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About the Role

Arcadis is seeking flexible, dynamic individuals eligible to obtain and maintain Security Clearance (SC) to support confidential clients and highly challenging programmes within the Nuclear sector. This role requires strong analytical capability and a structured, governance-led approach to project and programme controls, with planning acting as a key integrator across cost, risk, change, and delivery functions.

Responsibilities

Lead the development, integration, maintenance, and assurance of project and programme schedules.
Establish and maintain effective planning standards, processes, and schedule management controls.
Own schedule baseline management, progress update routines, change impact assessment, and schedule traceability.
Drive integration between planning, cost, risk, change, scope, and reporting functions.
Provide schedule assurance and constructive challenge across various programmes.
Lead planning input to governance forums, integrated baseline reviews, and readiness reviews.
Analyse schedule performance, critical path, trends, and variances to provide advice on delivery confidence and mitigations.
Lead or coordinate planning inputs to reporting packs, dashboards, and senior stakeholder briefings.
Oversee contract-driven planning activities, including review of supplier and contractor programme submissions.
Support delivery strategy, programme phasing, option development, and investment decision making through schedule analysis.
Facilitate planning workshops with multidisciplinary stakeholders.
Provide line management, coaching, and development support to planners.
Champion continuous improvement in planning processes, tools, and reporting outputs.
The scope of accountability will be aligned to experience and programme needs, ranging from schedule assurance through to integrated controls leadership.

Requirements

Must meet UK nationality and security requirements.
Eligible to obtain and maintain up to Security Clearance (SC).
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in planning, project controls, engineering, construction, programme management, or a related discipline.
Hold, or be working towards, a relevant professional qualification or chartered status, such as APM, ACostE, PMI, CIOB, RICS, or equivalent.
Demonstrable experience leading the development, integration, management, and assurance of project or programme schedules within complex delivery environments.
Strong working knowledge of planning tools such as Primavera P6, Asta Powerproject, or Microsoft Project.
Experience applying planning governance, baseline management, change control, progress measurement, schedule quality analysis, and reporting processes.
Experience reviewing supplier, contractor, or delivery partner programmes within structured contract environments, including NEC or similar forms of contract.
Strong understanding of integrated project controls, including the relationship between schedule, cost, risk, change, scope, and reporting.
Proven ability to engage confidently with multidisciplinary stakeholders, facilitate planning workshops, explain schedule performance, and support evidence-based decision-making.
Experience line managing, coaching, mentoring, or supporting the development of planners or wider planning capability across teams.
Experience in nuclear, defence, energy, infrastructure, or other highly regulated sectors.
Familiarity with Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), programme lifecycle governance, and programme-level planning approaches.
Experience using schedule risk analysis, critical path analysis, earned value, or other performance measurement techniques.
Knowledge of reporting, business intelligence, document control, or data management tools used to support integrated planning and project controls.
Experience supporting governance, audit, independent assurance, or readiness review processes.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication capability.

Skills

Planning
Project controls
Programme controls
Schedule development
Schedule integration
Schedule maintenance
Schedule assurance
Cost management
Risk management
Change management
Delivery management
Governance
Reporting
Primavera P6
Asta Powerproject
Microsoft Project
Baseline management
Progress measurement
Schedule quality analysis
Contract management
Integrated project controls
Stakeholder engagement
Workshop facilitation
Line management
Coaching
Mentoring
Continuous improvement
Schedule risk analysis
Critical path analysis
Earned value analysis
Performance measurement
Business intelligence
Document control
Data management
Audit support
Problem-solving
Communication

Location

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Lead
Senior

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Professional qualification or chartered status (APM, ACostE, PMI, CIOB, RICS, or equivalent)

About the Company

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.
We work to protect our natural environment, water resources, and energy systems while helping to power our world for future generations.
We believe everyone's contribution matters.
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.

Equal Opportunity

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.