Environmental Project Manager

Company: Arcadis
Location: Hightstown
Posted on: April 1, 2026

Job Description:

Description 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 Project Manager to join the Resilience Business Area in East Windsor, NJ. As a Project Manager, you will work with a dynamic and growing team to support projects through all phases of the site evaluation and remediation life cycle. This role is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual seeking career growth in environmental consulting and the environmental remediation market. In this full-time position, you will lead a team of professionals to execute work across multiple sites, managing environmental investigation, remediation, and regulatory compliance efforts. You will collaborate closely with technical experts to address each site’s unique characteristics and challenges. This role offers the opportunity to develop and refine essential project and program management skills within the environmental industry. At Arcadis, our dynamic work culture emphasizes collaboration, mentoring, and professional development at all levels—providing a foundation for career growth through expanded networks and opportunities. Candidates local to the New Jersey and Eastern PA areas required. While this position is primarily office-based, occasional field site visits may be required to ensure adherence to health and safety protocols, verify quality of work execution, and mentor junior staff. Role accountabilities: As a Project Manager, you will bring exceptional attention to detail, strong written and verbal communication skills, the ability to work independently, and the capacity to excel as a productive member of a high-performance team. Your primary responsibilities will involve managing multiple project sites at various stages of environmental investigation, remediation, and monitoring. You will work collaboratively with a team that includes field technicians, field scientists, task managers, assistant project managers, and technical experts to execute project tasks effectively. Throughout this process the project manager will be responsible to timely client and regulatory communications and management of project budgets. Successful candidates for this position will have prior experience in the environmental industry, including site evaluation, remediation, and project management. You will have a solid understanding of environmental investigation and remediation within the framework of state and federal regulations. Key responsibilities of project management include driving the scope, schedule, and budget for multiple sites while ensuring strict adherence to health and safety requirements. Key responsibilities include: Managing scope, schedule, and budgets for tasks such as well installation, site investigation, site remediation, site operations, maintenance, and monitoring and other fieldwork. Corresponding with clients, stakeholders, and regulatory agencies. Overseeing project financial management and ensuring accountability. Writing and reviewing technical reports, proposals, and cost estimates. Coordinating work schedules with Arcadis staff and subcontractors. Promoting health and safety stewardship, including conducting local field visits. This role provides an exciting opportunity to lead impactful environmental projects, develop management skills, and collaborate with a team of professionals in a dynamic and supportive work environment. Qualifications & Experience: Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Geology, Environmental Science, Engineering, or a closely related field. 6 years of experience in environmental consulting. 2 years of project management experience. Preferred Qualifications: Experience working with clients in the oil and gas market sector. Familiarity with New Jersey and surrounding state’s environmental regulations. 40-Hour HAZWOPER Training. 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 15 days PTO that accrue per year. The salary range for this position is $86,496 - $152,675. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location. LI-DW2 Resilience-NA Environment-NA LI-Hybrid

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