Project Manager – Water & Infrastructure
Arup · Cardiff, Wales ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 21 Oct 2026.
Overview
In this role you will help deliver a varied portfolio of flood risk, climate resilience and infrastructure projects. You’ll work with experienced project leaders and technical specialists to manage planning, governance, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring safe, efficient delivery. The role spans multiple locations and project types, offering broad exposure to environment-focused infrastructure work. You’ll contribute to communities adapting to climate change while developing your project management career within a collaborative, values-driven firm.
Pay / Benefits
- Profit Share
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Accident insurance
- Income protection
- Flexible benefits
Responsibilities
- Support delivery of flood risk, climate resilience and infrastructure projects
- Assist in project planning, budgeting, programmes, risk management and project controls
- Engage stakeholders and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams
- Contribute to governance and commercial management tasks
- Support safe, high-quality project delivery and reporting
- Gain exposure to full project lifecycles and client/ Project delivery
- Work across diverse project types (flood alleviation, coastal resilience, river, asset management, climate adaptation)
Key requirements
- Experience in project management, engineering, environmental or consultancy
- Understanding of project planning, budgets, programmes, risk and project controls
- Strong organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good commercial awareness and understanding of change management
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience within multidisciplinary teams and managing multiple priorities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel; Microsoft Project is desirable
- Interest in flood risk, water, climate resilience or infrastructure
- Working towards or holding APM, CIWEM, ICE, PMI or equivalent membership
- Organizational skills
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Project (desirable)
- Change management
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