National Highways currently has an exciting opportunity for a Programme Delivery Manager to join our team based in the South East region. In this role you will lead the delivery of a portfolio of projects within the Region's in-year capital programme, ensuring specified outcomes, customer experience, quality, budgets, timescales, and operational key performance indicators. You will also provide direction and line management for a team of Project Managers, ensuring timely setting of objectives, performance management reviews and development of appropriate succession and development plans. This role can be based from either our Guildford, Basingstoke or Maidstone office.
Responsibilities
* Lead the delivery of tunnels and technology portfolios of projects within the Region's in-year capital programme, from preliminary design to introduction into service.
* Ensure that all projects in scope are delivered within agreed parameters for quality, cost and time, ensuring they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, quality and health and safety standards.
* Lead in the management and reporting against the capital expenditure budgets for all projects in scope, ensuring effective financial practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources.
* Proactively contribute to the identification and delivery of efficiencies, implementing relevant changes in own area of responsibility.
* Deliver effective leadership and oversight of supplier performance so that technical, customer service and performance standards are met, and that any early warnings, risks and issues are managed with minimum or no negative impact on delivery.
Qualifications and Experience
* Recognised qualification in a relevant engineering discipline or extensive experience in delivery of civil engineering projects and programmes.
* Extensive experience of managing the delivery of high value capital investment programmes and project portfolios.
* Understanding and experience of delivery of technology and tunnels renewal projects and programmes.
* Up to date knowledge and understanding of CDM and health and safety regulations.
* Knowledge of highways construction and maintenance practices.
* Previous experience of supplier and contract management.
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We are a Disability Confident employer.
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