Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With over 34,000 people across more than 30 countries, we are dedicated to improving quality of life by solving complex challenges together. The Arcadis Water Optimisation team delivers AMP8 Water projects across clean and wastewater schemes within infrastructure and non-infrastructure portfolios. This strategic role will develop and implement robust planning governance, processes, and systems; integrate programme schedules; and drive continuous improvement in delivery performance.

As a Senior Planning Engineer, you will lead and mature our planning capability while providing hands-on planning leadership for major delivery across the Water sector. You will offer expert advice on earned value management, resource requirements, programme risks, performance reporting, and outturn cost forecasting. Collaboration with portfolio leads, discipline leads, and business stakeholders will be key to optimising resource forecasting, aligning plans with delivery capabilities, and strengthening financial and schedule control.

You will also support tendering activities by delivering comprehensive programme inputs, resourcing strategies, and cost forecast data to improve bid accuracy and deliverability. Your leadership will be critical in enhancing predictability and enabling the successful delivery of complex resilience infrastructure programmes.

Experience
- Significant experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally within the water sector or complex infrastructure projects.
- Proven ability to lead and develop teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong understanding of UK infrastructure delivery contexts, including governance, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements across the environment sector and local authorities.
- Proficient in planning software such as Safran, Primavera P6, and MS Project.
- Experience with project controls, cost engineering, and financial operations.
- Familiarity with different contracting environments and commercial models.

About you
Organised, commercially aware, and an excellent communicator. You are motivated to drive continuous improvement and digital adoption in planning and reporting to enhance predictability, efficiency, and decision support across the business. You thrive in collaborative environments and are committed to delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions.

Qualifications
Degree, HNC, or HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related subject.