Assistant Engineer / Engineer

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At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:

Are you passionate about Dams and Reservoirs? Would you like to play a role in shaping a UK wide team motivated by delivering interesting projects and solving complex challenges for our clients?

The Dams and Reservoir (D&R) team at Arcadis is looking for Assistant Engineers and Engineers to help us grow and improve our market share. At Arcadis we are energised by a new three-year strategy and opportunities to deliver globally. We have created a strong pipeline of work through our broad base of clients and this role will be instrumental in seeing this strategy become a reality for our people and clients.

Working in our Resilience Business Line, you will report to one of our D&R Associate Directors delivering our technical work.

As an Assistant Engineer or Engineer you will be motivated by the prospect of developing your technical capability while keeping up to speed with wider advancements within the discipline and industry best practice.

Role accountabilities:

Duties will include amongst other things:

• Assist with the effective technical response on a range of dams and reservoir engineering design and modelling projects.
• Work with the team to deliver projects which enhance customer experience and on to exceed expectations of time, quality and budgetary targets, supported by our wider technical team, PMs and commercial managers.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry developments and publications
• Potential for site supervision of reservoir related work
  
  

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience of working within the water environment
• Interest in developing and growing your Dams and Reservoir Technical capability
• Master’s degree in Engineering or similar related subject
• Demonstrable progress through a professional training scheme (ICE/CIWEM or similar) with a clear plan and ambition for attainment of CEng status.
  
  

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth’s resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.

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.

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