Project Manager

National Highways; Bedford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways in Bedford is recruiting a Project Manager to lead the delivery of a portfolio of civil engineering projects within the East region's 5-year rolling capital programme. You will coordinate across the supply chain, oversee external contractors and consultants, and ensure governance, quality, health and safety standards are met.

Based from the Bedford office, you will manage programme delivery, financial reporting, and risk, while driving continuous improvement and effective

Qualifications

• Recognised qualification in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent.
• Proven portfolio and project management experience, with NEC 4 contract experience desirable.
• Strong governance, legislation and technical standards understanding.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Programme management, financial reporting and risk management against capital expenditure budgets.
• Oversee performance of external contractors and consultants to ensure quality and safety standards.
• Maintain best practices in governance, customer and stakeholder communications.
• Identify improvements and drive portfolio management best practices across operations.
• Identify, manage and mitigate risks, issues, dependencies and constraints.

Skills

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Governance

Education

Civil Engineering degree

APM/Prince2/MSP desirable

Job description

National Highways is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team in the East region. As a Project Manager, you will play a vital role in planning and managing the successful delivery of a portfolio of projects within our region's 5-year rolling capital programme.

You will oversee the performance of multiple external contractors and consultants, ensuring the highest standards of governance, quality assurance, health and safety, and technical compliance across the supply chain and National Highways. Your expertise will be key to achieving agreed project outcomes while adhering to mandatory and delegated responsibilities, driving excellence in every phase of the project lifecycle.

This role is based from our Bedford office.

• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Regional Management Team, Programme Delivery Managers, key stakeholders, suppliers and across National Highways teams. Ensure mutual understanding of the portfolio's strategic and delivery objectives, to review and report on delivery performance, to agree solutions that resolve complex issues and to prepare project business cases.
• Programme management, financial reporting and risk management against the capital expenditure budgets for all projects in scope, ensuring effective financial and contractual practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources.
• Ensure National Highways reputation is maintained throughout delivery of projects by delivering best practice customer and stakeholder communications Proactively manage interaction with communities, stakeholders, transport operators, road users and businesses.
• Proactively identify and drive opportunities for improvements and implement required changes in own area of responsibility: champion and share portfolio management best practices across Operations.
• Manage and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies and constraints associated with the portfolio, leading the development and implementation of solutions to overcome these.

About you.

• Recognised qualification in relevant engineering discipline and/or with relevant experience in the delivery of Civil Engineering projects and portfolios
• Proven portfolio and project management experience (related qualifications (e.g. MSP, APM, Prince2) is desirable
• Evidence of contract management with specific experience of NEC 4 forms of contract
• Good understanding of relevant legislation, technical standards and needs, construction practices in Construction
• Excellent stakeholder management

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.