Senior Project/Program Manager (Environmental/Solid Waste)

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 a Senior Project Manager to join our Resilience team in either Boca Raton or Plantation, Florida.

In this role, you will lead the delivery of large-scale solid waste, recycling, landfill, and municipal infrastructure programs throughout South Florida. The ideal candidate will be a strong project and program manager with experience managing complex projects, coordinating diverse stakeholder groups, overseeing project controls, and ensuring successful execution of schedules, budgets, resources, and deliverables.

While this position is focused on program leadership and project delivery rather than technical design, background, knowledge and technical understanding of solid waste infrastructure and practices is required. You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients while managing multidisciplinary teams, overseeing multiple concurrent projects, driving accountability, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in alignment with client objectives.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you will oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale solid waste, recycling, landfill, and municipal infrastructure programs throughout South Florida. You will be responsible for managing project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, project controls, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring successful delivery across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams. You will serve as a trusted advisor to clients, providing program leadership and maintaining accountability across project teams, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Leading large-scale solid waste, recycling, landfill, environmental, and municipal infrastructure projects and programs from initiation through completion.
• Managing project schedules, budgets, forecasts, resources, deliverables, and project controls to ensure successful execution and delivery.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and stakeholders across multiple projects and locations.
• Establishing project governance processes and providing regular reporting on schedule, budget, risk, and overall program performance.
• Identifying and proactively mitigating project risks, issues, and potential schedule impacts while implementing corrective actions when needed.
• Serving as the primary point of contact for clients while facilitating communication, managing expectations, and ensuring alignment among project stakeholders.
• Supporting business development activities, client relationship management, strategic pursuits, staff development, and program growth opportunities throughout South Florida.

Some travel may be required for client meetings, project site visits, business development activities, and other project-related needs.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Environmental Sciences, Project Management, Public Administration, Business, or a related field.
• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible project and program management experience overseeing large, complex infrastructure, solid waste, environmental, or municipal projects.

Key Skills & Attributes

The ideal candidate is an experienced project and program management professional with a strong background in solid waste, recycling, landfill operations, environmental infrastructure, or municipal public works programs. They possess exceptional organizational and leadership skills and have a proven ability to manage large, complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

The successful candidate will have expertise in project planning, scheduling, budgeting, forecasting, project controls, resource coordination, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and executive-level reporting. Strong communication, leadership, and client management skills are essential, along with the ability to keep teams aligned, accountable, and focused on successful project outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

The preferred candidate will have demonstrated experience managing project schedules, budgets, resources, deliverables, stakeholders, project controls, and risk management activities across large and complex programs. They will have a proven track record of leading multidisciplinary teams and successfully delivering multiple concurrent projects within established timelines and budgets.

Experience managing municipal solid waste, waste-to-energy, recycling, landfill, transfer station, materials management, resource recovery, environmental compliance, or public works programs is highly preferred. Demonstrated success delivering large capital improvement programs, multi-year infrastructure initiatives, or enterprise-level municipal programs is strongly desired.

Existing relationships with municipal, county, environmental, public works, or solid waste authority clients throughout South Florida are a plus. A Master's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Public Administration, Project Management, or a related field is preferred. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or a Professional Engineer (PE) license are considered highly desirable.

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 $140,000 - $198,000/year. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.