JOB TITLE: PROJECT MANAGER

REPORTING TO:

Design Manager, Delivery Manager as appropriate

JOB PURPOSE :

Management and delivery of a wide range of projects through whole lifecycle, from transformational business improvements to cyclical highway maintenance services to time, cost, quality, specification, safety and environmental requirements.

KEY TASKS AND ACCOUNTABILITES :

• Manage projects on a day-to-day basis, within agreed constraints and authority.
• Ensure the projects comply with health, safety and environmental regulations and that issues of health, safety and environment are paramount to the projects.
• Manage and deliver the projects, to time, cost and quality targets.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, standards and processes.
• Ensure that the projects deliver the required products at each stage of the project lifecycle, to the required standard of quality, and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
• Report project progress.
• Identify and implement process improvements. Establish the project organisation: define roles, responsibilities and deliverables for all team members.
• Manage and administer consultant and supplier contracts.
• Manage project resources.

MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

• Feedback from progress meetings with Line Manager and colleagues
• Scheme deadlines all met
• SPI results are analysed and achieved
• Continuous improvement process shows an increase in SPI targets met

SERVICE STANDARDS:

• Act with integrity and professionalism at all times
• Be open and honest in working relationships
• Flexibility and resilience
• Respect for confidentiality
• Be an ambassador for the business at all times

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• At all times adhere to company procedures with regard to health and safety and
• where applicable to ensure all team members do likewise.
• At all times to behave in a way that supports the company's stated vision and values
• and where applicable to ensure all team members do likewise.
• This job may require working outside of normal office hours

PERSON SPECIFICATION

ESSENTIAL (E) / DESIRABLE (D)

EDUCATION:

• Degree qualification
• Appropriate professional qualifications in project management are essential or highly desirable.

E

D

EXPERIENCE:

• Experience of personal responsibility for managing highways maintenance and management projects and working in a large, complex, safety focused and integrated highways services organisation(s), and delivering to time, budget and quality.

• Technical experience relevant to the type of project is also required and this will vary from one project to the next.

E

D

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / COMPETENCIES:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrable communication and IT skills (including Word, Excel, MS Project and PowerPoint)
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills and an ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, whilst maintaining attention to detail
• Flexible approach to working hours, should it be necessary to work outside of the core working hours.
• Collaborative skills

E

ATTITUDE:

• Work under own supervision
• Active in looking at data to develop improvements
• Work in a team to deliver the service
• Constructively engage with people from all levels of East Sussex Highways to improve the service

Previous good attendance

E

OTHER: