Project Manager - Water Resources

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:

Arcadis is seeking a Project Manager (Municipal Water/ Wastewater) to join our Resilience Water Business Area in the Akron, OH office.  This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of minimum 3 days per week physically in the Arcadis Akron Office.   

The Project Manager will collaborate with our local Water Team to manage projects, with client interaction and project team coordination. The majority of the work will be in Ohio. This Project Manager will be responsible for implementing successful project/program execution strategies with the project team, as well as maintaining strong client relations.   

Role accountabilities:

The position requires general consulting and process mechanical/ water market understanding. Additionally, experience focused on building project team relationships and continuity, developing client relationships and trust, and delivering detailed design solutions within established budgets and schedules is a plus. The successful candidate shall demonstrate past success as an active project team member and/or project manager with the ability to lead project staff and accomplish the following:

• Responsible for implementation and management of project execution in collaboration with our account leaders and local technical teams.  Continual refinement of project execution strategies based on program successes and challenges encountered.


• Contribute to innovative approaches and lead development of value propositions to accelerate growth of our water/wastewater offering and look at continuous process improvements to enhance Arcadis’ offerings to the market and to further meet the needs of our clients and the future challenges that they experience. 


• Responsible for preparation of project scope of services, work plans, project budgets and schedules and delegation of work tasks.


• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with clients and project teams. 


• Past experience in utilizing digital tools and data analysis to drive prioritization and decision making.


• Demonstrated ability to provide technical mentoring to technical staff as they support project execution activities. 


• Passion for serving and growing professionally.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in civil, mechanical, or environmental engineering


• Professional Engineering license in Ohio, with ability to be licensed in other states


• 10+ years of experience in engineering/ detailed design project delivery


• Prior experience in Consulting Engineering

Key Skills and Attributes

• Self-motivated and flexible with the ability and desire to work on multiple, unique assignments simultaneously with strong organizational, digital analytical and problem-solving skills.


• Proven interpersonal and relationship skills with demonstrated success recruiting, mentoring, and motivating junior staff in technical career tracks


• Personnel leadership ambition


• Dependable and eager to take ownership of tasks

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.

Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part time positions. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision, EAP,  401K, STD, LTD, AD&D, life insurance, paid parental leave, reward & recognition program and optional benefits including wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement.  We offer nine paid holidays and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $94,944 - $161,405. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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