Principal Construction Manager

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:

Arcadis is seeking an experienced Principal Construction Manager to join our Resilience Water team in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This role will support a progressive design-build flood control project that includes two large stormwater pump stations, tide gates, and additional flood protection components across four separate project locations.

The individual in this role will serve as the primary design services during construction liaison between the contractor, subcontractors, design team, and project leadership. Reporting to the Project Manager, this position will play a key role in coordinating technical reviews, resolving construction-related design questions, supporting field activities, and helping ensure the project is delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with client expectations.

Role accountabilities:

The Principal Construction Manager will support the successful delivery of a major flood control project from design through active construction. This includes coordinating with contractors, subcontractors, engineers, project leadership, and client representatives to help resolve design and construction issues in a timely and practical way.

Other responsibilities include:

• Serve as the main point of contact between the design team, contractor, subcontractors, and project manager during construction.
• Support construction-phase services including RFIs, submittals, design clarifications, field changes, and technical issue resolution.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to review construction activities for alignment with design intent and contract documents.
• Participate in project coordination meetings, progress discussions, site visits, and construction-related planning activities.
• Help maintain clear project documentation, communication records, and timely follow-up on open technical and construction items.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• 10 or more years of relevant design, construction, or construction management experience on water, stormwater, flood control, pump station, or related infrastructure projects.

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Strong understanding of civil, stormwater, flood control, pump station, or water infrastructure design and construction.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively with contractors, subcontractors, engineers, clients, and project leadership.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, resolve technical issues, document decisions, and support successful project delivery in an active construction environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with progressive design-build or alternative delivery projects, and prior experience with large pump stations, tide gates, coastal resilience, or flood protection infrastructure.
• Experience supporting construction-phase services, contractor coordination, RFIs, submittals, change management, and field-based coordination.

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 20 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $120,000 - $150,000. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.