Project Management (PMO Lead)

Kier Group; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Management PMO Lead to join their dynamic Natural Resources team. This role offers the chance to engage in strategic planning and project governance for a significant 7-year framework with a leading water utility. You'll be instrumental in overseeing a diverse portfolio of non-infrastructure, water, and wastewater projects, ensuring efficient execution and resource management. With the flexibility of agile working, this position is perfect for those who thrive in a collaborative environment and are passionate about making a difference in the infrastructure sector. Join a company that values potential and encourages diverse skills!

Qualifications

• Experience in project management within regulated utilities or infrastructure.
• Chartered Status in a relevant professional body.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic planning and project governance for water projects.
• Create efficiencies between projects through a centralized management hub.

Skills

Project Governance

Strategic Planning

Resource Management

NEC3/NEC4 Contractual Knowledge

Stakeholder Management

Education

Degree in a related field

Chartered Status or Professional Qualification

Job description

We're looking for a Project Management PMO Lead to join our Natural Resources team, within a commutable distance to Falmer. In this role, you'll have civils and capital projects experience and will provide strategic planning, project governance, and support to the design and build activity of our new 7-year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location: Agile working from home and the Falmer office, East Sussex

Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part-time hours may be available if desired, just let us know

Responsibilities

As a Project Management PMO Lead, you'll provide strategic planning, project governance, and support to the design and build activity across the Southern Water portfolio of non-infrastructure, water, and wastewater projects.

Your Day To Day Will Include

• Building and maintaining excellent working relationships with the client to ensure their needs are met.
• Creating and operating a centralised and coordinated management hub for all the projects, with the aim to create efficiencies between projects.
• Seeking to standardise the execution of projects to maintain productivity.
• Managing and allocating resources across projects based on priorities, schedules, budgets, and more.
• Facilitating project planning, analysing financial information, modifying processes, and ensuring proper documentation for the projects being overseen.

What are we looking for?

This Project Management PMO Lead role is great for you if:

• You have similar experience as a planner within regulated utilities, infrastructure, or the built environment sector, and hold a degree related to the industry.
• You're a senior specialist responsible for overseeing significant parts of the programme.
• Chartered Status in a relevant professional body or an appropriate professional qualification.
• Excellent NEC3/NEC4 contractual and commercial awareness.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities, you can see more information about our water business here.

There's never been a better time to get involved. Register your interest today and take the first step toward a rewarding career with us!

Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information about benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives, and our people have made a significant impact on how we work by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

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