Programme Manager

Location – Work from Home/Remote

- Occasional visits to London/Milton Keynes office

- Requires quarterly travel to Toronto, Canada

Salary – £70,000 - £75,000 per annum

My client is currently recruiting for a Programme Manager to join their team on works and projects involving Metrolinx.

Metrolinx is a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario that manages and integrates road and public transport in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

About the role:

To manage the Project Specific Output Specifications (PSOS) as part of the Planning and Development stage of the project. Essentially, my client is working with a leading design consultancy to ensure their designs are procurable, unambiguous and meet the client’s requirements. A big part of this is managing the process of coordinating a multidisciplinary design team to compile the PSOS requirements.

The successful Programme Manager will be responsible for:

- Designing, implementing and managing processes to efficiently prepare the PSOS Schedule, Facilities Maintenance Operations Specification (FMOS) Schedule, plus the Defined Terms, Acronyms and Reference Documents Schedule.

- This includes organizing and coordinating the PSOS & FMOS team, the multidisciplinary design team, and the requirements management team with its use of Doors Next Generation (DNG) through each editorial draft leading to RFP issuance.

- Working in coordination with the TA Project Management team, responsible for preparing, managing and implementing processes to deliver quality control, including interface management, cross-Schedule coordination, interdisciplinary review processes, document control, formatting, and submission.

- Responsible for tool development to improve efficiency across PSOS development process, ensuring the team are utilizing and developing multiple tracking and reporting tools and various formatting macros.

- Working with a multidisciplinary design team plus leading CPCS’s interface with the Contracting Authority’s (CA’s) Project Delivery Team, Commercial Team and Legal Team.

My client requires the Programme Manager to have:

- Client-side and main-contractor experience (desirable)

- Relevant sector experience (Facilities maintenance, Rail, Civils, Construction, Highways, Metro etc.)

- Experience in design and design approval

If this is of interest, please apply now and we will be in contact to discuss further.

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