Senior Project Manager - Rail

About Amey

Fundamental to living our core values is having great people in our business. That's why we believe that Amey is only as great as the people we employ. We place great value on our people and the contribution they make to our business, that’s why we aim to offer a competitive benefits package to all of our employees. Working for Amey you will receive a competitive salary and will be able to join our contributory pension scheme. In addition you will be entitled to Company sponsored life assurance and a generous holiday entitlement. You will also be invited to join Amey Choices which offers a range of flexible benefit options and offers additional benefits available throughout the year. Amey is an equal opportunities employer.

What is the purpose of this role?

The Project Manager is responsible for managing and delivering improvement projects.

What will this role involve?

Project Initiation

· Aligning the project with the overall Amey business strategy and obtain necessary business

and IT approvals

· Creating Project / Programme Brief, Project Initiation Document (PID), Communication Plan

and Project Quality Plan

· Defining the project business case, project objectives and scope

· Documenting critical success factors, project acceptance criteria and customer quality

expectations

· Ensuring that logs are set up for managing and tracking issues, risks, decisions and lessons

learned

· Overseeing quality control throughout the project cycle

· Project Planning

· Defining products / specific deliverables to be delivered by the project

· Ensuring that the engagement of any third party project resources is managed in accordance

with Amey procedures and policies

· Planning, executing and finalising projects according to agreed deadlines and within budget

· Preparing stage plans

· Securing the necessary resources and coordinate the efforts of team members and third

party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan

· Project Management

· Applying appropriate PRINCE2 principles to the management of projects in line with agreed

Amey standards

· Defining and managing the delivery of individual works packages

· Ensuring project compliance with Health and Safety, Environmental and other appropriate

regulations

· Forecasting and monitoring the financial performance of the project, giving regular

(minimum monthly) reports, comparing actual and forecast performance to plan and

explaining variations

· Maintaining regular liaison with all stakeholders and employees on the progress of projects

· Maintaining risk, issues and decisions logs and all other required project documentation

· Managing requests for change

· Managing, coaching and motivating members of the project team

· Preparing end stage reports

· Preparing weekly / monthly status, checkpoint and decision reports for meetings with the Head of Performance Management and relevant project stakeholders

• Taking appropriate action in order to ensure that the project / programme is able to deliver to the required quality, on time and to budget
• Where appropriate, ensuring that Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques are applied to analyse data, identify root causes and generate solutions
• Project Closure
• Coordinating post-project reviews
• Creating a formal Handover Plan / Control Plan to transition the ongoing ownership of project-related activities to appropriate business owners
• Creating post-project review plans
• Documenting any relevant case studies that can be used to support future bids
• Documenting follow-on actions and recommendations
• Identifying and documenting ongoing continuous improvement opportunities
• Identifying opportunities to transfer programme deliverables / best practices to other parts of the business in order to maximise return on programme investment
• Obtaining sign off from relevant stakeholders that the project deliverables meet the stated requirements
• Preparing lessons learnt report
• Change Management
• Developing and implementing effective communications plans to engage with stakeholders that are impacted by change or improvement initiatives

What are we looking for?

• Encouraging Innovation and Managing Change: The Project Manager will challenge existing processes, introducing new approaches to improve quality enhancing efficiency and effectiveness, actively encouraging and supporting creativity in the project team members.
• Working Together: The Project Manager will be able to develop effective relationships with key stakeholders through consultation, advice, facilitation of discussion and resolution of conflict. Working and consulting with internal stakeholders contacts in a constructive and helpful way, offering advice, as appropriate to achieve bid milestones and deliverables. This will involve developing relationships with stakeholders to establish trust, credibility and respect.
• Achieving and Improving: The Project Manager will be able to effectively deploy project management tools and techniques including Prince2 and using the relevant tools available such as Project Cost Tracker and Primavera, to schedule, plan, track and correct project performance. The Project Manager will understand how to obtain and ensure quality results to achieve total customer satisfaction, where appropriate, challenging accepted practices which may inhibit the quality and timeliness of Deliverables and implement acceptable solutions which meet Client and internal stakeholder needs. Learning from experience and regularly monitoring project outcomes and acting on feedback.
• Communicating Effectively: The Project Manager will be able to communicate effectively in writing and orally having the ability to translate complex information including Client requirements to provide information in a way that is accessible and easily understood. The Project Manager may need to influence and persuade stakeholders/customers to accept a particular way forward, sometimes dealing with resistance to the proposals.
• Leading and Managing Others: The Project Manager will be able to direct, manage and motivate the project team, setting achievable objectives and taking responsibility for making decisions and for providing constructive feedback. The Project Manager will have the ability to plan and manage the deployment of resources to meet the project programme. The Project Manager will understand and know how to share information effectively and delegate where appropriate.