Job Title: Project Manager – Service Delivery
Location: Kent/ Sussex (Office based) Full Driving licence is essential due to site visit requirement)
Perm/FTC: Permanent
Hours: 37
Salary: Up to £53,000 per annum (including a business needs car)
Job Description:
There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!
We are thrilled to share an opening within our service delivery team to recruit for a Project Manager to provide a cost-effective maintenance solutions service to Southern Water’s operational sites and to support the delivery of our core works. You will be responsible for the work life cycle; investigating cost effective options that meet operational needs, defining and communicating scope to contractors, managing the quality cost and timely delivery of solutions, and managing appropriate post-delivery close out.
Key duties will also involve in being in charge of the contract administration of multiple projects including cost and budget management, contract compliance, reporting, cost verification and H&S performance of Contractors.
Reporting to Senior Project Manager for Service Delivery contractor management, the team consist of six project managers within the operational service delivery planned maintenance project delivery team. The team deliver operational capital projects, with a value overall £50M across the team by turning key processes to deliver capital projects in accordance with time, cost and quality. An important role within Southern Water, you will be expected to use your previous skills and experience in financial and works management to ensure that projects and work programmes have robust cost control, to create a robust culture of strong governance and financial control.
Your key accountabilities will also include:
* Undertaking all duties, responsibilities and exhibiting the highest regard to health, safety and the environment during project delivery
* Managing and controlling contractor activities (H&S, scope of works, costs) through governance, including H&S audits, negotiating on scope and cost, and inspecting a selection of ongoing and completed jobs.
* Maintenance of budget and cost information for a number of work streams using developed management information and reports – including forecasting final costs and budget vs. cost analysis
* Finding innovative solutions to a variety of problems in order to balance the needs of Operations against cost restraints, ensuring essential work is undertaken and ‘gold plating’ is avoided.
* Ensure that payment applications are assessed against agreed costs and works satisfactorily completed.
* Visit selected site activities as required to undertake cost verification and relevant meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
* Focusing on the achievement of targets, milestones, KPIs and supporting in Southern Water’s SIM targets
* Building strong and effective working relationships with operational site owners, contractors, other members of the team, other business contacts and key stakeholders
To be successful in this role, you will have a strong technical/ operational experience with sound knowledge of maintenance project delivery. Good understanding of regulatory and legislative background and a thorough knowledge of contract/ commercial condition will be essential in this highly pivotal role. You will be confident in delivering cost effective solutions that meet the needs of our Operations and Customers which requires a high degree of liaison between site owners / Customer and contractors and directly leading to delivery of stretching objectives. In this very autonomous role, with your engaging approach to networking, negotiating and influencing skills will lead you to secure high levels of service from contractors ensuring contractor awareness of service and H&S requirements are met in this highly varied role.
It will be essential for you to have project management experience within a utility environment with sound operational knowledge. It will be ideal for you to have completed project related qualification (APM/ Prince 2) or willing to complete if you are successful in securing this role.
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.
Every Body Welcome
We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.
We succeed together
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Need flexibility in your work?
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role? #LI-Hybrid
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