Asset Strategic Advisory Consultant Lead

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:

Our vision is to be the leading asset management organization supporting our clients optimize the performance and value from their physical assets through the lifecycle of planning, creation, maintenance, operation and disposal. We combine our digital, engineering, data analytics and consultancy expertise from our global teams to deliver sustainable and predictive asset management solutions for asset intensive organizations, enabling operational, tactical and strategic asset management decision making in a continually changing environment. 

Based in Canada, we have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Asset Management Consultant to join our Infrastructure Asset Management team and help achieve this vision.  You will help deliver our asset management strategy, lead a range of asset management consultancy projects and help develop value propositions across various asset classes such as rail, drainage, highways and aviation markets. You will also provide support to the wider asset management consulting and advisory business through our global business areas, Mobility, Resilience and Places.

You will be a key member of the team that resides within the Mobility part of Arcadis, reporting to the Asset Management Services Director, and plays a vital role in growing the business and creating opportunity. This is a newly established team, pulling together our already strong capability in asset management into a unified offering to spearhead predominantly in key sectors but with an opportunity to work across all asset categories such as transit, rail, aviation, drainage, and ports. There will be opportunities for growth and career development for individuals with a growth mind set, and as the team develops, you may manage and direct more junior staff, acting as a technical subject matter expert in asset management.

Role accountabilities:

• Applying your asset management process skills, knowledge and insight to oversee the delivery of asset management projects on time, meeting both quality and budgetary targets, whilst striving to exceed client expectations


• Supporting implementation of asset management strategy, asset management plans, strategy and pursuits as well as supporting in the development of our Global capability, in particular in relation to application of international asset management standards (e.g. ISO55000 suite), strategic advisory services, and risk / performance based operations & maintenance advisory


• Client relationship and stakeholder management internally and externally, aiming to generate positive outcomes for all


• Market engagement, thought leadership and identification of future opportunities for Arcadis to add value and grow our Asset Management team and offering


• Leading and supporting cross business line tenders for asset management opportunities


• Promoting and marketing all facets of the company’s services during client interfaces and generally

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience in developing end to end asset management solutions for all sectors helping resolve strategic, tactical and / or operational challenges. Examples include but not limited to the development of Asset Management plans strategies, policies, lifecycle plans, Asset risk assessments, operations and maintenance planning, decision support tools and asset data quality assessments


• Preference to those familiar with Canadian regulations and O.Reg 588/17 – Municipal Asset Management Planning Regulations.


• Experience of working with end markets such as either in a client or in consultancy environment. Note that while transportation and utilities end market experience is preferred, experience in other sectors will be considered


• Good understanding and familiarity with industry standards and best practice such as ISO55000 principles, GFMAM methodology


• Tender management and bid experience is preferred


• Presentation and good communications skills are required


• Good understanding of risk management (e.g FMECA, Bow Tie, Fishbone)


• Experience of using or developing decision support tools to guide asset management decisions, including asset management and investment planning preferred.


• Working towards membership of Professional Institution (e.g Institute of Asset Management)

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.