Job Identification: 702
Job Category: Project & program management
Locations: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Posting Date: 11/21/2021, 02:01 PM
Apply Before: 12/05/2021, 02:01 PM
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Description
At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.
One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.
Role accountabilities:
• Work within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans, schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets.
• Deliver/assist to manage medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards.
• Contribute to reviews of shop drawings in coordination with design manager and any design consultants.
• Manage quality assurance on site with periodic inspections of construction activities.
• Analyse and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support project decision-making.
• Use knowledge and experience to review project processes and policies, providing advice to support management in developing and improving processes and systems.
• Interact effectively across the organisation, completing complex professional level tasks for others in order to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations.
• Advise colleagues on issues relating to own projects, providing subject matter advice in order to support delivery and ensure there is alignment between policy and operational practice.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, consultants and contractors, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations
• Accountable for delivery of a project complexity up to AED300m in value - to budget, quality and time metrics
• Responsible for interpreting and communicating project support policies, processes and systems.
• Responsible for monitoring and escalation of project management KPIs and performance metrics.
• Responsible for communicating and highlighting project process compliance issues to project managers
• Responsible for performance management of project team / resource.
Qualifications & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Attainment of OR near attainment of relevant professional certification or chartered status.
• Relevant business experience including management of medium to large sized building projects.
• 10 years plus experience in medium to large scale projects.
• Experience of high end projects such as five star hotels, commercial offices, museums.
• All round experience of building projects including: civil, structure, facade, finishes.
• ‘Practitioner’ level expertise in one or more service lines.
• Good communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships.
• Building the ability to negotiate and manage relationships with external stakeholders.
• Commercial acumen and organisational understanding.
• A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to co-ordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects.
• Knowledge of own area and a general understanding of wider programme and business.
Why Become an Arcadian?
Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.
We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.
As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.
To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.
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.
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