Senior Planning and Project Controls Manager

Arcadis; Belfast; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy firm in Belfast is seeking a Senior Planning and Project Controls Manager to join their Major Projects team. This role will focus on delivering effective project controls and planning for major infrastructure projects, enhancing client solutions in transportation and building sectors. Candidates should possess a relevant degree, experience in controls and planning, and a passion for digital transformations. The position emphasizes teamwork, professional growth, and sustainability.

Benefits

Empowerment and career growth

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience in planning and controls across infrastructure, transportation, and buildings.
• Strong understanding of project controls and risk management.
• Ability to work across the supply chain.
• Experience with all project life cycle stages.

Responsibilities

• Hold client-facing roles for major projects.
• Integrate multidisciplinary teams for solutions.
• Promote digital controls solutions.
• Support professional growth within the team.

Skills

Planning

Controls

Risk management

Digital solutions

Cost engineering

Education

Degree in Engineering

Project Management

Construction Management

Quantity Surveying

Tools

Oracle P6

Job description

Senior Planning and Project Controls Manager

Arcadis Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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. Together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact.

Role description

Arcadis is working across major capital investment programmes pan‑Ireland (multi‑million and multi‑billion £/€ schemes), across the infrastructure, transportation, and buildings sectors. We work with a variety of clients, collaborating across the supply chain to ensure our client’s programmes are delivered effectively, efficiently, and their requirements are met. Our team provides multi‑disciplinary solutions to our clients, bringing expertise from project & programme management, controls, cost & commercial, design & engineering, digital intelligence, and advisory skillsets. Providing value‑adding standardisation, insight, and control is at the heart of supporting the success of our clients and their programme delivery teams. Due to increased demand and plans for growth in Ireland supporting our major clients, we are looking for an energetic and well‑rounded planning and controls professional to join our Major Projects team. The individual will join our programme management & controls team, providing solutions for our key clients across the transportation, infrastructure and buildings sectors.

Role accountabilities

• Hold client‑facing delivery roles working directly with our key customers for major projects within the infrastructure and transportation sectors, bringing best‑practice planning, controls and risk solutions.
• Bring planning, controls and risk management expertise and learning to our major projects, integrating multidisciplinary teams to provide integrated and value‑adding controls solutions for our clients.
• Serve as an ambassador for Arcadis’ digital controls solutions, bringing in our talented teams in data science and data analytics to provide transformative and efficient digital controls solutions.
• Be an active member within Arcadis’ Global Project & Programme Controls community, supporting the growth and development of yourself, our people, and those within our clients, partners and wider industry bodies.

Qualifications & Experience

• Be a planning and controls professional who has worked in roles across Controls, Planning and Risk, across a variety of projects within the infrastructure, transportation and/or buildings sectors.
• Have experience and qualifications across project controls, planning (schedule management), risk management, digital solutions and cost engineering. A solid understanding across these areas and a passion for learning, growth and agility to flex solutions is required.
• Experience working across the supply chain, including perspectives from client‑side, consultant, contractor and designers is a strong advantage.
• Experience spanning all stages of the project/programme life cycle, from mobilisation, set‑up, delivery, handover and benefits realisation across a variety of projects.
• Hold a degree or diploma in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or related field.
• Hold qualifications aligned to Project Controls, Planning and/or Risk Management such as Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), APM’s Planning and Controls Certifications, Oracle P6 Certifications and Risk Management Certification.

Why Arcadis? 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’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.

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.

Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level

Employment type: Full‑time

Job function: Other

Industries: Professional Services