Senior Project Manager
RPS has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our Clean Water Network Team. This is a senior level position and will deliver and build upon our existing frameworks and relationships with utilities companies across Scotland.
About the Role:
Existing projects are primarily focused on reducing the risk of discolouration in the clean water network for our client through the design and delivery of efficient, non-intrusive cleaning techniques while managing broad sets of data. Continuous innovation in this area is ongoing, through development of new techniques and enhancing existing ones.
Your responsibilities will also include developing new opportunities for projects; preparing/reviewing proposals; management of project contracts, project cash flow, building and maintaining great working relationships with your project stakeholders; providing technical guidance for your projects; supporting and developing your team.
The health and safety of your team will be another key aspect of the role, ensuring policies and procedures are followed, training is kept up to date and investigations are carried out to a high standard.
Your Responsibilities:
1. Managing a Programme or Framework of projects through the entire project lifecycle from Inception through to handover and closure by utilising the 4 key pillars of project management: PLAN, ORAGANISE, LEAD & CONTROL.
2. Working within the RPS Clean Water Business area
3. Leading change management, continual Improvement and incremental growth of business and people to realise a ‘high performing teams’ culture.
4. Manage the health, safety and wellbeing of our office based and field-based teams
5. Safety, ethics, integrity, and the environment – always embraces and upholds RPS high professional standards, advocacy - an ambassador for our wider business at all times
6. Establish and manage collaborative and remote working teams
7. Deliver a high level of customer service to our external and internal customers
8. Motivate, lead, and manage a multidisciplinary team
About You:
Ideally based in the Scottish Central belt area, you will have a good understanding of contract conditions and strive to improve on financial targets whilst delivering on all quality and safety requirements.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
9. Team leadership - experience of successfully leading integrated/blended/diverse/multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex project outputs and programme outcomes.
10. Communication – high emotional intelligence - listens and questions effectively, concise verbal and written communication skills. High IT literacy being able to communicate with both business and IT teams. Able to communicate with confidence to stakeholders at all levels
11. Strive to exceed client aspiration and are goal driven
12. You will have extensive experience in the leadership and management of people and projects, ideally gained in the utility service industry or similar and will have the ability to deliver results in an often unpredictable, operational environment.
13. You will have proven experience managing performance and able to analyse data to implement change, coupled with outstanding communication skills, the ability to engage at all levels, influence others and effectively contribute to contract and business development strategy ensuring efficient use of resources and equipment.
14. Proficient in the use of the MS office suite, work management systems and applications are essential.
Qualifications:
15. Degree qualified in a relevant subject is desirable although significant previous experience may be considered
16. Hold an industry recognised Project Management qualification such as PRINCE2 or APM
17. IOSH managing safely
18. Development – wants to continually develop new skills in themselves and others through continuous professional development and other means
19. A full UK driving licence is also essential.
What’s in it for you?
We will provide you with a flexible, friendly and creative environment to develop your skills and challenge yourself. Successful candidates are trained by industry-leading professionals who are committed to the personal development of their teams. We also run a comprehensive suite of training courses throughout the year which focus on softer skills and personal development, with needs identified through our annual appraisal process.
A personal development plan and a transparent career pathway puts you in the driving seat of your career and you’ll be supported as far as you want to go.
Why RPS?
We’re a connected community, working together to achieve exceptional outcomes. We understand the need to work flexibly, empowering our people to create a work life balance that’s right for them. We also understand the importance of collaboration and social connection in the office environment. With agile offices and hybrid working offered as standard, we trust our people to find the right balance to meet client needs – this is a workplace that works for you.
RPS, A Tetra Tech company:
Representing an exciting new chapter in our business, on 24 January 2023 RPS became a Tetra Tech company. With 27,000 employees in more than 550 offices in more than 120 countries on seven continents, Tetra Tech is a leading, global provider of consulting and engineering services. As a Tetra Tech company, RPS is proud to offer our people market-leading development and project opportunities, helping to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.
About RPS Water Consulting
It’s an exciting time to be working for our Water business in Scotland as part of the UK Team as our workload in the water market really takes off. With a broad portfolio of long-term framework agreements in place, we are ideally placed to help our clients deliver on the challenges facing them over the coming years - whether that is reducing leakage, pollution and flooding, or improving the environment and levels of service to their customers.
We deliver a full range of end-to-end water and wastewater services including data collection and analytics; modelling and risk analysis / optimisation; data visualisation and mapping; artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions; feasibility studies; outline and detailed design of capital solutions; and development of optimised, risk based, operational interventions.
This is an evolving industry, providing challenges and opportunities which require innovation, dedication, and team work to help us meet our clients’ needs.
Come and join our team and truly make a difference to the future of water!
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