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 skilled Design Interface Manager to support the Fraser River Tunnel Project (FRTP), a complex infrastructure initiative requiring seamless coordination across multiple engineering disciplines. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the design interfaces throughout the project lifecycle, with a particular focus on developing and implementing the technical definition process. Your expertise will ensure that all interface requirements are clearly defined, documented, and integrated into the project’s design solutions, supporting the successful delivery of a coordinated and constructible tunnel design.
In this position, you will lead and supervise the Zone Management team, overseeing requirements management and cross-discipline interface coordination. You will be accountable for establishing the cross-discipline interface requirements, ensuring their alignment and integration across all design teams. Conducting thorough technical reviews, you will facilitate collaboration between engineering disciplines and drive the resolution of interface issues, supporting both quality and project schedule objectives. Your leadership will be instrumental in coordinating technical inputs, maintaining robust interface management processes, and upholding Arcadis’ standards of excellence on the FRTP.
Role accountabilities:
In this role, you will lead and supervise adherence to project requirements, with a strong focus on cross-discipline interface management. You will be responsible for providing technical guidance and support throughout the design process, ensuring timely delivery of outputs from all disciplines and the development of integrated solutions. Working closely with the Design-Builder, you will help develop and maintain the Interface Management Plan, establishing processes to manage technical interfaces during the design phase. Your responsibilities include leading the application of these processes, as well as managing the technical coordination of the Consultant’s design with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
You will establish and maintain a comprehensive Technical Interface Register and associated Technical Interface Matrix, ensuring these are kept up-to-date as new information is received or disseminated through formal communications such as Technical Queries (TQs). In this capacity, you will identify all internal technical interfaces relevant to the Consultant’s scope and ensure clear, consistent sharing of information between all involved disciplines. Defining interface requirements and developing a coordinated interface schedule with clear milestones will be essential to tracking the progress of design integration, monitoring issues, and ensuring their timely closure. You will also ensure accurate documentation and status logging of interface issues, while facilitating the resolution process through regular coordination with Discipline Technical Leads, Package Owners, and the Design Manager, particularly in relation to specific project requirements such as those set by DEWA.
Additionally, you will represent the project in key design and technical meetings with stakeholders and during third-party reviews as needed. Organizing and participating in design coordination meetings and workshops, both internally and across disciplines, will be crucial to expediting necessary inputs and resolving interface issues. You will drive consistency in documentation across design packages, lead interdisciplinary reviews, and escalate unresolved issues promptly to the design manager or director. Furthermore, your role will involve undertaking functional and technical reviews of design packages before release, coordinating with the System Assurance Team on safety assessments related to interfaces, and ensuring all design teams provide the required inputs as per the agreed program.
Ultimately, you will guide and liaise with the Systems Requirements Manager, ensuring compliance with the Design Management Plan, Project Management Plan, and Quality Management protocols. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving effective coordination, integration, and quality assurance across all design and interface management activities.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 15+ years relevant experience
- Professional Engineering License
- Proven experience in the design of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects
- Demonstrated multi-disciplinary engineering management experience
- Demonstrated experience in the interface and interface management of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects
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 $128,000 - $178,000. 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.
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 skilled Design Interface Manager to support the Fraser River Tunnel Project (FRTP), a complex infrastructure initiative requiring seamless coordination across multiple engineering disciplines. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the design interfaces throughout the project lifecycle, with a particular focus on developing and implementing the technical definition process. Your expertise will ensure that all interface requirements are clearly defined, documented, and integrated into the project’s design solutions, supporting the successful delivery of a coordinated and constructible tunnel design.
In this position, you will lead and supervise the Zone Management team, overseeing requirements management and cross-discipline interface coordination. You will be accountable for establishing the cross-discipline interface requirements, ensuring their alignment and integration across all design teams. Conducting thorough technical reviews, you will facilitate collaboration between engineering disciplines and drive the resolution of interface issues, supporting both quality and project schedule objectives. Your leadership will be instrumental in coordinating technical inputs, maintaining robust interface management processes, and upholding Arcadis’ standards of excellence on the FRTP.
Role accountabilities:
In this role, you will lead and supervise adherence to project requirements, with a strong focus on cross-discipline interface management. You will be responsible for providing technical guidance and support throughout the design process, ensuring timely delivery of outputs from all disciplines and the development of integrated solutions. Working closely with the Design-Builder, you will help develop and maintain the Interface Management Plan, establishing processes to manage technical interfaces during the design phase. Your responsibilities include leading the application of these processes, as well as managing the technical coordination of the Consultant’s design with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
You will establish and maintain a comprehensive Technical Interface Register and associated Technical Interface Matrix, ensuring these are kept up-to-date as new information is received or disseminated through formal communications such as Technical Queries (TQs). In this capacity, you will identify all internal technical interfaces relevant to the Consultant’s scope and ensure clear, consistent sharing of information between all involved disciplines. Defining interface requirements and developing a coordinated interface schedule with clear milestones will be essential to tracking the progress of design integration, monitoring issues, and ensuring their timely closure. You will also ensure accurate documentation and status logging of interface issues, while facilitating the resolution process through regular coordination with Discipline Technical Leads, Package Owners, and the Design Manager, particularly in relation to specific project requirements such as those set by DEWA.
Additionally, you will represent the project in key design and technical meetings with stakeholders and during third-party reviews as needed. Organizing and participating in design coordination meetings and workshops, both internally and across disciplines, will be crucial to expediting necessary inputs and resolving interface issues. You will drive consistency in documentation across design packages, lead interdisciplinary reviews, and escalate unresolved issues promptly to the design manager or director. Furthermore, your role will involve undertaking functional and technical reviews of design packages before release, coordinating with the System Assurance Team on safety assessments related to interfaces, and ensuring all design teams provide the required inputs as per the agreed program.
Ultimately, you will guide and liaise with the Systems Requirements Manager, ensuring compliance with the Design Management Plan, Project Management Plan, and Quality Management protocols. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving effective coordination, integration, and quality assurance across all design and interface management activities.
Qualifications & Experience:
- 15+ years relevant experience
- Professional Engineering License
- Proven experience in the design of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects
- Demonstrated multi-disciplinary engineering management experience
- Demonstrated experience in the interface and interface management of multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects
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 $128,000 - $178,000. 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.