Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager (Glasgow or Edinburgh) Egis Group Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Job Description

As an active Senior PM in our team, you will undertake multiple and complex work assignments, delivering within time frames and managing resources to provide exemplary professional services to our clients. You will be comfortable working autonomously and within a team, and will deliver best in class services across multiple projects and sectors, for a broad range of clients.

Your approach will represent Egis' values and will provide a personal, quality focused service that delivers upon the clients business objectives. You will establish strong, supportive, professional relationships with colleagues, clients and the wider project teams built on mutual respect, trust and integrity all whilst contributing to Egis strategic business growth. Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Strategic project structuring and governance
• Development of Project Management Plans.
• Establishing and updating master programmes, identifying project milestones and project team member responsibilities.
• Interrogation of construction programmes, agreeing changes or enhancements.

• Defining, liaising with and managing key stakeholders.
• Establishing, implementing and leading project meetings with all project team members and stakeholder groups.
• Producing project correspondence ensuring actions are clearly defined and delivered upon by all project team members within agreed timescales.
• Preparing formal / informal reports on a regular basis to suit client requirements.
• Attending client board meetings as required and preparing / collating board reports in advance.

• Producing and issuing consultancy scopes of services and request for proposals and other appointment documents.
• Actively participating in the preparation of project tender documents in conjunction with the internal / external Cost Management department ensuring a full and comprehensive understanding of the project requirements is conveyed and reflected.
• Reviewing and commenting on tender returns from a technical compliance standpoint.
• Leading negotiations with contractors to ensure tender costs represent best value.
• Assisting with preparation of contract appointments.

• Reviewing and comment on design packages to ensure compliance with the project brief.
• Leading value engineering and risk review workshops.
• Compiling and tracking risk mitigation activities and value engineering opportunities.
• Assessing Contractor’s claims for delay events; working with commercial team members to establish entitlement.

• Assessing and reporting on design team / contractor progress and commercial matters during design and delivery.
• Formal client board reporting.
• Agenda setting / minute taking as well as action tracking.
• Managing the design teams/ contractor to ensure all contract requirements are fulfilled.
• Managing and co-ordinating responses to technical queries or requests for information.
  
  Processing Contract Instructions and other contractually mandated procedures.
• Ensuring stipulated levels of project governance are established and document management / communications protocols are adhered to.
• Recording of all correspondence and project information - Document Management System (DMS)

• Scheduling of project costs and negotiation of professional fees.
• Monitoring and reporting of project costs and fees.
• Requesting fee proposals and assessing the validity of requests for additional fees.
• Verification, allocation and processing of invoices.
• Preparing Change Requests and seeking costs / fees and any other implications from the project team.
• Arranging client approval of Change Requests and issuing instructions as…