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Project Manager

  • Location: Milton Keynes
  • Salary: Competitive
  • Job Type:Contract

Posted about 2 years ago

  • Sector: Infrastructure
  • Contact: Tristan Walker
  • Contact Email: twalker@nrl.co.uk
  • Contact Phone: +441483467294
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Expiry Date: 16 February 2022
  • Job Ref: 1039293
NRL are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to work with an engineering consultancy supporting the East West Rail project on a 6 month contract basis in Milton Keynes.

 

Role Responsibilities:
  • To supporting the Development Programme Managers and wider team in delivery of the programme
  • To provide reporting and information as required on progress and programme deliverables.
  • To manage specific areas of activity as delegated by the Development Programme Managers
  • Co-ordination of the different elements of the project to time, cost and budget and within the agreed governance
  • Identification of associated risks and issues arising from the programme
  • Development and lead on effective change and realisation of the project benefits
  • Manage budget and deliverables and where required monitor and prepare reports
  • Updating and reporting on progress and deliverables
  • Identification of resource and gaps in the programme
  • Manage suppliers and their project teams, where appropriate, ensuring that any of our client’s obligations are delivered
  • Communicate with statutory, legal and local authorities, residents’ associations, contractors, to maintain and promote a positive corporate image
  • Establish and maintain appropriate, professional and pro-active working relationship with supplier’s project management team
  • Take responsibility of your own and others’ health and safety by adopting and working to our client’s Health and Safety principles.
  • Co-operate with our client in all matters relating to health and safety, including following safe working procedures at all times.
  • Act as a role model for our client’s vision and values, behaving in ways that are aligned with our client’s Ways of Working, as well as encouraging and supporting others to do so too.
  • Promote diversity in the workplace and adopt appropriate behaviour when interacting with colleagues
 

What you will need:

Skills:
  • Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills (essential)
  • Confident, succinct and inspiring communication (essential)
  • Adept at balancing competing needs and pressures to achieve strategic aims (essential)
  • At ease with, and having an appetite for, technological change (desirable)
  • Degree qualified in an appropriate business discipline or an experiential equivalent (desirable)
  • Chartered membership of a relevant professional body (desirable)
Knowledge:
  • A deep understanding of project management, risk and change management and control
  • Good knowledge of programme and project management tools, i.e. PRINCE 2 (essential)
  • A good understanding of continuous improvement methodologies and ideas (highly desirable)
  • Knowledge of all project management activities and procurement (highly desirable)
Experience:
  • Broad experience of working as programme management for a complex, safety focused and regulated organisation with multiple complex interfaces, and delivering to time budget and quality (essential)
  • Significant experience of demonstrable personal responsibility for managing elements of projects of between £5m-£10m value (desirable)
  • Experience leading and/or participating in continuous improvement/innovation deployment in an engineering/construction environment (essential)
  • Sufficient seniority and credibility to be able to advise other members of the team on wider projects in relation to the programme.