Program Manager | Owner's Rep - Global Data Centers

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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:

Project Manager, Global Programs – Remote (United States)

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support the delivery of large-scale capital programs across multiple concurrent projects. The successful candidate will act as an extension of the client's project team, providing leadership, coordination, governance, and oversight throughout the program lifecycle, from initiation and planning through design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout.

The Project Manager will be responsible for establishing strong stakeholder relationships, managing program governance processes, maintaining schedule and budget oversight, coordinating procurement activities, facilitating communication across partner teams, and driving successful project outcomes. This role requires a highly organized professional who can operate in a fast-paced environment, balance competing priorities, and deliver consistent results across multiple programs simultaneously.

The position will support cross-functional teams including design, engineering, construction, procurement, project controls, commissioning, and operations stakeholders. The Project Manager will provide program-level reporting, risk management, issue resolution, schedule monitoring, and change management while helping ensure alignment with project objectives, quality standards, budget requirements, and delivery milestones.

This role requires a proactive mindset, strong communication skills, and the ability to facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders. The Project Manager will identify risks, recommend mitigation strategies, support decision-making processes, coordinate project reviews and governance gates, and provide leadership in driving program execution.

The ideal candidate possesses a strong background in construction, infrastructure, mission-critical facilities, industrial, technology, or large capital project environments and demonstrates the ability to manage complex programs involving multiple stakeholders, vendors, consultants, and contractors. Travel may be required to support key project milestones, stakeholder meetings, and program execution activities.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated project management professional to contribute to high-profile programs while working within a collaborative and globally connected delivery environment.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead and coordinate multiple programs simultaneously, ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business objectives.
• Establish and maintain program governance, documentation, reporting, communication plans, and stakeholder engagement processes.
• Develop, monitor, and track program schedules, critical milestones, risks, dependencies, and overall project performance.
• Facilitate procurement activities, vendor engagement, proposal evaluations, and contractor onboarding processes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including design, engineering, construction, commissioning, and operational stakeholders.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, and change requests while implementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Maintain program-level budget oversight and support financial tracking, forecasting, and reporting activities.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, decision support materials, status reports, and management updates.
• Support construction execution through schedule reviews, progress monitoring, issue resolution, stakeholder coordination, and project controls oversight.
• Lead project closeout activities, including punch list tracking, commissioning coordination, lessons learned, and financial closeout reporting.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Project Management, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 7+ years of project or program management experience supporting complex capital projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing projects through planning, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, and closeout phases.
• Experience overseeing project schedules, budgets, reporting, risk management, and stakeholder communications.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of project controls, procurement processes, contract administration, and governance frameworks.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Proficiency with project management and reporting tools including Microsoft Office Suite and common scheduling platforms.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Exceptional organizational and coordination skills.
• Analytical thinker with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Proactive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.
• Highly collaborative and adaptable in dynamic environments.
• Strong attention to detail while maintaining strategic program focus.
• Comfortable interacting with executive-level stakeholders and project teams alike.
• Effective communicator capable of translating complex issues into actionable information.
• Ability to travel as required to support project delivery.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP, PgMP, PMI-SP, CCM, PE, or equivalent professional certification.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure, mission-critical, industrial, technology, manufacturing, or data center programs.
• Experience working within global or multi-region program delivery environments.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6, project controls platforms, and enterprise reporting systems.
• Understanding of commissioning, construction quality processes, and operational handover activities.
• Experience managing consultant, contractor, and vendor relationships on complex capital programs.
• Demonstrated success delivering programs involving significant stakeholder coordination and governance requirements.

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. 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 employer. 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 nine paid holidays and 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $135,000- $150,000k. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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