Principal Highway Engineer

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.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

In Engineering, you'll create some of the world’s most iconic and ground-breaking structures and spaces that transform the world around us, from making journeys easier to opening up public places that bring people together. 

Job Purpose: 

A Principal Highways Engineer will be responsible for managing technical aspects of larger highways projects or components of major projects, meeting financial, quality and time objectives and meeting or exceeding client expectations. They may undertake a Project Management Role or a Design Manager Role in line with the relevant Arcadis competence requirements and work alongside team leadership. They will also manage the delivery of Highways projects in accordance with Arcadis management systems to meet time, quality, budgetary and health and safety targets, working to ensure maximum client satisfaction, championing client care and proactively supporting the client. A Principal Engineer will also promote the culture of the business. 

Key Accountabilities:

• Promote Health, Safety and Well-being good practice within team
• Work collaboratively with other design disciplines within an agreed engineering management environment to integrate the overall design or solution
• Maintain strong working relationship with aligned Arcadis Global resources and ensures that local staff work effectively with Global Design colleagues
• Develop and maintain a good understanding of the services delivered by Arcadis, of the client’s business and the industry sector to facilitate personal networking and to consolidate personal and company credibility in the industry
• Oversee an agreed scope of work and the operational workload of a project team including sub-contractors, ensuring work is allocated appropriately and resources are fully utilised 
• Manage the performance of team members and sub-contractors 
• Present and gain agreement of design options and opportunities to maximise the profitability of design components and drive the implementation of these 
• Provide technical advice to team members, to support them in their delivery on the project and in their professional development
• When undertaking the role of a Project Manager:
  • Manage commercial aspects of the project 
  • Drive project performance, service delivery and technical and commercial outcomes 
  • Communicate with team members to ensure that they understand, and become engaged with, the project strategy 
  • Manage the deployment of resources for the project 
  • Work collaboratively with other design disciplines to ensure the integration of the overall design or solution and manage the production of, and quality assurance of the design 
  • Lead interdisciplinary reviews of project deliverables on behalf of engineering discipline 
• Keep up to date with developments in the Highways and wider transportation sector and with technical and legislative developments and seek out opportunities to develop a strong professional profile at a national level (e.g. conference presentations, publications and participation in technical committees)
• Maintain records of Continuing Professional Development and can make these available for audit by their professional institution

Dimensions of the job:

A Principal Engineer will typically be assigned to provide a controlling technical role on medium size, moderately complex projects in a single discipline. They will coordinate and manage project teams of 5 to 10 engineers and technicians and will be responsible for technical delivery of medium size projects or elements of larger projects with fee levels of typically in range of £100K - £500K. When undertaking the role of a Project Manager, they will also be responsible for the successful delivery of several lower category projects or a higher category project under mentoring where necessary.

Key Qualifications and Experience: 

Have a BSc/BEng or MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Achieved Chartered or Incorporated Engineer professional status, or equivalent

Relevant experience including supervision of elements of large, complex projects and/or working in a project management role, have project management experience

A Principal Engineer will be able to lead and provide direction and technical advice to team members, to support them in their delivery on the project and in their professional development. They will be able to identify the limits of both their personal knowledge and skills the limits of their team's skill and knowledge and exercise sound holistic independent judgement and take responsibility.

They will also understand and comply with the Code of Conduct operated by their professional institution, plan, carry out and record CPD and encourage others in their professional development including engaging with activities promoted by professional institutions.

A Principal Engineer shall communicate well with others at all levels including effective use of English orally and in writing including being able to discuss ideas and plan competently and with confidence. 

They will also understand how to manage health, safety and welfare within their own area of responsibility and be experienced in leading, and working with, people from varied discipline, backgrounds and cultures. They will manage teams and develop staff to meet changing technical and managerial needs, manage quality processes and provide technical ownership of the project. They will be able to provide input to estimates for the engineering budget and schedule and to oversee technical resources to meet requirements on large, straightforward projects.  

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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