Senior Project Manager - Rail & Civils

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager the Welsh region of a leading rail infrastructure contractor working on a portfolio of rail and civil engineering projects including both framework / contract agreements and tendered capital delivery projects.

Business Unit

A busy and fast paced business unit involved in a range of civil engineering works in a variety of sectors to include rail (bridges, embankments, stations, platforms, tunnels etc.), Environment Agency, Local Authority etc. The business unit are involved in multi–disciplinary civils projects across the Wales region, whether one off tendered projects or projects within our long term framework / contract agreements with key clients.

Existing contracts include CP6 infrastructure projects, minor works and Environment Agency frameworks with works typically including bridge re–construction/replacement, upgrades and refurbishments, station work (platforms, access for all etc.), structures including bridges, tunnels and footbridges.

The Role

As Senior Project Manager you will be directly responsible for the daily management of various rail and civil engineering projects within our portfolio work in the region. You will be responsible for leading successful contract delivery, by ensuring that the site team are fully appraised of the contract parameters and have the capability and resources necessary to achieve contract objectives.

As Senior Project Manager you will be directly responsible leading the rail / civils teams and projects across the Wales region.

The Senior Project Manager has single point responsibility and accountability for successful execution of a project in terms of quality of work, maintenance of schedule, budget and profit margins, and Client satisfaction from commencement to close–out.

Duties and responsibilities including but not limited to:

Monitor expenditure and such items as work carried out against an estimate originally prepared in order to ensure the work is within the contract or may form a separate claim constantly liaising with the Commercial Dept & Regional Manager on such subjects.

The monitoring and control of project performance against budget, schedule, quality and safety requirements using appropriate control tools and reporting of same to Management Team and Client.

The identification of changes in the scope of work and ensuring that change orders are current and adequate. Prepare early warning and change instruction documentation.

Check the documents in use are current, readily available to those requiring them and stored securely.

Assess the standard of all proposed installation work associated within the project, undertaking inspections and preparing full reports, where required and submitting these to the Senior Contracts Manager or including the contents within an appropriate programme of works.

Liaise with stakeholders, commercial & planning teams.

Requirements

To excel in this role, you will have previous experience as a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager in a rail and civil engineering environment.

• Degree / HNC or HND in relevant subject area (or equivalent compensating experience in a Senior management role)
• Experience as a Senior Project Manager or equivalent senior management level role in a rail contracting / project environment.
• Experience in rail (desirable) working on civil engineering projects.

Requirements

To excel in this role, you will have previous experience as a Project Manager in a rail and civil engineering environment.

• Degree / HNC or HND in civil engineering (or equivalent compensating experience in a technical engineering role)
• PTS / SMSTS
• Experience as a Project Manager in a rail contracting environment.
• Experience in rail working on civil engineering associated projects