Project Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager, Operations Manager

Job Description

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Réalis Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and combines the best in project management and design management to provide a full suite of services to clients in the public and private sectors. The team is responsible for delivery of design services across our markets of Water Infrastructure, Defence Infrastructure, Nuclear, Aviation, Energy, Rail (stations), and Urban Developments.

We have an exciting vacancy within the Infrastructure PDP and are seeking an enthusiastic and confident Project Manager to join our North, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (NS&NI) practice, based in the Manchester / Leeds office. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a talented individual who want to take the next step in their career and take responsibility for projects from inception through to completion.

You will be an established Project Manager within the infrastructure sector; this role offers the chance to develop your career and expand your experiences across a wide range of challenging and exciting projects across varied markets. The position is likely to combine agile working from our NS&NI offices with time at client offices and sites.

Our need to recruit comes from the success of our division and our pipeline and expected growth within the Northern regions across a variety of sectors, predominantly in Defence, Water and Nuclear.

A role within the Infrastructure PDP offers the opportunity to work on the full suite of projects Atkins

Réalis delivers; be it refurbishment and new build projects; nuclear new build, defence, water, D&B projects and many more, which will enable you to demonstrate and progress your project management skills, knowledge and experience.

You are likely to have several years of multi-disciplinary infrastructure project delivery experience, ideally from within a consultancy environment. Working with the support of the PDP team, you will be responsible for delivering schemes to budget and programme through RIBA Stages 0-7 (or the sector equivalent) and be the main point of contact with our clients on these projects.

This is a great opportunity for you to work and develop within an internationally renowned consultancy, working on a variety of projects where your talent and skills can be demonstrated.

• Delivery of project management and contract administration through the project life cycle. Ensuring that there is a common understanding of requirements and scope, programme, costs, constraints, risk and interfaces across the team.
• Leading the project team - building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding, and developing the team. Communicating, liaising, and engaging with the client on a project-by-project basis.
• Deliver governance arrangements for projects within corporate and business policies, directives, guidance, and procedures to ensure a robust outcome.
• Ensure safety is prioritized throughout delivery. Manage the project within client and Atkins
  
  Réalis agreed budgets. Management of Risk (and Opportunity) for the project from inception through to completion.
• Administer and negotiate change control from inception through to completion.
• Manage approved sub-contractor procurement processes.
• Clear and accurate monitoring and reporting of project performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; both internally and externally.
• Mentoring and developing of Assistant Project Managers and other team members, as required. Cognisant delivery of projects and tasks in accordance with the Atkins
  
  Réalis Values;
  Safety, Integrity, Collaboration and Innovation.

• Ideally with a Project Management/Engineering/Building Surveying/Architectural background, with design management, project management and contract administration experience PMQ (or equivalent) recognized level of competence in Project Management - desirable.
• Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 or 4 and/or bespoke forms of contract. Experience of projects or assisting the management of projects from inception to…