Our consultancy client is seeking Project and Senior Project Managers to support their tier 1 contractor clients with Water projects across the UK on a permanent basis. The client is an international consultancy working across sectors in the UK including Water, Energy, Environment and Transportation. The UK portfolio spans a diverse range of work with project values from thousands to multi-million pounds, and the team leads large and complex, multi-discipline work packages. The role may involve managing standalone multimillion projects or collaborating as part of a larger team to deliver key components of major initiatives. The client is actively engaged in major AMP8 frameworks, working with leading water companies such as Severn Trent, United Utilities and Wessex Water, covering design-build alliances, specialist design development and professional services extending to 2030 and beyond. Collaboration with Tier 1 and Tier 2 contractors on design-build alliances ensures technical leadership and seamless programme integration. They also serve as a Technical Partner on a major Desalination Scheme to facilitate sustainable water supply solutions. The Project/Senior Project Managers will be the crucial link between clients and contractors, ensuring cost certainty, adherence to schedules and quality assurance across complex, multi-party frameworks.
Responsibilities
* Represent company values including promoting health and safety, working collaboratively and forming lasting relationships with clients/stakeholders.
* Be responsible for highly complex risk projects and/or programme and/or framework, or working as part of a wider team to deliver key elements of major, very highly complex and high profile projects, ensuring projects are delivered to time, cost and quality and in accordance with company processes and procedures.
* Coordinate the activities of a large and multidisciplinary project team to meet deadlines and achieve set targets in the most effective and efficient way.
* Work closely with your Project Teams to ensure client requirements are properly interpreted and reflected in the deliverables.
* Accountable for all commercial and financial matters, regularly reviewing and ensuring invoices are raised in accordance with the contract.
* Responsible for the day to day management of the work schedule and outcomes across entire project/programme/framework.
* Ensure regular and effective communication with clients and project teams.
* Produce accurate project management estimates, budgets and schedules for bids and projects.
* Responsible for planning and completing own clearly defined tasks to meet set project deadlines and communicate conflicting priorities.
* Contribute to the development of tools to support effective project delivery.
* Ensure company standards are implemented and adhered to across own Projects.
* Develop and mentor less experienced team members.
* Contribute to business development by maintaining client relationships and ensuring client loyalty and repeat work through excellent customer service.
Skills, experience and qualifications
* Qualification / Degree in relevant discipline.
* Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment.
* Strong commercial acumen in dealings with clients and projects.
* Strong relationship building and influencing skills.
* Proven experience in achieving project performance and business targets.
* Supervising, mentoring or developing less experienced engineers.
* Learning agility, actively learning through experimentation and experience and seeking ways to grow and to be challenged.
* Experience managing and delivering highly complex, multi-discipline projects as Senior Project Manager.
* Commercially aware: demonstrates working knowledge of external forces impacting financial, market, economic, legal and regulatory environments and how consultancy responds to them commercially.
* Agile learner: actively learns through experimentation and experience and seeks ways to grow and be challenged by new conditions.
* Client centric: anticipates and prioritizes client needs and takes action to provide high-quality client experience.
* Enabler of self and others: demonstrates trust by bringing the best of self, valuing others contributions, and engendering confidence and trust with others.
Benefits
* Salary dependant on level from £45-75k.
* Hybrid working with 3 office days in London/Manchester, Nottingham, Guilford, Leeds offices.
* Excellent company benefits package (discussed in detail upon application).
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