Job Description
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
This is an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated individual to join our team locally with support from one of the best-qualified municipal consulting firms in the country. As an Office Engineer/administrator, you will utilize your experience and technical knowledge of municipal infrastructure, water and wastewater facilities and general building projects to successfully execute and manage programs, under the supervision of the Construction Manager or Project Executive and help us build and grow our practice.
Position responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
- Support the firm’s day-to-day construction oversight assist Resident Engineering efforts on major municipal contracts.
- Support inspection staff and the delivery of daily inspector reports in accordance with clients’ requirements Act as liaison to design staff to respond to Contractors’ RFI’s and review of shop drawings.
- Responsible for record keeping, general correspondence, compiling and drafting of required reports and deliverables.
- Responsible for the Contractor payment process and recommends appropriate adjustments as necessary to manage the Contractor.
- Other duties as assigned.
Key Attributes
- Proven ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Demonstrated commitment to providing a safe and healthful workplace.
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
- Able to use basic functions of construction software document management applications
- Effective research, data gathering and analysis skills.
- Advanced communication skills, including the ability to liaise with peers and senior colleagues and build and maintain relationships.
- Commercial awareness and organizational understanding.
- A logical approach and ability to think through complex issues to coordinate multi-faceted aspects of projects.
- Effective time management skills.
- Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to work independently.
- Technical field skills and experience.
Required Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience with both technical and administrative duties and 3 years of office engineering/administrative experience.
- Proficiency with Primavera and/or MS Project and the MS Office Suite (particularly Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
Preferred Qualifications:
- 7 years of office engineering/administrative experience specifically for Public Works Construction.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or professional certification such as CCM / CMIT.
Continue your career journey as an Arcadian.
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 do meaningful work, and no matter where your next role in Arcadis takes you, 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.
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.
Arcadis offers benefits for full time and part 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 wellbeing benefits, adoption assistance and tuition reimbursement. We offer seven paid holidays and potentially up to two floating holidays per calendar year depending on start date, and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $80,000 – $115,000
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