DESNZ / GLA) grant funded projects at various stages, from heat Masterplanning to detailed feasibility
• Knowledge of the impending heat network zoning regulations in the UK
• Experience working with local authority clients in the UK and an understanding of their governance structures
• Knowledge of the commercial models available to develop heat networks
• Experience conducting stakeholder engagement activities (either internally and / or externally)
• Knowledge of low-carbon heat generation technologies (air, ground, water and river source heat pumps, and electric boilers) and waste heat sources (inc. mechanisms to recover waste heat)
• Experience of interacting with clients and involvement with business development including the development of business cases, define scopes, plan, and delivery of energy projects
• Strong engineering / technical background, with work experience in the energy sector
• Grant funding application and management experience

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