Job Description
We invite you to bring your project management expertise into play as you contribute to our sustainable engineering projects both in the UK and overseas. To succeed in this role, you must have excellent communication skills and experience of the design and construction process.
If this sounds like you, or you’re curious to learn more, then this role could be the perfect opportunity. Join the UK team as a new Project Manager and work with us to close the gap to a sustainable future.
Your new role
Your key responsibilities will be:
1. Delivery of projects from inception to completion ensuring that scope, contracts, programmes, change management, risk registers, budgets and QA procedures are all in place and maintained through the life of a project
2. Managing the design process through design workshops and leading project meetings
3. Communicate with and represent the Client’s interest and provide a professional and cost-effective service that meets the Stakeholder’s expectations
4. Management of sub-consultants as the project requires, typically this may be quantity surveyors, architects or specialist designers
5. Assuming responsibility for the day to day management of all project activity including Monthly Reports, budgets, Minutes and (MS Project) Programmes, delivery of presentations and chairing end-user and design workshops
6. Ensuring coordinated and high-quality deliverables from our multidisciplinary teams
Your key deliverables over the first 24 months for this role will be:
7. Preparation and delivery of projects to budget, time and quality
8. Coordinating design deliverables and ensuring quality outputs
9. Developing safe, sustainable and profitable solutions
Your new team
As our new Project Manager, you will be part of our project management team in the UK, reporting into the project management lead in the office and linked into the wider UK Buildings Division. We work across a variety of projects and sectors from large defence schemes, overseas embassies, to infrastructure projects in Antarctica.
About you
10. Minimum HNC/HND in a project management, building/civil engineering or related discipline
11. Track record demonstrating experience of the design (or construction) process
12. Experience of managing commercial processes on projects
13. A basic understanding of procurement methods and contract administration
14. Ability to write high quality reports and be able to interrogate financial information
15. Preferably a member or an associate member of an appropriate construction focused association or Institute (APM / ICE) etc. If not currently a member of such organisation you will be supported to work towards and achieve this qualification within a reasonable agreed timeframe
16. UK resident for 5+ years, to apply for security clearance.
Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role are:
17. You are a confident communication and listener
18. You have the ability to manage multiple stakeholder requirements and then communicate these requirements back to the project teams, often across geographical borders
19. You can organise yourself and others, and prioritise activities
20. You are a confident user of MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and can navigate information storage solutions (common data environments) and follow internal processes and systems
What we can offer you
21. Investment in your development
22. Leaders you can count on, guided by our Leadership Principles
23. Be valued for the unique person you are
24. Never be short of inspiration from colleagues, clients, and projects
25. The long-term thinking of a foundation-owned company
26. Be at the forefront of the use of digital tools
27. Flexible work environment
28. 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays
29. Matched pension contributions
30. A host of subsidised benefits including private medical insurance and cycle-to-work
Work at the heart of sustainable change
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering and consultancy company. We believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. At Ramboll, our core strength is our people, and our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act. Being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. We embrace an inclusive mindset that looks for fresh, diverse, and innovative perspectives. We respect, embrace, and invite diversity in all forms to actively cultivate an environment where everyone can flourish and realise their full potential.