Expression of interest: Principal Civil Design Engineer; Water & Wastewater

Expression of Interest:
Principal Civil Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater)

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Principal Civil Design Engineer (Water & Wastewater) role at Arcadis
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Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 36,000 people in more than 70 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life while tackling complex challenges such as climate change, urbanisation, and biodiversity loss.

We invite you to express your interest in future opportunities for a Principal Civil Engineer to lead our growing team, supporting multiple frameworks across the UK in both Wastewater and Clean Water projects, covering non‑infrastructure and infrastructure. The role will require client liaison, technical leadership and governance and the ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries, both internally and externally, and offers a pathway towards senior management positions.

• Manage a portfolio of multi‑disciplinary projects and/or multi‑scheme programmes of work.
• Build and retain collaborative relationships with the client, stakeholders and other design disciplines.
• Manage quality processes and technical assurance in line with company systems.
• Plan, direct and control tasks, people, resources and outputs.
• Provide technical leadership and direction, taking a proactive role in developing team members to their full potential, leading by example to achieve sector/divisional goals and championing a quality, innovative and entrepreneurial culture.
• Undertake line manager duties and pastoral care for team members.
• Contribute to the resolution of project issues and provide guidance and support to other team members.
• Promote a culture that is proactive on safety, health, quality and sustainability matters.
• Promote a culture of innovation, helping to develop engineering technology and continuous improvement systems.
• Perform other duties as required by your Client Manager or Arcadis senior leadership team.
• Work with other Arcadis teams to foster collaboration, ensuring the collective knowledge and experience is shared across all.

• Degree in Civil Engineering or a directly related degree.
• Chartered or Incorporated Engineer status and membership of a professional institution such as ICE, CIWEM, IWO.
• A technical leader, able to provide direction, support and motivate a diverse team.
• Experience of working on complex design and delivery frameworks and/or design and build projects.
• Strong digital curiosity and/or proficiency.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with people from other partner organisations, backgrounds and disciplines, utilising their knowledge and experience to best effect.
• A working knowledge of managing a project and programme with contract and commercial understanding.

Whilst Manchester, London, Leeds and Birmingham are highlighted as locations, we welcome candidates from other UK locations as well.

We believe everyone’s contribution matters and we provide a skills‑based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximise the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work and help deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

We hold ourselves accountable for equality, diversity and inclusion and work across six ED&I work streams – age, disability, faith, gender, LGBT+ and race – to ensure our workforce reflects the communities we serve.