Project Manager

Kier Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm in Manchester is seeking a Project Manager to oversee project delivery in the rail sector. Key responsibilities include managing project budgets, schedules, and risks while ensuring high standards and customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate will have a degree in civil engineering and relevant project management experience in rail construction. This role offers competitive benefits, including a matched pension scheme and annual holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Competitive annual holiday entitlement

Matched pension scheme

Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans

Qualifications

• Relevant project management experience in the rail construction industry required.
• Full driving licence is imperative to visit various sites and offices.

Responsibilities

• Manage project delivery to high standards, including budgeting and scheduling.
• Identify and manage project risks with effective mitigation measures.
• Control implementation of designated projects from inception to completion.
• Monitor project financial performance and administration.
• Coordinate operatives, subcontractors, and suppliers efficiently.

Skills

Project management in rail construction

Commercial awareness

Contractual awareness

Education

Degree-level qualification in civil engineering

Job description

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our team based in Salford. Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy leave, a fantastic, matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Location: Salford

Hours: 42 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

What will you be responsible for?

As Project Manager you'll be working within the Project Management team, supporting the design and delivery of projects, managing projects from the design stage through delivery to handback, overseeing both internal and external teams to ensure high standards of service are provided and maintained throughout.

• Managing the delivery of projects to high standards by budgeting and programming, managing all phases of the project, from contract award to close out, to meet all contractual requirements, meeting company objectives post-contract, with an input into pre‑contract requirements, emphasising customer care and business excellence, delivering projects safely and on time, to budget and achieving the highest levels of customer satisfaction.
• Identifying project risks and managing through effective mitigation measures, dealing with project commercial matters delivering works within the allocated budgets, reporting on commercial and project progress through the CVR, MBR and QBR process.
• Controlling the implementation of designated projects, maintaining the project plan from inception to completion.
• Monitoring and communicating project financial performance and administration for all assigned projects.
• Overseeing the coordination of operatives, subcontractors and suppliers in a planned and controlled manner, ensuring efficiency and minimising costs, developing and implementing the site business plan.

What are we looking for?

• You have a degree‑level qualification in civil engineering, are an Associate or member of an environmental institute.
• Hold relevant project management experience in the rail construction industry.
• It is imperative you can bring commercial and contractual awareness with a full driving licence to visit various sites and offices.

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.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier.