Cut and Cover Structural Engineering Lead
About the role
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.
Role description: Arcadis is seeking a Cut and Cover Structural Engineering Lead to join the Fraser River Tunnel Project team. The successful candidate will be responsible for all technical aspects of the project’s cut and cover structural engineering services, including ensuring technical contract compliance and maintaining the highest standards of product quality and design approvals. Reporting to the Design Manager, this leader will provide technical guidance to the design team and will be accountable for the overall delivery of all technical outputs and design documentation within the discipline. The Cut and Cover Structural Engineering Lead will play a critical role in ensuring quality, consistency, and compliance across all stages of design and construction for the project’s cut and cover elements.
Role accountabilities: In this role, you will provide technical leadership and direction in your field of discipline, supporting Package Owners to expedite the scope of works and deliver high-quality outcomes. You will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the discipline design teams under the guidance of the Zone Design Manager, ensuring effective work packaging and resource allocation. This includes reviewing designs at every DEWA stage, managing discipline deliverables, and ensuring that quality assurance, verification, and approvals meet project standards. Your role will also involve supporting the production of reports, providing subject matter expertise, and maintaining thorough oversight of project objectives including time, budget, and quality.
You will play a critical part in facilitating collaboration and effective liaison with other disciplines, stakeholders, and third-party reviewers such as provincial and municipal authorities. By conducting functional and technical reviews of design packages prior to release and reviewing completed verification forms, you will ensure compliance and support the progressive writing of final reports. Maintaining a strong focus on compliance, you will address design nonconformances, review the suitability of incoming information, and ensure due consideration of workplace health, safety, and environmental issues throughout the design process.
As part of your leadership, you will also be responsible for ensuring that Package Owners and design teams have a sound understanding of DEWA, DBA, and Design Services Agreement requirements. You will engage with the Verification Team to manage reviews efficiently, participate in interdisciplinary reviews, and work closely with the Design Manager and Zone Design Managers for project-wide consistency and decisive decision-making. Additionally, you will develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the Design-Builder, TICorp, provincial representatives, and Design-Builder Design Managers, promoting effective communication and collaboration.
Your accountability extends to authorizing design changes, coordinating the resolution of design queries, and supporting the wellbeing of your team. You will identify and manage technical risks, including non-compliances, scope changes, and variations, ensuring all activities comply with contractual and design management plan requirements. Overseeing the Safety in Design process, you will appoint SiD Champions and coordinate with Systems Assurance, Requirements, and Integration Management. Ultimately, you will provide solutions to complex technical issues, facilitate the checking, review, and verification process, and work proactively to ensure that all design packages within your discipline are delivered on program, meet technical standards, and align with project objectives.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Professional Structural Engineer
- Expertise in Cut and Cover
- Over 10 years’ experience in their respective discipline
- Major project experience in the coordination and management of complex technical requirements and interfaces
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.
The salary range for this position is $112,000 - $162,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.
About Arcadis
Arcadis is your global sustainable transformation partner. Proven pioneers for a sustainable future, partnering on the most transformative projects of our time.
With over 36,000 people active in more than 30 countries, we bring together the best minds from around the world to deliver intelligent products and solutions that address the challenges of climate change, energy affordability and livable cities. We go beyond traditional design, engineering, architecture and consultancy, using data-driven insights for tailored solutions in the environments we co-create.
Whether reducing flood risks in the Netherlands, strengthening New York’s coastlines against hurricanes or revolutionizing Sydney’s transit system, our world-changing solutions leave a positive and lasting impact.
Our work has helped more than a third of the world's communities become more resilient, and hundreds of clients to advance their decarbonization and net-zero goals. Together, we are committed to solving today's greatest problems; and creating a blueprint for a better, more sustainable future, designed to thrive.
Arcadis. Improving quality of life.
Cut and Cover Structural Engineering Lead
About the role
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.
Role description: Arcadis is seeking a Cut and Cover Structural Engineering Lead to join the Fraser River Tunnel Project team. The successful candidate will be responsible for all technical aspects of the project’s cut and cover structural engineering services, including ensuring technical contract compliance and maintaining the highest standards of product quality and design approvals. Reporting to the Design Manager, this leader will provide technical guidance to the design team and will be accountable for the overall delivery of all technical outputs and design documentation within the discipline. The Cut and Cover Structural Engineering Lead will play a critical role in ensuring quality, consistency, and compliance across all stages of design and construction for the project’s cut and cover elements.
Role accountabilities: In this role, you will provide technical leadership and direction in your field of discipline, supporting Package Owners to expedite the scope of works and deliver high-quality outcomes. You will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the discipline design teams under the guidance of the Zone Design Manager, ensuring effective work packaging and resource allocation. This includes reviewing designs at every DEWA stage, managing discipline deliverables, and ensuring that quality assurance, verification, and approvals meet project standards. Your role will also involve supporting the production of reports, providing subject matter expertise, and maintaining thorough oversight of project objectives including time, budget, and quality.
You will play a critical part in facilitating collaboration and effective liaison with other disciplines, stakeholders, and third-party reviewers such as provincial and municipal authorities. By conducting functional and technical reviews of design packages prior to release and reviewing completed verification forms, you will ensure compliance and support the progressive writing of final reports. Maintaining a strong focus on compliance, you will address design nonconformances, review the suitability of incoming information, and ensure due consideration of workplace health, safety, and environmental issues throughout the design process.
As part of your leadership, you will also be responsible for ensuring that Package Owners and design teams have a sound understanding of DEWA, DBA, and Design Services Agreement requirements. You will engage with the Verification Team to manage reviews efficiently, participate in interdisciplinary reviews, and work closely with the Design Manager and Zone Design Managers for project-wide consistency and decisive decision-making. Additionally, you will develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including the Design-Builder, TICorp, provincial representatives, and Design-Builder Design Managers, promoting effective communication and collaboration.
Your accountability extends to authorizing design changes, coordinating the resolution of design queries, and supporting the wellbeing of your team. You will identify and manage technical risks, including non-compliances, scope changes, and variations, ensuring all activities comply with contractual and design management plan requirements. Overseeing the Safety in Design process, you will appoint SiD Champions and coordinate with Systems Assurance, Requirements, and Integration Management. Ultimately, you will provide solutions to complex technical issues, facilitate the checking, review, and verification process, and work proactively to ensure that all design packages within your discipline are delivered on program, meet technical standards, and align with project objectives.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Professional Structural Engineer
- Expertise in Cut and Cover
- Over 10 years’ experience in their respective discipline
- Major project experience in the coordination and management of complex technical requirements and interfaces
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.
The salary range for this position is $112,000 - $162,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.
About Arcadis
Arcadis is your global sustainable transformation partner. Proven pioneers for a sustainable future, partnering on the most transformative projects of our time.
With over 36,000 people active in more than 30 countries, we bring together the best minds from around the world to deliver intelligent products and solutions that address the challenges of climate change, energy affordability and livable cities. We go beyond traditional design, engineering, architecture and consultancy, using data-driven insights for tailored solutions in the environments we co-create.
Whether reducing flood risks in the Netherlands, strengthening New York’s coastlines against hurricanes or revolutionizing Sydney’s transit system, our world-changing solutions leave a positive and lasting impact.
Our work has helped more than a third of the world's communities become more resilient, and hundreds of clients to advance their decarbonization and net-zero goals. Together, we are committed to solving today's greatest problems; and creating a blueprint for a better, more sustainable future, designed to thrive.
Arcadis. Improving quality of life.