Senior Project Manager NOWOŚĆ

Opis stanowiska

As a senior project manager in Rail division, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of feasibility studies, design and related professional services to a range of UK rail clients including transport authorities, design and build (D&B) contractors and rolling stock manufacturers. You will operate within a team of 40 project management professionals, managing the delivery of projects by our multidiscipline technical teams.  Infrastructure projects will typically range from small renewals (£100k) through to large (£3m+) D&B schemes involving stations, bridges, access-for-all upgrades, track, signalling, telecoms, electrification and plant, traction power, overhead catenary and tunnel systems.  Rolling stock projects will typically involve either new fleet procurement or fleet life-extension.  Most of our projects will also include a systems engineering and assurance workstream.

We operate in a matrix structure, so you will have dual lines of reporting.  Your discipline line of reporting will be via our Head of Discipline for Project Management.  Each of your projects will have a Project Principal, within the client portfolio(s) to which you are assigned. As we progress through Network Rail’s Control Period 7, we are seeing an increasing proportion of our work being delivered via D&B contractors.  We are therefore looking for senior project managers with a strong understanding of project delivery in a D&B environment.

We play a role in many of the UK’s largest and most complex rail projects.  We offer a great environment in which you can develop your career as a project professional.  Senior project managers who deliver positive outcomes for our clients, our staff and the company, are able to progress to project principal roles (supervising the work of other project managers) or towards roles in our flagship projects in the UK, or elsewhere in the world.

Candidate Specification
Essential:

• Existing experience in project management
• Strong understanding of D&B environment by having:
  • Managed the delivery of professional services (including design) to D&B contractors; or
  • Managed the delivery of professional services (including design) by D&B contractors; or
  • worked in D&B contractor organisations
• Strong understanding and proven experience in the use of project controls (e.g. earned value analysis)
• Strong understanding and proven experience in managing change on projects (administering, negotiating and/or closing)
• Strong analytical and numerical skills including the use of Excel
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English language

Desirable:

• Chartered project professional (or approaching chartered status)
• Knowledge of rail environment (civil/structural, rail systems and/or rolling stock)
• Understanding of how design is performed on railway projects
• Knowledge of Network Rail processes for the delivery of ES1-5 studies/design projects
• Willingness to embrace ways of delivering projects more efficiently
• Experience in setting-up and/or administering NEC contracts
• Experience in agreeing final accounts for projects
• Experience in developing and updating project programmes using Primavera P6
• Experience in managing the technical or commercial aspects of bids/proposals
• Experience supervising early career project professionals