Senior Project Manager - Environment (Thames)
Job description
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Project Manager to join the team at Galliford Try. As Senior Project Manager you will lead and deliver large complex projects (up to £40m in value) with responsibility for developing the delivery strategy progressing the project through engineering, procurement and construction phases to final handover. You’ll showcase your strong project management capability to maximise the safe and efficient delivery of the work as well as proactively manage interfaces with stakeholders, accurately reporting and communicating on key issues, progress, risk and opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
- The develop, plan, control, coordinate and execute the project exceeding the project parameters by proactively monitoring and analysing performance at tranche and project level.
- Lead, organise, direct and manage the project team and supporting staff
- Identify resource requirements and support requirements, liaising with business unit managers
- Ensure the health, safety and environment performance of all operations under your control is managed to the highest standards and that appropriate action is taken whenever operations fail to meet legal or the Company’s health and safety standards
- Developing the delivery strategy to meet the project KPI’s
- Ensure adherence to the Asset Lifecycle Process (ALP), managing stages as required
- Ensure project/tranche governance is managed professionally
- Ensure risks and opportunities are identified, managed, contingency plans put in place and reported
- Ensure accurate records are kept and stored in line with the company requirements
- Ensure that the project(s) meet the quality KPI’s and that corrective management is effectively applied where appropriate
- Stakeholder management and communication including the supply chain
- Monitor project(s) performance and providing reports that effectively communicate the status of progress, performance against budget, key issues and mitigations, forecasting the future position and quality KPI’s
- Ensuring the project(s) are delivered to the BMS processes and procedures and apply best practice and a continuous improvement approach, to ensure efficiency targets are met.
- Manage, reduce, and drive out unnecessary costs and inefficient activities.
- Work with Client team members to jointly meet the project KPI’s and jointly agree project performance reports
Experience and Qualifications:
- Passionate, strong leadership
- Commitment for delivering excellence
- Solid track record for delivering multidisciplinary projects within the water industry (Idelal)
- Civil engineering qualifications
- Extensive project management capabilities
- Lead, inspire and manage our teams to strive for exceptional levels of performance
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £3.2 billion we are one of the industry’s leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK’s most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we’re poised for further growth and success, so if you’re committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you. We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our ‘Be Well’ programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.
Our benefits:
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Childcare vouchers
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our Environment business please contact Eurica Franks on [email protected].
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, part-time and / or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage you and would be grateful if you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Galliford Try is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sectors of the community.
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