Interface Manager

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36,000 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.

Role description:

The role will primarily be to co-ordinate internal Asset Protection and Optimisation (APSRO) and wider Network Rail involvement with various schemes, along with implementation of contractual agreements, offering customer guidance and advice along with facilitating cost recoveries. Responsible for managing the safe and effective delivery of projects, to deliver key outputs of programmes in order to meet client requirements to time, cost, quality, and performance.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead an operational team, managing people to deliver the required outputs and standards of delivery and/or mentor, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of colleagues in order to achieve project objectives and continuously improve results
• Accountable for delivery of Works Delivery projects in a safe and environmentally responsible manner to time, cost and quality, in accordance with the Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment (PACE), and or Governance of Railway Investment Projects (GRIP), applicable Network Rail company standards, current legislation and procedures including HMRI guidance where appropriate.
• Work closely with Portfolio Managers and Project Managers to lead, inspire, direct and develop specialist teams to deliver successful projects to meet route objectives for internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage and implement Construction Design Management (CDM) requirements associated with projects to deliver compliance to regulations.
• Direct multi-disciplinary teams including commercial, programme controls, engineering, and others to identify solutions to client requirements and establish a robust baseline plan to manage and maintain the plans to project completion.
• Identify and Implement the management of resource planning for current and projected work banks, including identification and management of critical resource requirements.
• Support the Portfolio Manager or Project Manager in preparing and maintaining definitions of the project requirements across the project lifecycle, as well as updating business cases that justify projects in terms of benefits, costs and risks in collaboration with clients.
• Manage stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests.
• Manage project reviews at appropriate points throughout project lifecycle which inform governance decisions of projects by identifying, monitoring and providing evaluations of progress, performance, risk (threats and opportunities) contingency, and continuing relevance.  Plan and implement mitigations to them, responding to other issues that affect the projects and associated programmes.
• Manage change control in collaboration with clients and contractors by establishing, and implementing where necessary, protocols to change the scope of projects and update configuration documents as required, in accordance with rail processes.
• Support accident investigations when remitted to by the relevant designated competent person

Qualifications & Experience:

• Demonstrable stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Successful relevant experience including experience of contracting and project delivery
• In depth knowledge and previous experience of project budget management
• Able to demonstrate effective evaluation and decision-making skills
• Successful previous experience of safety management in project delivery
• Detailed knowledge of Health and Safety legislation
• Successful experience and detailed knowledge of the application of Construction Design Management (CDM) regulations
• Understanding of Rail accident investigation processes and procedures
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Relevant professional membership and qualification or chartered status

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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