Senior Project Manager

Accountabilities:

Key responsibilities / duties:

• Stakeholder Management – Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, SPM, Construction/Supervisor Teams and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ delivery objectives, to report on and review project performance, and to agree solutions to issues.
• Maintaining compliance with the DBFO contract clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues in a timely manner, producing timely and 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. Where necessary develop, agree, and implement solutions to overcome these.
• Lead and oversee projects throughout their whole lifecycle through feasibility, design, construction and handover. Informing investment proposals for our clients at each stage
• Global or master programme maintenance for whole portfolios
• Programme income and cost profiles, overseeing and challenging the Project Managers input.
• Client liaison on a project and portfolio level
• Chairing and driving 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 AWN 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 reviewing processes and procedure
• Allocation of 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
• Managing NEC Contracts Options as Project ManagerWorking arrangements (shift work, need for travel etc)
  • Ability and willingness to travel to other offices and depots on the network as and when required
  • Periodic requirement for site visits (night shift)
  • Full Driving License

Who we are looking for?

• Experience in the delivery of highways construction & maintenance operations or similar transferable experience
• Project Management skills, preferably supported by recognised PM qualification, PRINCE2, APMP etc.
• Preference of minimum HNC / HND (or equivalent) in a civil engineering or other construction-based discipline.

• Broad knowledge and understanding of other design areas.
• Understanding of Environmental requirements of schemes
• Experience of 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

Personal Attributes:

• Proactive problem solving
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong safety management culture
• Self-aware and adaptable style to meet varying project needs.
• Resilient
• Presentation skills.
• Team building skills.
• Ability to prioritise and self-manage.

• Ability to develop relationships and engender trust.

Experience:

• Experience at a senior level in the delivery of highways construction & maintenance operations or similar transferable experience

• Previous experience in a similar role with demonstrable competence in relation to the majority of the responsibilities listed above.

• Experience of managing projects through complete lifecycle

Behavioural Competencies:

Living the Connect Plus Services values of:

1. Results Driven: Demonstrates a passion and excitement for their work.  Tackles problems head-on and works to resolve them without delay.
2. Focus on Excellence: Willing to learn and exceed expectations.  Searches for ways to add value and take performance to the next level.
3. Teamwork & Collaboration: Puts aside personal agendas to work for the benefit of customers and suppliers and other stakeholders.  Proactively builds knowledge through sharing knowledge, ideas, and expertise within the M25 community.
4. Operational Excellence: Plans and organises work to safely achieve maximum efficiency and output.  Delivers results consistently.
5. Adaptability: Learns quickly.  Adapts positively to changing business and customer demands.  Is energised by change.

Location:

This is a hybrid role designed to fully maximize team collaboration on the project, we therefore expect a minimum of 60% of your time to be spent at a CPS offices.

Note to all internal CPS employees:

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to recruitment@connectplusm25.co.uk

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

Due to the high volume of interest in this position, we will be closing the application process once we have received a manageable number of applications. We encourage interested candidates to apply early to ensure consideration.