Senior Project Manager - Rail in North West, United Kingdom
Senior Project Manager - Rail TRU01
Location: North West
What is the purpose of this role?
To build, manage and develop the Ancillary Civils scope across Project W4 within the TRU West Alliance, supporting all contracts and projects on TRU West, and to achieve targets and project objectives in respect of team development and staff utilisation.
What will this role involve?
- To promote safe working practices, ensure full implementation & compliance with safety responsibility statement below.
- To deliver the Amey Essentials.
- Aligning the project(s) with the overall Amey business strategy and processes.
- Creating Project / Programme Brief, Project Initiation Document (PID), Communication Plan and Project Quality Plan
- Accountable for submitting and meeting accurate forecasts for cost and turnover achieving forecast margins for allocated contracts.
- Effectively lead & line manage the project team(s), including training, development and performance management.
- Ensure that allocated contracts are effectively planned, and progress reviewed on a weekly basis.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Identifying and monitoring project risks (threats and opportunities), planning and implementing mitigations to them, and responding to other issues that affect the project.
- Maintaining risk, issues and decisions logs and all other required project documentation
- Managing stakeholders and ensuring project solutions meet their needs where possible.
- Promoting continuous improvement of the project(s).
- Delivering the project(s) in line with the Common Safety Method (CSM) and Technical Specification of Interoperability (TSI) standards.
- Managing requests for change
- Managing, coaching and motivating members of the project
- Preparing end stage reports
- Taking appropriate action in order to ensure that the project / programme is able to deliver to the required quality, on time and to budget
- Ensuring that Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques are applied to analyse data, identify root causes and generate solutions
- Coordinating and/or supporting post-project reviews
- Creating a formal Handover Plan / Control Plan to transition the ongoing ownership of project-related activities to appropriate business owners
- 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
- Developing and implementing effective communications plans to engage with stakeholders that are impacted by change or improvement initiatives.
What are we looking for?
Essential Skills, Qualifications and Training:
- Min HNC / HND in Engineering (or a similar approved qualification)
- Acceptance of Sponsorship
- Industry Common Induction
- OLEC 1
- Standard 019 Briefing
- Personal Track Safety
- D&A Screening
- SMSTS/IOSH Managing Safely
- Temporary Works Awareness
- The ability to manage and lead a team in the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary projects
- Strong interpersonal skills to influence and manage all stakeholders
- Understanding of Railway planning systems
- Environmental Awareness, including sustainability
- Railway access & Programme (P6) Awareness/Appreciation
- Quality Standards Awareness
- Risk Management Awareness
- Managing risk and opportunities
Desirable Skills, Qualifications and Training:
- NEBOSH Certificate
- Project Management Methodology Qualification
- Waste Management Awareness
- Scaffold Awareness
- Commercial, Estimating, Contract and Procurement Training
- CDM (2015) Regulations Training
- Presentation skills, collaborative working
- Lean construction and general methods/awareness
- Working at Height training
Why Amey?
We’re all originals here and our individuality is an asset. We have unique backgrounds and personalities, which means we all bring different ideas to the table. But we do have one thing in common: we all take personal pride in our public service. With every drop of water and spark of electricity we supply, with every bolt we tighten and with every guiding golden nugget of advice, we better manage the services that we all use and rely on every day, ensuring every household in Britain benefits from our work.
Amey is one of the top five support services suppliers in the UK. We employ 16,000 people, have a turnover of £2.1bn and a strong forward order-book. Every household in Britain benefits from the work we do. We maintain the UK’s road and rail infrastructure, keep schools safe and clean, manage the UK’s defence estate, safely escort prisoners and keep prisons and courts secure. We also collect and process waste, as well as deliver utilities services. All of this is underpinned by our leading consulting capabilities which uses engineering design and data analytics to better manage the services we all use and rely on
As one of us, you can really be you because your individuality is an asset. You’re surrounded by a team of people who want you to grow and embrace new challenges. People who care about your job satisfaction as well as your wellbeing. There’ll be experiences as original as you are, in a career that can feel like many rolled into one. You’ll be stretched but always supported. Whether it’s working on the biggest bridge in the country, learning to get to grips with the latest technology, or just working with a great group of people every day, you’ll find what gets you out of bed in the morning at Amey.
Our rewards make us feel valued here at Amey. If you’re happy, you’ll think better. It’s a simple formula but one that puts your wellbeing as a top priority, that’s why we’ve worked hard to build a reward and benefits program that puts you first, including;
- Competitive salary
- Exceptional development and progression plan
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Minimum 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays
- Additional Leave Purchase Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Gym Membership
- Retail Discounts
- Amey Rewards Portal including healthcare, free GP service, dental, Travel insurance and Tastecard
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