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Project Manager - EducationArcadis • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Project Manager - Education

Project Manager - Education

Arcadis • Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
4 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
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

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our established Education sector team. This role focuses on delivering Department for Education projects, with a particular emphasis on school rebuild and refurbishment. You will manage a varied workload, balancing multiple instructions and ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and in line with compliance and planning controls. The role requires technical excellence and direct client engagement.

Role Accountabilities
  • Oversee project scope and operational workload, ensuring resources are fully utilised to deliver agreed programmes
  • Independently produce plans and schedules, track and manage budgets, and highlight variances to control project delivery
  • Deliver multiple projects, ensuring optimal use of resources to meet deadlines and project requirements
  • Present project risks and issues to senior managers and ensure compliance standards are maintained
  • Analyse project data to identify trends and provide recommendations for decision-making and process improvement
  • Apply industry best practices to review project processes and policies, supporting continuous improvement
  • Collaborate across teams and maintain communication with clients and stakeholders to keep them informed on project progress
  • Advise senior management on project-related issues, providing technical expertise to support successful delivery

Qualifications & Experience
  • Project management experience in school rebuild or refurbishment
  • Department for Education experience highly desirable
  • Experience managing medium complexity projects
  • MRICS, MAPM or equivalent
  • Confident engaging directly with clients and stakeholders

If you have construction knowledge and experience successfully managing the complexities of Education, schools, laboratory, or museum projects, working closely with tradespeople to deliver high-quality outcomes, we want to hear from you.

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 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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