Senior Asset Management Consultant

Senior Asset Management Consultant

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. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We are seeking a Senior Asset Management Consultant to join our Resilience Water Team and work on a variety of engagements with our Asset Management practice in the West region (focused on California, Texas, Arizona).

The Senior Asset Management Consultant will have experience with technical delivery of asset management projects for the water and wastewater utilities, or federal agencies managing flood protection assets. Candidates should have a comprehensive understanding of industry-accepted asset management tools and techniques including asset management frameworks, development of asset management plans including asset inventory, condition and consequence of failure assessments, life-cycle cost analysis, O&M programs, and capital investment planning.

We are interested in candidates in Texas, with Austin being the preferred location. The chosen candidate can expect to work independently as well as on teams staffed with management consultants, IT professionals, engineers, and scientists from various backgrounds, locations, specialties, and experience levels. Some tasks, such as addressing requests for assistance, require a combination of technical and non-technical skills. In this position you will need a strong intellect, the ability to articulate complex ideas persuasively and a talent for establishing and solidifying relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

Role accountabilities include:

• Leading tasks related to the development and implementation of asset management plans and programs requiring strong communication and writing skills to effectively convey technical concepts to clients.
• Developing both strategic and tactical asset management plans, establishing service levels and performance measures, and initiating business process improvements.
• Collaborating with others to analyze utilities' operational business processes and decision support systems, consulting on asset registers, condition assessments, and repair and renewal needs.
• Coordinating the analysis of large utility GIS, maintenance, and condition assessment databases to support various planning programs, as well as evaluating asset management activities such as inventories, technology support, and cost projections.
• Providing recommendations for improving operations and maintenance practices and supporting technologies, with a focus on minimizing asset life cycle costs and enhancing technology integration.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of consulting experience with an environmental engineering or management consulting firm or equivalent experience with a municipal utility.
• B.S. in Engineering, Engineering Management, or Engineering Technology.
• Ability to lead technical tasks in asset management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exceptional communication skills with experience of managing and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a team with strong interpersonal and relationship building skills, excellent at building both internal and client relationships.
• Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Certificate or Diploma and Professional Engineer license.

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 are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. 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 $101,376 - $168,960. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.