Project Manager in York, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom
York, Yorkshire and the Humber, United Kingdom |
GBP £48000.00 to £55000.00 Per Annum |
Permanent
Due to an increase in workload, our client, global infrastructure leader, is now looking for a Project Manager with a rail background to join their team in either York or Birmingham working on projects such as HS2 and TRU.
There will be a level of flexibility offered with the role as our client has adopted a hybrid working policy.
Principal responsibilities:
- Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, at all levels within the organisation to define and achieve mutual understanding of the scope.
- Understand what constitutes an end-to-end, thorough, cross-functional schedule for the project and involve stakeholders as appropriate to create a valid plan. Be able to discuss risk areas and convey impacts to scope or costs if a shorter schedule is demanded.
- Continual management and development of client relationships.
- Plan the project(s) in sufficient detail to ensure integration of all activities, dependencies, and understanding of critical paths and key milestones.
- Ensure a comprehensive budget is prepared, reflecting the plan and all resource needs.
- Ensure non-people resources are identified (e.g. tools, equipment, logistical costs etc.) so that the project budget will be accurate and remain affordable.
- Direct and motivate the project team(s) to achieve the desired results, often using matrix management, and ensure effective communication is maintained throughout the project.
- Ensure effective management of third party suppliers to the project(s).
Key skills/experience required:
- Solid experience within the Rail industry
- Proven experience of delivering projects to time, cost and quality.
- Robust stakeholder management skills and a natural ability to expand and develop client relationships
- Experience of different project management approaches e.g. agile and waterfall.
- Sound Commercial and Contractual understanding of commonly used Construction Industry Contracts.
- Outstanding communication and negotiation skills
Qualifications:
- Membership of The Association for Project Management and/or membership of a relevant professional institution and/or relevant demonstrable experience.
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