Project Manager

J Murphy & Sons; Leeds; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Murphy in Leeds is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a portfolio of rail enhancement projects, ensuring safe delivery to time and budget while meeting contract requirements.

You will organise teams, manage risks, liaise with clients and stakeholders, and uphold CDM regulations, with a focus on bridges and structures and a drive for innovative delivery solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-profile railway enhancement projects, focusing on bridges and structures.
• Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. PTS).
• Experience in project and construction management of an engineering project, integrating multi-disciplinary workstreams from multiple contractors.
• Client and stakeholder management and management of a project team.
• Awareness of project controls to review project status.
• Commercial awareness and experience of planning programming.
• Professionally qualified or working towards.
• Driven forward-thinker who flourishes on innovative delivery solutions.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership for delivery of the project, completed safely, on time and within budget.
• Plan, manage and deliver works in a safe, controlled and sustainable manner.
• Create and review risk assessments regularly.
• Discharge Principal Contractor responsibilities under CDM Regulations.
• Organise the project team to deliver contracted scope.
• Lead and guide the project team and support professional development.
• Chair regular project meetings and close out actions.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Safety management

Budget planning

Risk assessment

Team leadership

Commercial awareness

Education

HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5

Degree

Job description

Murphyis a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutionsto infrastructure sectors includingtransportation;natural resources; energy and water.Headquartered in London, Murphy hasa number of related businesses –Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering;Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel,tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities. Murphy employs around4,000engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’

- directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.Visit www.murphygroup.comor follow us onLinkedIn,Facebook, InstagramandX: #MoretoMurphy

The aim of the TRU East Alliance is to transform the East of Leeds route allowing people to travel faster, more reliably and in greater comfort between the North’s great cities. Providing passengers with more choice, more seats, and better facilities on a safer, cleaner, more environmentally friendly railway.

You will be responsible to lead and be accountable for a project (or aspect of a larger project) or portfolio of small projects, ensuring that the scope of works are delivered in a safe manner, on time, to the required quality standards, meeting the acceptance criteria and achieving the expected financial outcomes.

What you will be doing

• - To be fully ownershipfor the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
• - Ensure works are planned, managed and delivered in a safe, controlled and environmentally sustainable manner.
• - Ensure risk assessments are created, in place and reviewed regularly.
• - Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations.
• - Organise the project team to deliver the contracted scope of works.
• - Manage the project team, providing guidance and direction and assist their professional development.
• - Chair regular project team meetings, ensuring actions are recorded and closed out
• - Ensure the project requirements are identified, understood and delivered and key issues are resolved and controlled.
• - Referany significant issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
• - Manage the “fit to start” process to ensure that we mobilise in a controlled and timely manner to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope.
• - Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive and formal handover from theteam to the delivery team.
• - Where relevant, arrange for mobilisation and demobilisation of projects assistedby PSC
• - Develop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external).
• - Ensure the requirements of the contract are compliedto by the project team and administered and discharged appropriately.
• - Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure and concur the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
• - Ensure detailed records and allocation sheets are maintained for all aspects of the project.
• - Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme.
• - Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
• - Leadingthe review of the project CRF on a monthly basis.
• - Ensuring the project performance is reported in a transparent and accurate manner
• - Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
• - Assist the procurement of suppliers and sub-contractors.

Who we are looking for

• - Experience in high profile, politically delicaterailway enhancement projects with a focus on bridges and structures
• - Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g. PTS).
• - Experience in the project and construction management of an engineering project, integrating multi-disciplinary workstreams from multiple contractors.
• - Client and stakeholder management and management of a project team
• - Awareness of the use and interpretation of project controls to review the status of a project.
• - Commercial awareness and experience of planning programming
• - HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree).
• - Professionally qualified or working towards.
• - Driven forward-thinker who flourishes on finding innovative solutions to delivery challenges