Project Manager, Operations Management, Project & Program Management

Salary to be discussed, plus 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme

Reporting to the Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of projects and assigning work tasks, working closely with the engineering task management team. As Project Manager you will be responsible for leading the end-to-end delivery of railway projects, from initial concept through to successful client handover. Acting as the central liaison between cross-functional internal teams, external contractors, and supply chain partners, you will ensure the coordination of all site deliveries.

Ultimately, your role is to drive project success and commercial viability, mitigating operational risks, and managing strict budgets to guarantee all projects are consistently delivered on time, and to the highest quality specifications.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

Create and lead internal company projects to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints to meet the demands of the main internal projects.

Day to day management and leadership of projects. (delivering to and tracking project within the predefined budget.

Provide effective leadership and management controls, set project controls, design the project structure and organisation appropriate to stage.

Identify and manage stakeholder relationships and need for senior level support. Manage internal and external relationships as appropriate.

Ensure that internal and external communication with stakeholders is identified, monitored and controlled.

Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and elevate as appropriate. Identify and work with related projects to manage interdependencies.

Support effective governance and decision making.

Provide reporting and engage in mechanisms that hold you, as Project Manager, to account for delivery.

Engage with assurance reviews and support action on recommendations.

Organise assurance processes such as gateway reviews, as required.

Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.

Provide support, guidance and coaching for the project team. Lead by example and promote effective individual and team performance.

Show commitment to personal development. Cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team.

Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Manage performance and report progress to sponsors.

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

Formal qualification in Project Management, ideally APM PMQ or Prince 2 practitioner

Experience in managing complex engineering projects across the entire project lifecycle, ideally in the Rail industry

Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business needs.

Technical curiosity and commercial awareness.

Excellent customer and communication skills supported by good commercial understanding

Exceptional planning and prioritisation skills, keen drive for rapid delivery.

An engineering background would be highly advantageous particularly in the Rail Industry (with knowledge and experience of dealing with Network Rail and Tier 1 delivery teams).

Strong team player - able to manage multiple stakeholders in a collaborative manner

Quality and Customer focused

Confident and self motivated with the ability to adapt to change and manage multiple projects and priorities autonomously

Ability to apply problem solving principles to project challenges

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