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About the Role
Arcadis is seeking a Project Director to lead the successful delivery of complex road and highway projects across Ontario. This leadership role involves directing multidisciplinary teams, managing client outcomes, schedule, quality, budget, risk, and health and safety.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of complex roads and highways projects and programs, ensuring alignment with Arcadis Project Management procedures, quality requirements, and best practice delivery principles.
- Provide strong leadership and technical direction to multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of safety, accountability, collaboration, and high performance.
- Oversee financial, operational, and governance frameworks, including forecasting, monitoring, change management, risk management, resourcing, and performance reporting.
- Support the mobilization and management of project resources, suppliers, and sub-consultants.
- Implement strategies, tools, and controls to improve consistency, efficiency, and delivery performance.
- Promote safe outcomes across design and delivery activities.
- Build and manage strong relationships with senior internal and external stakeholders, including Ontario transportation clients, government agencies, municipalities, contractors, and delivery partners.
- Achieve project success criteria across cash flow, margin, quality, schedule, risk, and health and safety.
- Shape pursuit strategies, support sound contractual arrangements, and ensure strong commercial and contract management with minimal claims exposure.
- Strengthen client relationships, respond to feedback, identify opportunities for growth, and position Arcadis for repeat business and long-term success.
- Create an environment where people can thrive by leading with clarity and purpose, encouraging collaboration, inclusion, and knowledge sharing.
- Support the growth of team members through coaching and performance feedback, champion diversity of thought, and leverage Arcadis’ global capability.
- Model the highest professional and ethical standards, building trust and credibility with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Relevant civil engineering, transportation engineering, construction, project management or related degree.
- Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEng), Chartered status or equivalent professional accreditation.
- Experience in leadership roles on complex roads, highways, and transportation infrastructure projects or programs.
- Proven experience delivering highway planning, preliminary design, detailed design, design-build, or alternative delivery projects in Ontario or Canada.
- Strong commercial knowledge, including contract conditions, risk management and project financial controls.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver full-service, complex projects while ensuring strategic client outcomes.
- Extensive stakeholder management and client relationship experience with transportation agencies, municipalities, and delivery partners.
- Track record of leading multidisciplinary teams across multiple geographic locations.
- Demonstrable expertise working collaboratively with technical disciplines and project delivery teams.
- Strong understanding of roads and highways standards, approvals, procurement models, and project delivery environments.
Skills
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Financial Controls
- Stakeholder Management
- Client Relationship Management
- Team Leadership
- Health and Safety Management
- Commercial Management
- Contract Management
Location
- Ontario
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Leadership
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Professional Engineer of Ontario (PEng)
- Chartered status or equivalent professional accreditation
Salary/Compensations
- $131,120 - $196,680
Benefits
- Skills-based approach to career pathing
- Opportunity to work on meaningful, sustainable solutions
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 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.
- Join Arcadis. Create a 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 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.