Urban Water Professional

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 enjoy using your experience in urban water to provide substantive direction to complex urban projects, ranging from climate-adaptive redesigns, water visions, and water management plans to sewer replacement in inner-city areas. You are not just a link in a long chain, but a substantive point of contact for both colleagues and clients.

Within our team, we work roughly from three basic roles. In practice, colleagues often fulfill a combination of these. We therefore do not see these roles as job titles, but as ways in which we work together on projects:

You enjoy maintaining client contact and serve as a primary point of contact for clients.
You listen to their questions and needs, provide an initial substantive response, and involve the project team to determine a good approach together.

During execution, you ensure overview and structure:

• who does what,
• when,
• and with which quality level.

If a specialist doubts the right question or approach? Then you first look at the substance together before you involve the client in what you believe is truly necessary.

Together with the project leader, you look at the client's question—and quickly discover that there is more beneath the surface.

You want to understand the system and dive into the substance. The standard approach does not work this time: the situation is more complex. Last week you read about an innovative method you want to try, but how do you apply that within the existing model?

You spar with another specialist, coordinate with juniors and seniors, and divide the work into manageable steps. And as soon as the first calculation results are in, the best part begins: the puzzling.

You review the results of the specialist and recognize the line toward the answer to the client's question. At the same time, you also see interfaces that have not yet been included.

You ask additional questions:

• What is the situation with groundwater levels?
• What role does water quality play?
• How does this relate to climate adaptation and future-proofing?
• And what does a planned redesign of the neighborhood mean?

You bring stakeholders, interests, and scenarios into view and help both the client and the team to determine which options need to be further developed before choices are finalized in a design.

If you start with us tomorrow, what will you concretely be working on?

In this role:

• You advise municipalities and other clients on urban water, sewerage, and climate adaptation;
• You work on integrated urban challenges, from the planning phase to design;
• You translate analyses and models into practically applicable measures;
• You are a substantive sparring partner for colleagues and clients;
• You influence design and policy choices;
• Depending on your experience, you take a leading role in projects or you mentor colleagues.

Depending on your experience, interests, and ambitions, we will look together at:

• which role(s) suit you best,
• which projects match your ambitions,
• and how you want to further develop yourself as a professional.

We are not looking for a fixed profile, but professionally mature professionals who think in systems, are curious, and enjoy working together on good solutions for urban water.

This position is a good fit for you if you:

• You know what urban water entails, and what is involved in drainage, sewerage, or climate adaptation;
• You get energy from the combination of technology, urban context, and interaction with colleagues and clients;
• You have worked with hydraulic models more often or enjoy investigating how a water system works together with a specialist;
• You seek more substantive depth and variety in projects;
• You like to set the substantive direction in projects yourself and substantiate your advice.
• You like working on multiple projects simultaneously and can organize this well.

For whom this function is less suitable

We also like to be clear about this:

• If you want to sit next to the same colleagues in the office every day. We work flexibly from multiple offices, at the client's location, or from home.
• In case of limited command of the Dutch language. This is because in every role you have client contact and you provide explanations regarding your results and advice.

then this is probably not the right place.

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).

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging:

We want you to be your best self every day. We take equality and inclusion very seriously and we hold ourselves accountable for our actions. We want to be an employer of choice and offer everyone a great workplace.

Recruitment, secondment, and HR agencies do not need to respond; acquisition following this vacancy is not appreciated.

An assessment and/or pre-employment screening may be part of the application procedure.