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:
We are looking for Senior Project Managers / Associate Project Managers with strong NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) experience to act as NEC4 Accredited Project Managers on National Highways major infrastructure schemes.
The role holder will operate at Competent to Specialist level, as defined by the NEC Competency Framework (Version 1, 2022), and will be responsible for the full administration of NEC4 ECC contracts, including all decisions, acceptances, assessments, notices, and certification required under the contract and National Highways amendments.
The role requires the ability to perform all NEC4 Project Manager functions without supervision, while supervising and mentoring less experienced staff, and acting impartially to achieve project objectives on high-value, strategically significant schemes (£200m+)
Role accountabilities:
- Act as the named NEC4 ECC Project Manager, administering contracts in full compliance with NEC4 conditions and National Highways amendments.
- Undertake all NEC4 PM duties independently, including Early Warnings, Risk Reduction Meetings, Compensation Events, programme acceptance and time management.
- Manage payment assessments, certification, final account processes, and issue contractual notices, acceptances, and decisions.
- Provide impartial, defensible contractual and commercial advice to senior stakeholders in line with NEC principles.
- Deliver major infrastructure projects (£200m+) to agreed scope, budget, programme, governance and compliance requirements.
- Apply technical engineering/surveying knowledge to assess designs, ensure technical compliance, and support NEC decision‑making.
- Supervise, mentor and develop Assistant PMs, providing NEC technical assurance and contributing to improvement of NEC best practice.
- Build strong relationships with National Highways, contractors and designers; represent Arcadis professionally and maintain 3‑day-per-week site presence.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Chartered Engineer or Chartered Surveyor (CEng, MRICS, FRICS or equivalent).
- Current NEC4 Project Manager Accreditation.
- Demonstrated delivery at Competent–Specialist level under the NEC Competency Framework.
- Sustained experience undertaking the NEC4 ECC Project Manager role.
- Proven experience as the named Project Manager on National Highways contracts.
- Experience managing major infrastructure schemes valued at £200m+.
- Strong commercial acumen and experience developing less‑experienced staff; ability to meet minimum 3‑day site attendance requirement.
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.
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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.
