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    Senior Project Director - Atlanta, United States - Arcadis Global

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    Description
    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:


    Arcadis seeks a Senior Design-Build Project Director to join our North America Mobility team to develop and deliver a strong and coherent business unit strategy and business plan, aligning with the overall Global and North America strategy.

    The Project Director will ensure projects are managed and delivered profitably, monitor project risks, and implement technical innovations to help our contracting partners win and deliver Design-Build projects.

    The Project Director will oversee the project team(s) and be responsible for both the tender phase and the detailed design phase.

    Responsibilities include overseeing the success, management, and mentoring of the practice staff (project managers) to achieve operating metrics including financial performance, strategy development, delivering high-quality projects and work products, technology leadership, and client/account development.

    Responsible for health and safety stewardship, cross-selling, business development strategies, compliance with company policies and procedures, and training development. The right candidate possesses an elevated level of intellectual, professional, and interpersonal agility and flexibility.

    Role accountabilities:
    The Project Director will supervise Project Managers on Design-Build projects to guide and mentor them to achieve project goals.

    Manage "levers" for project performance via leading indicators - these are the basis to trigger increasing levels of intervention for variance.


    • Consistent project performance management vs "as sold" with solid forecasting, including non-financial execution basis (GEC, Sustainability, etc.).
    • Responsible for ensuring proper client focus and quality procedures are in place, ensuring that goal setting process is followed by operation and participating in the Go/No Go process, and providing relevant inputs to the decision-making process.
    • Applies the corporate and Divisional strategy to operation, and executes that strategy, formal PtW to DtR hand-off between Growth & Operations to document baseline scope, price, execution basis, risks & contingency.
    • Improved compliance with, and effectiveness of, project reviews, close review of scope, and change control.
    • Active management of project cash flow, including a clear understanding of baseline; visibility of DRO performance, unbilled receivables (WIP), and AR actively follow up where areas of MEPC+ are not performing and hold areas responsible for actions to restore performance.
    • Work closely with peers in Finance, Sales & Operations to support a systematic and collaborative approach to MEPC+ and actively create an environment for adoption of service best practices including standardization, automation, and digital tools.
    • Ensure service change is operationalized across the Business Areas and leadership understands and acts to their role in Service, advocate strong change management culture and commercial mindset apply benchmarking, and help develop consistent delivery work processes.

    Required Qualifications:

    • 20+ years of experience leading and growing a business area in the AEC Industry
    • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Construction, Business Management, or related field.
    • Experience leading projects and business performance at a professional services firm or large construction firm.

    Key Skills and Attributes:

    • Strong Commercial mindset and business acumen, develops/implements project delivery solutions and represents the company to internal and external clients and markets.
    • Excellent management skills, strategic development, and critical thinking skills and develops and makes complex presentations.
    • Recruits, motivates and builds staff into a cohesive team to achieve Division/Regional goals and objectives.
    • Implements strategic plans and direction for the Region/Division.
    • Establishes goals and objectives for the team or business unit consistent with the strategic direction, serves as a role model, and motivates company staff and managers while using strong Mentoring and Leadership skills to facilitate Team Development

    Preferred Qualifications:

    • 25+ years of experience leading and growing a business area in the AEC Industry
    • Master's Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction, Business Management, or related field
    • Professional Engineering License or CMAA Certification and/or PMP certification.
    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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

    We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

    Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions.

    These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP, 401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.

    We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $180,000 - $200,000.
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