NEC ECC Senior Project Manager

Role description

We are recruiting for a Senior Project Manager with proven experience in managing NEC ECC contracts to join our Water teams supporting flood defence schemes. You will work on a variety of flood defence and adaptation projects and provide early contractual advice and administration during the construction phase of schemes.

• Project manage a range of civil engineering, water and utility projects using the NEC4 / NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) including contract administration;
• Work collaboratively with all stakeholders – clients, contractors, consultants and 3rd party stakeholders – to ensure delivery is on time, within budget and to a high quality and in accordance with the NEC ECC contract;
• Provide high level advice and support to resolve issues during construction, ensuring that decisions are made on sound technical grounds in line with best practice and required standards and time frames;
• Monitor progress of work, identify risks in the delivery of priorities and implement timely resolution of issues to ensure appropriate reallocation of time, finance and effort;
• Provide good quality management reporting on service delivery to support the planning of operational work, inform business decisions and provide a sound basis for communication with and influencing internal/external partners;
• Lead or support project teams to achieve well‑planned and managed integrated solutions that progress effective change and improvement in the organisation and support the best environmental outcomes;
• Provide effective leadership to health & safety matters by actively promoting awareness and ensuring safe working practices.

• Experience of project management and ECC contract management to enable successful delivery of larger‑scale, complex and demanding projects according to agreed outcomes;
• Experience in Civil Engineering, Utilities, Water, Environment or Infrastructure projects;
• Strong and demonstrable experience with NEC forms of contract;
• Track record of leading integrated and multi‑disciplinary project management teams;
• Membership of ICE, RICS, APM or CIWEM is advantageous;
• NEC3 or NEC4 Accredited Project Manager is advantageous;
• Desired:
  Flood Risk Management experience and/or a background within Civil Engineering.

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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Work streams:
Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.