Project Management (PMO Lead)

Kier Construction; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Project Management PMO Lead to join their Natural Resources team. This role involves overseeing strategic planning and project governance for a significant framework with Southern Water. You'll be responsible for managing resources, building client relationships, and ensuring efficient project execution across a diverse portfolio of water and wastewater projects. If you're a senior specialist with a background in regulated utilities or infrastructure, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful projects while enjoying a flexible working environment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic planning and governance for water and wastewater projects.
• Build relationships with clients to ensure project needs are met.
• Manage resources and facilitate project planning and documentation.

Skills

Project Management

Strategic Planning

Governance

Client Relationship Management

Resource Allocation

NEC3/NEC4 Contractual Awareness

Education

Degree in relevant industry

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, 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 in order 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 also hold a degree relating to the industry.
• You're a senior specialist responsible for overseeing significant parts of the programme.
• Chartered Status in relevant professional body or appropriate professional qualification.
• Excellent NEC3/NEC4 contractual and commercial awareness.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable 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.

Rewards And Benefits

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