Senior Project Manager

About The Role

The Senior Project Manager delivers project objectives with respect to the six key areas of performance:
Health & Safety, Quality, Cost, Environment, Delivery and People.

We are looking for a dynamic and self‑motivated individual with a strong project background to join this fast‑paced team to deliver the complex mechanical, electrical and technology highway schemes throughout their whole project lifecycle. Schemes range in value from £100k to £8m+. This role will also involve direct line management of project managers, assistant project managers and early careers, and the successful delivery of the programme of works on time and to budget.

• Stakeholder Management – develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, Self Delivery Lead, Delivery Leads, other colleagues, Construction/Supervisor Teams and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ delivery objectives, report on and review project performance, and agree solutions to issues.
• Maintain compliance with the DBFO contract clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues in a timely manner, producing accurate reports, and creating and maintaining specified records including change management.
• Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate, and develop, agree, and implement solutions to overcome these.
• Lead and oversee projects throughout their whole lifecycle through feasibility, design, construction and handover; inform investment proposals for our clients at each stage.
• Maintain global or master programme for whole portfolios.
• Prepare programme income and cost profiles, oversee and challenge the Project Managers’ input.
• Client liaison on a project and portfolio level.
• Chair and drive regular fortnightly project reviews to ensure the following are current and live:
• Project and division risk register.
• Project risk category (on financial spreadsheet).
• Review submissions register.
• Review of Correspondence Register progress comments and milestone dates.
• Project income and cost forecast (review of PM profiles).
• Project change.
• Project priorities (for resource allocation).
• Manage correspondence and queries through Aconex.
• Project change control and review processes and procedures.
• Allocate projects to PMs based on appropriate knowledge, experience, ability, and capability (workload).
• Work closely with the Construction/Supervisor team to ensure permits, certificates and site reporting are managed correctly and align to project needs.
• Manage NEC Contract Options as Project Manager.

• Experience in the delivery of mechanical and electrical and/or technology highway construction & maintenance operations or similar transferable experience.
• Project Management skills, preferably supported by recognised PM qualification such as PRINCE2, APMP, etc.
• Minimum HNC/HND (or equivalent) in a mechanical and electrical, civil engineering or other construction‑based discipline.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of other design areas.
• Understanding of environmental requirements of schemes.
• Experience coordinating interfaces with design teams and external resources.
• Understanding of H&S requirements related to highway construction & maintenance works.
• Knowledge of CDM and other H&S legislation; competent in exercising the duties under CDM.
• Applicable CSCS card.
• Team leadership and management experience in driving performance and productivity.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong customer focus with a service delivery mindset.
• Commercial understanding and budgetary control experience.
• Understanding of Lean principles.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual…