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Planning Engineer – Water Optimisation Team
Location: Powered by Arcadis
About the Role
The Arcadis Water Optimisation team supports AMP8 Water projects across clients’ portfolios, delivering solutions for clean and wastewater schemes in infrastructure and non-infrastructure sectors. This strategic role focuses on developing and implementing planning governance, processes, and systems; aligning programme schedules; and driving continuous improvement in delivery performance.
As part of Arcadis’ Programme & Project Management team, we are seeking a Planning Engineer to join our team and provide expert** planning support, ensuring our complex resilience infrastructure programmes are delivered efficiently and effectively.
Role Responsibilities
- Optimise change management frameworks, refining processes and templates to embed best practice and standardise delivery across tender, project, and portfolio levels.
- Design, implement, and embed new planning processes, procedures, and tools, ensuring robust governance, data integrity, and configuration control in planning systems.
- Align integrated baseline programmes, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and schedule hierarchies with scope, milestones, regulatory requirements, and client expectations.
- Oversee schedule health checks, earned value analysis (EVA), and variance management, driving recovery actions and contingency plans as needed.
- Produce and present performance reports on schedule adherence, earned value, resource utilisation, and outturn cost forecasts to support senior leadership decision-making.
- Maintain portfolio-level resource forecasts and capacity plans to assist in resourcing strategy and recruitment priorities.
- Maintain robust planning governance, ensuring compliance with standards and auditable baselines.
- Facilitate integrated planning and risk workshops, identifying programme risks and mitigation strategies, and escalating critical issues to leadership.
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Key Requirements
Essential
- 3+ years’ experience in project planning and scheduling, ideally within the water sector, though complex infrastructure experience is acceptable.
- Qualifications in:
- Degree/HNC/HND in Engineering, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of UK infrastructure delivery contexts, including governance, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements.
- Proficiency in planning software, such as Safran, Primavera P6, or MS Project.
- Outstanding organisational, commercial, and communication skills.
- Prior experience in project controls, cost engineering, and financial management.
- Familiarity with different contracting environments and commercial models.
Desired
- Experience in large programme delivery within regulated sectors.
- Expertise in earned value management (EVA) and financial forecasting methods.
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Why Join Arcadis?
Arcadis is driven by a shared purpose: solving the world’s most complex challenges and ensuring high quality of life for communities. We empower every individual to make an impact—no role is small—because your contributions, no matter how niche, drive meaningful results.
As a global leader in environmental, sustainability, and infrastructure consultancy, you’ll work on ambitious projects worldwide, knowing your efforts are making a lasting positive difference. Here’s how you’ll benefit:
- Purposeful Work: Work on projects that truly matter—environmental solutions, resilient infrastructure, and global sustainability.
- Career Growth: A skills-based approach tailored to your uniqueness—turn your strengths into a fulfilling career journey.
- Progress Together: Colleagues, clients, and peers thrive because you all care. Your contributions shape collaborative success.
Our Commitment
We cultivate an inclusive environment where every voice matters. Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) are central to our culture, guiding our work across six key areas: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+, and Race. This diversity fuels innovation and positions us as a leading employer of choice.
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