Lead Engineer M&E in Amsterdam

Arcadis is the global partner at the forefront of the most impactful projects of our time. We help our clients make sustainable choices through the combination of digital innovation, expertise, and future-oriented skills in areas such as environment, energy, water, buildings, transport, and infrastructure. We take that extra step to offer our clients tailored solutions for design, engineering, and consultancy. By utilizing data-driven insights, we shape the natural and built environment together.

With more than 34,000 people, we bundle global expertise and tackle challenges such as climate, affordable energy, and livable cities together. We improve quality of life through our presence in more than thirty countries.

You are responsible for the organization and execution of projects. You align expectations with clients, prepare quotes, and organize the project team. With your technical background and experience, you translate the client's request into an integral and future-proof design and also provide technical leadership to the team.

You monitor progress, quality, and planning and, together with the team, ensure satisfied clients. You provide direction to one or more multidisciplinary teams of engineers and technicians and coordinate intensively with other disciplines and stakeholders.
In addition to project work, you are involved in tenders. In these, you ensure the integration of the installation design within the whole and contribute to the vision on approach, organization, and estimation.
Based on your knowledge and experience, you contribute to the development and positioning of the field within and outside Arcadis. Our clients are both public authorities and contractors.

MEP
The MEP business unit consists of approximately 55 people. The group primarily deals with dry and wet infrastructure installations, (tunnel) technical installations, operation and control, stations, and (port) terminal systems. Additionally, there is broad integrated expertise within the advisory group in the areas of project management, risk management, SE, RAMSHE, and sustainability. The main clients are Rijkswaterstaat, ProRail, municipalities/provinces, terminals, and large contractors/installers. Furthermore, we contribute to international projects. Sometimes in monodisciplinary and smaller multidisciplinary projects, but also in complex integrated projects (national and international)

As Lead Engineer M&E, you are responsible for the design, coordination, and implementation of technical installations within infrastructural projects both domestically and abroad. This involves projects such as tunnels, stations, ports and terminals, locks and bridges, and loading and energy infrastructure.

You work on projects in various phases, from conceptual design through to commissioning. The projects are often multidisciplinary and range from renovation to new construction, nationally and internationally. In doing so, you collaborate with colleagues in the Netherlands, Arcadis teams abroad, and our Global Excellence Centers (GEC).
Examples of projects include:

• Fraser River Tunnel (Vancouver, Canada)
• Zuidasdok Amsterdam (public transport terminal and tunnel)
• Renovation of tunnels in Amsterdam
• Charging facilities for ships and buses
• Substations for train, tram, and metro
• Energy transition projects

We are looking for a driven professional with a background in installation or energy technology
who works process-oriented and has a customer-oriented attitude. You have good communication skills, think from the perspective of stakeholder interests, and thereby build a relationship of trust. You work accurately, are practical, and result-oriented.

Furthermore, you have:

• a completed HBO or WO degree, preferably in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or similar;
• at least five years of work experience in infrastructure projects;
• experience with complex projects where you maintain an overview of planning and quality;
• a social attitude and enjoy being entrepreneurial and working with clients alongside the technical content;
• a practical attitude, are a team player, and work proactively;
• a good command of the Dutch and English languages.

We achieve our goals by enabling everyone to get the best out of themselves. We believe that everyone's contribution matters. That is why we pioneer with an approach based on your skills and build a 'Skills Powered Organisation'. With your unique experience and expertise, you will map out your own career path. Together we maximize impact! Your work makes the difference. Whatever role you play, you help provide sustainable solutions for a healthier planet. Leave your mark on your career, your colleagues, clients, your life, and the world around you. On our website, you can read the blogs of Arcadians to find out how we do this.

Arcadis offers you a position with a lot of freedom to independently shape your work in an ambitious and driven team. In addition to a great work culture, we have also included excellent employment conditions, including:

• 30 days of leave with full-time employment, with the possibility to buy or sell extra days.
• Employees may use the NS business card for private use free of charge.
• Additional arrangements regarding partner parental leave and paid parental leave.
• Possibility for hybrid working, facilitated by an appropriate home office allowance and a professionally equipped workspace at home.
• Good pension scheme with the Dutch Pension Fund (HNPF), where Arcadis pays the largest part of the premium.
• Opportunities to follow courses and training, access to our extensive Arcadis Learning Experience Platform (LXP).

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