Job Description

About The Job

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.

About the Role:

Arcadis is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Project Scheduler with 4–5 years of experience supporting Life Sciences projects in pharmaceutical, biotech, or related industries. The ideal candidate will have a strong grasp of project scheduling principles and tools, capable of developing, maintaining, and analyzing integrated project schedules to support successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain detailed project schedules covering design, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and validation activities.
• Collaborate closely with project managers, engineers, contractors, and other stakeholders to gather input and update schedule progress.
• Perform critical path analysis, resource loading, and what-if scenario planning to optimize schedule performance and mitigate risks.
• Monitor schedule variances and assist in developing recovery plans as needed.
• Prepare and present schedule reports, dashboards, and look-ahead plans for project teams and leadership.
• Ensure schedules align with project milestones, deliverables, and contractual obligations.
• Integrate scheduling efforts with project controls systems, including cost tracking and change management processes.
• Participate in schedule risk analysis and forecasting activities to support proactive project management.

Required Qualifications:

• 4–5 years of experience in project scheduling, preferably within Life Sciences (pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device) or construction projects.
• Proficiency in Primavera P6 is required; familiarity with MS Project or other scheduling software is a plus.
• Strong understanding of project controls, earned value management (EVM), and scheduling best practices.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage schedules in a fast-paced, multi-project environment involving cross-functional teams.

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. Salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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