Project Controls Specialist

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: Supports PMs and OEA teams with project control activities encompassing the elements of schedule, risk, budget, and resource management to improve project delivery and to  standardize OEA ways of working.

Collaboration

• Collaborate across OEA lanes in maintaining an effective Project Controls Framework, including cost, schedule, and risk monitoring.


• Work collaboratively with PMs (including cross-functional PMs where necessary) to support and challenge project control activities.


• Engage with vendors in managing procure-to-pay (P2P) activities.


• Work closely with Finance and GSSC on OEA budget, cost, and reporting.

Project Controls activities

• Supports ensuring project control activities are in place and operating across OEA projects which includes scheduling, resourcing, and risk management activities.


• Helps in monitoring project progress to increase predictability on OEA activities, pro-active project risk management, and improve cost efficiency.


• Monitors costs with the end goal of keeping projects within agreed budgets.


• Engages with PMs in keeping project documentations and processes are standardized across lanes. These include, amongst others, setting up and maintaining project folders, Smartsheet schedules, reports, and dashboards.


• Supports in ensuring P2P in OEA aligns with agreed processes including contracting, PR/PO, invoicing, and payments.


• Role models an organized way of working within OEA.

Project Oversight, Management & Controls

• Initiate and participate in calls/discussions with PMs and other stakeholders and ensure project controls are at the top of their agenda.


• Challenge the current ways of working suggesting a clear path to improvement.


• Implement Smartsheet as the leading tooling for project control activities.


• Guide PMs in applying OEA project methodology and project controls within their project management activities


• Initiate improvements/efficiencies in the project control domain.

Key Shared accountabilities

• Partnership with PMs, lanes, and cross-functional teams to achieve OEA budget tracking, reporting, and management.


• Project planning and delivery with PMs.


• Co-create Project Controls Framework, internal processes, and SOPs within OEA with O&Q Director.


• Standardize OEA ways of working with Orchestration team

Qualifications & Experience:

• ​Minimum of 3 years experience project controls activities on (multidisciplinary) project teams, preferably within a global tech environment.


• ​Has the ability to collaborate (and influence) with different stakeholders, develop and manage processes, mitigate risks, and control quality to achieve positive outcomes.


• Has the ability to effectively manage (indirectly) resources across teams.

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.