Project Manager – Water Industry Civils

Headingley, Leeds
Interaction Recruitment

Are you a confident and effective people manager, with the ability to develop and maintain client relationships and engage with varying stakeholders?

We have an exciting position in our well established Sheffield office, for an experienced Project Manager to join our team working on Yorkshire Water Frameworks for minor civil, land and property.

Your Responsibilities:

We are looking for a Project Manager to work with our Client, Yorkshire Water, on a Fixed Term contract for 6 months, with the potential to become permanent.

Duties of the role include:

• Management of Yorkshire Water (client) related projects to requisite performance criteria, ensuring stringent KPIs are met in line with client expectations (quotation submissions, delivery timescales, programme adherence, completion handbacks etc)
  • Liaise with Client personnel and represent the company at Client meetings as appropriate. Maintain and develop client relationships on the basis of mutual trust and high standards of contract performance in line with the company CORE Values
  • Undertake pre-site scoping visits and joint site meetings with the client to capture works requirements and enable robust planning and execution of works
  • Liaise with the delivery team to ensure the work bank is planned and resourced in line with first principle allowances and programme is driven by required deliverables with key milestones identified
  • Liaise with design and commercial teams to review box plans, estimate submissions and final account details analysing trends and reporting on performance to the Contracts Manager to identify contractual progress of works against programme
  • Provide technical support, guidance and practical advice to delivery managers to ensure competent execution of required work bank deliverables from both a permanent work and temporary works perspective
  • Ensure robust programme management in the planning of works, capturing all required 3rd party access consents, possession/isolation submissions, traffic management requests etc where required to co-ordinate and facilitate the successful execution of works
  • Ensure the site teams are complying to requirements of site returns, commercial reporting, quality and safety etc to drive efficiencies and assist with timely submissions of EWNs/compensation events
  • Prepare and implement site specific management plans to ensure site activities comply with CML Health and Safety, Quality and Environmental Policies
  • Prepare and implement site documentation and contract plans to conform, as a minimum, to the Client s requirement and specification.
  • Lead and implement professional safety behaviour and culture throughout the business, promoting positive change in everyday activities
• Any other duties as may reasonably be required

Person Specification:

To be successful in the role you will be able to maintain and develop client relationships on the basis of mutual trust and high standards of project performance, promoting existing and new work opportunities.

The perfect candidate will have:

Previous experience in a regulatory environment, with elements of working on Yorkshire Water assets or within the water sector of benefit.

• Sound understanding and appreciation of Yorkshire Water management procedures
• Experience of setting up new functions and teams that covers process, systems and people
• Demonstratable client management and reporting experience
• Demonstratable commercial experience NEC 4 contract experience desirable
• Demonstratable Programme Management experience

Suitably qualified by experience

• Continued professional development courses as appropriate SMSTS – MAPM – NVQ 6/7 – NEBOSH – Temporary Works Co-Ordinator

The Package

• • Competitive Pay
  • A Company car
  • A collaborative and friendly working culture, focussed on investing in people
  • Up to 25 days holiday + Statutory Bank Holidays
  • Ad hoc Hybrid working, depending on business needs
  • Company Sick Pay
  • Annual professional subscription costs
  • Excellent training & development opportunities, provided by our award nominated in house Training team
  • Paid Volunteering days and Charity events
  • Annual Flu Jabs
  • Employee Assistance Programmes for advice and counselling
  • Access to a committed Mental Health First Aider team
  • Company Pension and Death in Service scheme of 2x annual salary
  • A generous Employee Referral scheme of £1000 per successful hire