Package Interface Managers
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: We are seeking an Interface Manager to lead the identification, documentation, and resolution of project interfaces across various packages in rail and transit infrastructure projects. This role involves maintaining interface control documents and schedules, coordinating with design teams, contractors, and stakeholders, facilitating workshops and meetings, monitoring and mitigating interface risks, supporting change management, ensuring compliance with project requirements, and providing regular status reporting to project leadership.
This role sits in our Mobility Global Business Area (GBA). We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.
Role accountabilities: The successful candidate will lead the identification, documentation, and resolution of interfaces between various project packages, including civil works, systems, stations, track, and signaling. This role requires a proactive approach to managing complex technical interactions to ensure smooth project execution.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining interface control documents, matrices, and schedules. These tools are essential for ensuring alignment across all disciplines and stakeholders involved in the project, supporting effective communication and coordinated delivery.
A key aspect of the role involves coordinating with internal design teams, contractors, client representatives, and third parties. You will manage technical and delivery interfaces, facilitating collaboration and addressing challenges that arise during project execution.
The candidate will facilitate interface workshops, design coordination meetings, and issue resolution sessions. These activities are crucial for promoting teamwork, resolving conflicts, and advancing project progress.
Monitoring interface risks and implementing mitigation strategies will be central to your responsibilities. By proactively addressing potential delays or scope conflicts, you will help maintain project timelines and deliverables.
You will support change management processes related to interface impacts, ensuring that all changes are appropriately documented, evaluated, and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
Ensuring compliance with project requirements, standards, and regulatory frameworks will be a key responsibility. You will play a vital role in upholding the integrity and quality of project outputs.
Finally, you will provide regular reporting on interface status, risks, and actions to project leadership. Clear and timely communication will support informed decision-making and maintain stakeholder confidence throughout the project lifecycle.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in rail and transit infrastructure projects, with a focus on interface management or multidisciplinary coordination.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.
- P.Eng. license in Ontario is preferred; candidates must be eligible to obtain licensure.
- Strong understanding of transit systems, infrastructure delivery, and stakeholder environments.
- Experience working on large-scale transit projects (e.g., LRT, subway, commuter rail).
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in interface management tools, project scheduling software, and document control systems.
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.
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Package Interface Managers
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: We are seeking an Interface Manager to lead the identification, documentation, and resolution of project interfaces across various packages in rail and transit infrastructure projects. This role involves maintaining interface control documents and schedules, coordinating with design teams, contractors, and stakeholders, facilitating workshops and meetings, monitoring and mitigating interface risks, supporting change management, ensuring compliance with project requirements, and providing regular status reporting to project leadership.
This role sits in our Mobility Global Business Area (GBA). We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring today’s mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the world’s growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.
Role accountabilities: The successful candidate will lead the identification, documentation, and resolution of interfaces between various project packages, including civil works, systems, stations, track, and signaling. This role requires a proactive approach to managing complex technical interactions to ensure smooth project execution.
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining interface control documents, matrices, and schedules. These tools are essential for ensuring alignment across all disciplines and stakeholders involved in the project, supporting effective communication and coordinated delivery.
A key aspect of the role involves coordinating with internal design teams, contractors, client representatives, and third parties. You will manage technical and delivery interfaces, facilitating collaboration and addressing challenges that arise during project execution.
The candidate will facilitate interface workshops, design coordination meetings, and issue resolution sessions. These activities are crucial for promoting teamwork, resolving conflicts, and advancing project progress.
Monitoring interface risks and implementing mitigation strategies will be central to your responsibilities. By proactively addressing potential delays or scope conflicts, you will help maintain project timelines and deliverables.
You will support change management processes related to interface impacts, ensuring that all changes are appropriately documented, evaluated, and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
Ensuring compliance with project requirements, standards, and regulatory frameworks will be a key responsibility. You will play a vital role in upholding the integrity and quality of project outputs.
Finally, you will provide regular reporting on interface status, risks, and actions to project leadership. Clear and timely communication will support informed decision-making and maintain stakeholder confidence throughout the project lifecycle.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in rail and transit infrastructure projects, with a focus on interface management or multidisciplinary coordination.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or related discipline.
- P.Eng. license in Ontario is preferred; candidates must be eligible to obtain licensure.
- Strong understanding of transit systems, infrastructure delivery, and stakeholder environments.
- Experience working on large-scale transit projects (e.g., LRT, subway, commuter rail).
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and organizational skills.
- Proficiency in interface management tools, project scheduling software, and document control systems.
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.