Our client is a major company in the UK Water
Sector. They are currently looking for a Project Manager to join them on a
permanent basis in Berkshire. This is an exciting opportunity to lead and motivate multi-disciplinary
project teams, responsible for managing projects from £100k to £1million. The successful
candidate will be managing a portfolio of around 20-30 schemes.
Role:
The
selected candidate will be responsible for developing solutions and ensuring
that project deliverables are achieved in a timely manner within cost. You will
manage a portfolio of projects through the entire lifecycle from outline
through design, construction and handover. As Project Manager, you will be the
main point of contact for external customers, project team members, and
internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Be the main point of contact for customers and internal
stakeholders.
- Delivery of project outcomes, taking into account Health and
Safety, programme, quality and cost.
- Project forecasting.
- Progress reporting against, time, cost and quality.
- Identifying and briefing appropriately profiled projects to meet
business requirements
- Drive continuous improvement.
- Drive constantly improving health, safety and environmental
performance.
- Initiate and develop communication and strong working relationships
with key stakeholders, both internal and external.
- Apply commercial acumen in managing contractors and suppliers to
deliver best value solutions to agreed projects.
Experience/Qualifications:
- Experienced leader with project management experience.
- Experience working on infrastructure projects – trunk mains, sewerage
systems, pipelines.
- Experience with NEC Forms of Contract.
- Comfortable adapting your communication style to field staff as
well as more corporate senior stakeholders, and you will display
demonstrable experience of this.
- Project delivery experience.
- The ability to gain credibility.
- Chartered Engineer (Advantageous).
- Project Management Qualification (Advantageous).
- Competent at using appropriate company IT systems and office
software.
- Previous experience of managing delivery partners and supply chain
across a large geographical region is also beneficial and you must be able
to present on deliverables and progress to senior stakeholders in an
articulate manner.
Benefits: