Project Manager Stafford, England
Job description
We’re looking for Project Manager to join our Highways team based in Doxey Stafford to work within our Highways Major Project team based in the Midlands and Southern Region. Within this role, you can enjoy company car or car allowance, private healthcare, a competitive annual leave with the option to buy/sell and even more.
Can you imagine a world without roads or bridges? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Highways and make a difference. Connecting roads, connecting people.
Location: Doxey Stafford - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required
Contract: Permanent – flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know
Salary: £40k - £50k
Responsibilities
As a Project Manager, you’ll support the Pre-Construction Manager and Senior Project Managers in delivering the design Programme.
Your day to day will include:
- Working closely with the construction team, drive a construction lead approach to design, ensuring a smooth transition from design to construction
- Supporting digital approach to design and construction, working within a CDE environment
- Monitoring and tracking design programme and managing our design alliance partners to deliver design to programme and budget
- Drive efficiencies within design and capture change
- Manage and escalation of risk.
What are we looking for?
This role of Project Manager is great for you if have a:
- Degree in Civil Engineering
- Experience of working on major Highway schemes ideally for National Highways, with an understanding of the governance and assurance process.
- Managing Highways design programme and budgets
We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at [email protected] to discuss and arrange these.
We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more
- fantastic matched pension scheme
- life assurance
- a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans
- green car scheme
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.
Who is Kier?
As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.
Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.
We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
Closing Date: 20 April 2023
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
