Project Manager

MWH Treatment Limited; Winchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the water treatment sector is seeking a Project Manager based in Winchester. The role offers hybrid working and involves managing project delivery from inception to completion while ensuring customer satisfaction. Essential qualifications include a degree in construction or engineering and significant project management experience, ideally within the water industry. Candidates should demonstrate excellent communication and negotiation skills and a strong commitment to safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing multi-disciplinary design and construction projects, ideally in the water industry.
• Ability to manage and motivate teams to meet targets.
• Strategic, operational, technical, and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Promote safety and delivery quality standards.
• Manage client relationships and maintain the company's reputation.
• Ensure project delivery from tender to completion.

Skills

Project Management experience

Excellent oral and written communication

Negotiation and administration skills

Risk & Opportunity Management

Education

Degree in construction, commercial, or engineering

Project Management Qualification (PMQ)

Tools

Knowledge of Construction Contracts (NEC, IChemE)

Project Management tools

Job description

We are looking to strengthen our Delivery team with a Project Manager based at Otterbourne with hybrid working available.

You will report directly to the Senior Project Manager or Operations Manager and your role will be to manage the design, construction, commissioning and putting to work of contracts to ensure they are completed in the most efficient manner to the specification, within the time required and within the tender estimate without risk to the health and safety of all concerned while ensuring good customer satisfaction

Key responsibilities will include:

• Promote exceptional safety and delivery quality standards to direct and subcontracted work force.
• Ensuring that the BMS is implemented at all stages throughout the project delivery process, i.e from tender handover to final completion.
• Maintain good client relationships at all levels.
• Maintain the company’s reputation on a project by ensuring good relationships are maintained with joint venture partners and suppliers.
• Ensuring that sufficient trained personnel are available for the project and that they are aware of their individual responsibilities.
• Planning projects, including reviewing and approving the Project Execution Plan (PEP), and then monitoring and controlling the delivery of projects
• Ensuring that appropriately detailed construction plans and method statements are prepared, in place and approved prior to commencement of activities.
• Ensuring at contract completion that all records referred to in the PEP are complete and available.
• Ensuring that all site non-conformities are reported and approximate costs identified.
• Ensure all commercial aspects of the project are managed in a timely and proactive way giving accurate forecast and estimates.
  
• Have detailed working knowledge and experience of project management practices from scheme conception through to end user acceptance.
• Ensure your own continuous professional development by participating in external networking/conferences/ associations/groups, to stay current on industry changes and innovations.
• Undertake such other duties, training and/or hours of work as may be reasonably required and which are consistent with the general level of responsibility of this role
• In all internal and external contact, present a professional and positive image of the department and MWH Treatment as well as maintaining mutually constructive, positive and beneficial relationships.
• Understanding and implementing the quality, safety and environmental policies and targets
• Being aware of the need to satisfy customer requirements with the aim of enhancing the customers’ perception and satisfaction.
• Maintain an appropriate practical knowledge and appreciation of all technical disciplines associated with delivering water and waste water design and build projects.

Essential

Project Management experience in managing multi-disciplinary design and construction projects, ideally within the water industry

Degree or equivalent qualification in a construction, commercial, or engineering related discipline.

Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent.

Excellent oral and written communicator with the ability to work in close partnership with clients, stakeholders, and end users.

Must be delivery driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.

Experience in project delivery.

Strategic, operational, technical and management skills.

Knowledge of Construction Contracts, ideally NEC and/or IChemE, with ability to negotiate and administer.

Ability to present at MWHT Governance Reviews in a leading capacity.

Risk & Opportunity Management experience.

Working knowledge of CDM and construction Health & Safety.

Desirable: Experience in water and waste water treatment plants

Chartered with an engineering, commercial, or construction institution.

NEC Project Manager Accreditation.

Technical Competencies: Advanced

• Contract Management
• Governance
• Budgeting and cost control
• Risk, Opportunities and issue management
• Project Planning (schedule)
• Digital Delivery
• Procurement (negotiations and management)
• Solutions development (pre- construction / design development)
• Client, stakeholder and conflict management
• Resource management
• Change management
• Quality management

Behavioural competencies: Advanced

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Client Focus
• Striving for Results
• Integrity, Trust and Respect
• Coaching and Providing Feedback
• Leadership