Our client is currently sourcing an experienced Principal Project Manager (Multi-disciplined) to join their North West team on a contract to permanent basis.

As Principal Project Manager you will be responsible for managing the successful development and delivery of Multidisciplinary Railway enhancement works and also lead the team and integrate the rest of the programme to take the project(s) from early GRIP stages to delivery in line with the client requirements.

Main responsibilities

• Support other Senior Project Manager’s by delivering individual projects or parts of projects safely to time, cost and quality, in accordance with the Governance for Railway Investment Projects (GRIP), applicable Railway Group standards, the client governance, and other specific legislation.
• Aligning individual projects or parts of projects with the overall client business strategy and processes.
• Manage geographically spread multi-disciplinary teams including: design, environmental, consents, commercial, procurement, estimating, programme controls, engineering, survey, construction, health and safety; and others to identify and deliver solutions to meet the client requirements and establish a robust baseline plans.
• Lead the constructability input into the design process to ensure buildability for individual projects or parts of projects.
• Support the consents team to obtain all consents for individual projects or parts of projects to meet delivery timescales including identifying opportunities to gain efficiencies via obtaining consents route wide for the portfolio.
• Confirm and validate engineering access requirements to deliver individual projects or parts of projects.
• Lead the production of the delivery schedule to drive requirements to align with the wider engineering access and consents strategy.
• Support in developing access requirements to deliver the individual projects or parts of projects.
• Co-ordinate and produce the necessary deliverables in order to support passing Stage Gates for individual projects or parts of projects, in addition to supporting the integration of the individual projects or parts of projects into the portfolio Stage Gate.
• Support the development of the Target Cost proposal with the client and supply chain for the individual projects or parts of projects.

Experience

• Proven experience in a Senior Project Manager's capacity in large Railway, multidisciplinary, enhancement projects development and delivery.
• Relevant successful experience in project managing the delivery of multi-disciplinary railway projects under the Governance for Rail Infrastructure Projects (GRIP). (Multidiscipline)
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Good commercial and financial understanding and knowledge
• Knowledge of Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations 2015.
• General knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental Regulations

Please call Steve on <phone number removed> for more information or forward suitable CV's to <email address removed>