Principal Management Consultant/AMI Expert (Finance)

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 looking for a full-time Principal Management Consultant/AMI Expert with experience in designing electrical power systems for the municipal water / wastewater industry to join our team in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico!

Our team is focused on management consulting to support water, gas, and electric utilities with technology advisory, strategy development, feasibility analysis, process improvement, procurement, project management, and project implementation. We are a team focused on growing our portfolio of project experience and delivering outstanding outcomes to our clients.

Role accountabilities:

A successful candidate will have expertise in some or all of these areas and be able to execute on deliverables as assigned. The role involves building and nurturing relationships with clients, client executives, systems integrators, partners, vendors, and internal department personnel, as well as providing and supporting pursuits and opportunities through bringing a network of contacts.

The candidate should have the ability to develop scopes of work and estimated fees in alignment with customer needs, serve as a liaison between technical personnel and functional business users in the project environment, and work at client sites as needed to assist the team in the day-to-day management of the overall systems deployment, testing, and acceptance. Responsibilities also include assisting utility clients with the development of an advanced meter infrastructure (AMI), CIS implementations, or other utility technology implementation planning and execution for water, gas, electric, or combination, supervising and supporting the work of others, and mentoring staff.

The candidate is expected to utilize best practices knowledge to assist in the development and implementation of tools, policies, and procedures to increase the effectiveness of company objectives, become an Arcadis Certified Project Manager within 6 months of hire, travel as needed up to 25% for project site visits, client meetings, and some international travel, conduct project communications with strong written, oral, and presentation skills, manage scope, schedule, budget, profit and loss, and project expectations, plan and direct user training where applicable, and plan and direct system testing where applicable.

Qualifications & Experience:

Required Qualifications:

• 15 years of relevant work experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology, preferably with an emphasis on power.
• Professional Engineering PE License in Puerto Rico.

Key Skills and Attributes:

• Understanding of Advanced Metering Infrastructure and meter-to-cash and utility business process and practices.
• Strong preference for past large utility experience for Water, Electric and Gas.
• Experience with a leading AMI solution is preferred.
• Excellent business judgment, problem framing and solving, project management and strong understanding of people analytics.
• Exhibit innovative thinking, collaboration, and comfort in solving ambiguous problems.
• Effective communicator with the ability to clearly and concisely articulate ideas, concepts, and proposals to different stakeholders.
• Languages, Spanish and English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MS or MBA) is preferred but not required.
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP) ability to obtain within 1 year of hire.

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 $104,400 - $170,000 /yr. Actual salaries will vary and are based on several factors, such as experience, education, budget, internal equity, project and location.

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