At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Senior Program Director with large Capital Project experience to join our Places business division in Reston, VA. This is for a large Data Center Construction Build.

As a Senior Program Director, you will be responsible for leading a team (estimating, cost management, project accounting, planning/scheduling, risk management, change management) and actively managing the client and key stakeholders to ensure alignment with program objectives.

Role accountabilities:

• Manage the scope of work to the contract deliverables, delegating responsibilities across the team, monitoring team performance, and ensuring deliverables are timely met
• Plan resources for team and communicating resource needs to client
• Align budgets with funding strategy and performing term sheet updates
• Partner with General Contractors and client project manager to set up budgets and track contingency approval, allowance reconciliation, budget transfers and change orders in client tools to keep current budget and cost forecasts up to date.
• Support benchmarking efforts by preparing and submitting benchmark data and developing alternative scenarios
• Review and validate all contractor change order requests with respect to cost and schedule impacts and provide recommendations for adjustments when appropriate.
• Provide cost and schedule review support for reviewing, negotiating, and formalizing change orders, monitoring risks relative to potential changes, and maintaining change control log
• Review cost loaded schedule with general contractor, A/E and other vendors to determine and track earned value on each contract and update forecasted cost by month
• Create and update cost commitment schedules
• Support coordination, planning and review of interim and final GMPs
• Secure and reconcile accruals; support cash flow reporting and analysis activities.
• Manage review, acceptance and sign-off of a baseline schedule.
• Lead weekly meetings with the GC to review schedule performance; review all schedule changes with client staff to identify areas for improvement
• Ensure independent monthly schedule analysis is prepared forecasting the current project completion date, cost implications and risks involved
• Produce project specific and portfolio reporting; create new reports to proactively convey status and progress; ensure stakeholder alignment of data prior to communication.
• Capture lessons learned and benchmarking metrics for future reference
• Propose, initiate, and implement continuous improvement to increase efficiency and impact

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• 15 or more years' relevant experience, with at least 10 years' as a lead expert in program management
• Experience leading major programs with a diversity of deliverables across large client businesses
• Strong skills negotiating and managing relationships with external stakeholders
• Expert knowledge of P6 Software
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills
• Ability to think critically

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional license CCP or PMP

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

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.

Transform Your World

Arcadis offers benefits for full 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 adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start, and 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $133,400 - $200,100 / year.