Principal Architect

York, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

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:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Architect looking to take the next step in their career to join our multi-disciplinary Design Practice.

You’ll be responsible for the delivery of projects in our Defence sector. Your project workload will be varied and in addition to traditional design, we undertake technical advisory services too.

Role accountabilities:

• Providing best-in-class delivery of projects in the Defence sector.
• Providing professional leadership at a senior level, establishing and consolidating relationships with project teams and clients alike.
• Taking ownership for the delivery of a portfolio of projects, ensuring projects are delivered on time, to budget and meeting/exceeding client expectations.
• Ensuring QA process compliance.
• Leading continuous improvement in "Safe by Design" and in health, safety, and welfare.
• Occasional support to the pursuit to win team, inputting bids and attending interviews.
• There will be some travel throughout the UK occasionally.
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable and come to us with:

• ARB Registered & RIBA chartership
• Experienced in delivering architectural projects across all RIBA stages
• Experienced in designing Defence sector projects
• Experience working as part of a multi-disciplinary design team
• Experience and knowledge of sustainable development best practice would be beneficial.
• A sound commercial background, including familiarity with contractual conditions and procedures, and ability to take commercial responsibility for a project.
• Strong consulting skills including design management and client relationship management
  
  

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.