Associate Project Manager (Universities)

As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Associate Project Manager to join our team, focusing on Higher Education clients across the UK, with a particular emphasis on construction, capital projects, refurbishment, fit-out, infrastructure, and estate development programmes.

This role is ideal for a candidate with a strong background in construction project management who is confident delivering projects from early planning and procurement through to site delivery, handover, and close out. Experience working in complex stakeholder environments, ideally within the Higher Education sector, is essential.

The role involves managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously, with a focus on service delivery, client relationship management, account leadership, and bid support. The successful candidate will be confident in direct client engagement, commercially aware, and capable of managing time, cost, quality, and risk to meet deadlines and maintain profitability.

Role Accountabilities

• Lead construction and capital projects for Higher Education clients from planning through to handover


• Manage budgets, programme, risk, governance, and contract compliance


• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams, consultants, and contractors


• Build strong client relationships and support account growth


• Contribute to bid writing, tenders, and proposal development


• Drive high-quality, efficient, and commercially successful delivery

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven Project Manager experience in construction or the built environment


• Experience delivering capital projects, refurbishment, fit-out, or infrastructure schemes


• Higher Education project experience strongly preferred


• Strong client management, commercial, and stakeholder engagement skills


• Experience managing complex projects in live environments


• Bid writing or account management experience desirable


• Laboratory or specialist technical building experience advantageous

Candidates must demonstrate professional project management experience and have ideally supported higher education sector clients.

Ready to Apply?

If you have the construction project management experience and Higher Education sector background we’re looking for, we’d like to hear from you. Apply now to be part of a team delivering impactful projects across the UK. 

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 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.

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