Project Manager

Lead the safe, predictable and commercially effective delivery of infrastructure projects, work packages or services through the full project lifecycle. The Project Manager integrates multidisciplinary functions, the customer and the supply chain to achieve agreed outcomes for scope, safety, quality, programme, cost, risk, sustainability and handover. 

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Responsibilities 

• Agree scope, acceptance criteria and delivery milestones with the client. Manage the schedule, budget, forecasts, risks and changes, and report progress to the Senior Project Manager.

• Establish and maintain a controlled baseline for scope, programme, cost, risk, change, design, procurement, quality, readiness and handover

• Coordinate engineering, procurement, site teams and suppliers. Visit work locations regularly to check progress, resolve delivery issues and manage interfaces with live operations.

• Plan work around site access and operational constraints. Work with the relevant specialists to meet health, safety, quality and environmental requirements.

• Plan commissioning and handback from the outset. Coordinate readiness reviews and testing, track outstanding actions, and secure acceptance with the agreed test records, handover documentation and any required operator training.

• Lead the assigned team, which may include project engineers and apprentices. Set priorities, delegate appropriately, and provide coaching and development support.

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, influencing and negotiation skills, with the ability to build trusted

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Experience in leading multidisciplinary teams and coordinating engineering, design, commercial, planning, procurement, SHE, quality and construction / delivery functions in a safety critical or highly regulated environment, 

• Commercial awareness and the ability to work effectively with quantity surveying / commercial teams on cost forecasting, variance, procurement and change.

• Experience of NEC3 / NEC4 or other collaborative engineering and construction contracts.

Desirable

• Experience of major programmes, frameworks, alliances, regulated utilities or highly regulated / operational sites.

• Experience managing multidisciplinary civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, control or process-related works.

• Experience of digital delivery, modern methods of construction, production thinking, value engineering or lean improvement.

• Degree, HNC/HND, apprenticeship or equivalent professional experience in project management, engineering,construction or a related discipline.

• Recognised project management qualification or professional development pathway, for example APM PMQ, PRINCE2, or equivalent experience, or progression toward chartered status.

• Re levant site-management / safety qualification, for example SMSTS, IOSH ManagingS afely or equivalent.

• Appropriate CSCS / competence card and sector-specific competence, security clearance or customer authorisations is desirable

• Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable.