Senior Project Manager – Rail in London, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom |
Competitive |
Permanent
Senior Project Manager – Rail
Central London or Croydon
Within the UK the rail engineering sector is one of Arcadis growing markets. Our UK Team continues to add to their impressive list of project awards and recent successes have seen them secure some of the UK’s most high profile, complex and stimulating projects to complement their existing portfolio of works.
As a result of this continuing success, we are now keen to recruit a Senior Project Manager to be based in one of our London offices. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic and successful team. Successful candidates will be rewarded with a rich diet of interesting and challenging projects, and an opportunity to develop their careers with a growing and successful global engineering consultancy.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Demonstrably successful experience in delivering projects on time and within budget
- 5+ years supply side experience delivering complex capital projects (rail infrastructure sector
- is strongly desirable)
- Tenacious, can do and energetic orientation with high levels of ownership
- Able to build credible, collaborative but influential relationships with a range of clients
- First class cost management capability
- First class schedule and progress management capability
- Accomplished commercial acumen, ideally with NEC contract knowledge
- Strong technical aptitude with experience in civils or more than one railway systems discipline
- Effective safety leader, ideally with trackside and/or construction site experience
- Able to lead and build happy and cohesive teams while maximising performance
- Actively identifies and/or embeds both innovation and continuous improvement
- Able to improve develop their direct reports and wider colleagues through structured and effective personal coaching and reinforcing process and outcome accountabilities
- Readily able to operate as part of wider Rail and business management teams, including looking for cross project synergies and proactively driving a learning culture
- Familiar with quality assurance best practice
- Able to effectively implements project delivery best practice in most of the following areas: risk and change management, planning, project controls, project set-up, common date environments (including BIM and doc control)
- Strong interpersonal skills including written and verbal communications and ability to build influential relationships within Arcadis, its partners and its supplier chain
- Equally able to manage a small number of large projects or a portfolio/framework of small deliveries
- Readily able to operate in a D&E consultancy environment
- Contractor facing experience
- 3+ years’ experience in managing and integrating in-house and external design management resource
- Highly competitive salary
- Pension matched to 8%
- Healthcare
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- Annual Leave, with option to purchase additional days
- Annual Professional Institution Subscription Paid
- Tax Free Season Ticket Loan
- Flexible Benefits Scheme, including Cycle to Work and Childcare Vouchers
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Long Term Service Awards
- Refer a Friend Scheme that rewards you for every successful introduction you make
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