We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to work for one of our trusted partners and successfully deliver complex projects on the Thames Water Framework.
Specific responsibilities include management of; health and safety, design, delivery, customer relations, quality, environmental, programme and the cost/value during both pre-production (ECI phase) and production.
You will monitor the progress of offsite and onsite operations against deadlines and budget limitations, create a positive team culture and environment on your projects to support improved wellbeing and performance.
Our client is a leading UK building, infrastructure, engineering and fit out company with extensive experience working across a range of sectors including healthcare, education, highways, infrastructure, environment and justice.
Responsibilities:
- Safety, Health and Wellbeing: Provide inspirational leadership to deliver Thames Water and our "Zero Incidents, Zero Harm, Zero Compromise" goals.
- Project Management: Understand and put in place the basic requirements to reliably achieve expected project delivery programme, cost and quality performance in a modern manufacturing environment. Effectively and proactively manage change and risk.
- Productivity: Work with others to help achieve a step change in productivity which will include implementing robust quality management to achieve "right first time".
- Customer Focus: Establish and maintaining trusting and effective relationships with our immediate customer, Thames Water Operations supplying excellent service throughout project delivery.
- Culture: Fully embrace the Company's and Thames Water's cultural vision and consistently champion collaborative behaviours and our other core values.
- Digital Engineering: Work with our designer (Arcadis) and the supply chain to optimise the benefits of using digital tools and expertise to integrate our offsite and onsite delivery approach
- Effective team management: Manage, support and mentor members of the project team in their personal development and identify competency gaps and training/mentoring requirements.
- Design Collaboration: Strong collaborative approach to integrate our own and supply chain expertise with our designers (Arcadis) expertise to maximise the opportunities for offsite manufacturing.
- Supply Chain: Fully integrate and engage with the supply chain to assess and develop their capabilities so that they positively contribute to our delivery capability and capacity.
- Develop Sustainable Solutions: Display a sound knowledge?of sustainable construction solutions and manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development.
Supporting our Production Line approach:
- Work closely with our teams and supply chain partners to enhance their production line maturity.
- Embrace and implement production line approach on site including programme and logistics.
- Ensure the project/package teams challenge production line operations, achieving progress against plans and escalating and promptly resolving issues.
- Developing and managing production controls, driving continuous improvement.
- Ensure that management reporting is accurate and prompt.
- Driving continuous improvement of data analysis and reporting.
Line Management Responsibilities:
- Works as part of the Production Delivery Team.
- Reports to the Production or Construction Manager.
- Direct reports include: Agents, Engineers, Supervisors.
- Also has operational responsibility for the Offsite Manufacturing, Commercial, Mechanical, Electrical, Commissioning, Planning, Customer Service resources allocated to the project/package.
Requirements:
- Must have experience within the water sector (WTW, WWTW, STW)
- Excellent team leader with great people management skills and strong analytical, problem-solving and organisational capabilities.
- Able to lead and inspire a diverse team.
- Contract administration experience desirable.
- Has excellent communication and customer service skills. Has an appreciation of MMC, Lean Construction, Agile Programme Management, Production Thinking and other techniques that assure programme, cost and quality performance.
- Programme focused with an ability to plan and organise resources to deliver on time and in full.
- Recognises the many benefits of maintaining exemplary site organisation and tidiness.
- Commercially astute - lead other team members to produce accurate time and cost forecasts and reports.
- BIM/digital experience desirable.
- IT literacy essential.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with a range of people.
Qualifications:
- Minimum HNC qualified in a manufacturing/construction subject desirable.
- Professional Project Management qualification is desirable.
- CSCS black card
- SMSTS safety qualification
- EUSR National Water Hygiene
- Thames Water passport (can be arranged upon start)
- DBS Check (can be obtained if not already in place)
- BPSS Security Clearance (can be obtained if not already in place)
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