Project Manager – Earthing

LSTC Group; Caerphilly; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

LSTC Group in Wales seeks a Project Manager – Earthing to lead multidisciplinary teams and deliver development and design projects profitably. You will own contractual, financial and programme performance, manage project portfolios, and liaise with senior leadership.

The role requires strong numeracy and excellent communication, with office-based work and travel to meetings and sites. Responsibilities include overseeing the portfolio, monitoring timelines, preparing project programmes and

Qualifications

• Qualifications and experience: engineering or project management related degree, or equivalent.
• Strong IT skills and numeracy are essential.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end portfolio of projects within the Earthing business unit to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery.
• Monitor timelines, milestones, risks, and resource constraints across the department.
• Prepare and manage project programmes and invoicing across the portfolio.
• Provide guidance to project delivery teams and coordinate reviews with senior stakeholders.

Skills

Strong IT skills

Excellent communication

Problem solving

Numerate

Interpersonal influence

Education

Engineering or project management related degree

Job description

As Project Manager – Earthing you will lead multidisciplinary project teams in profitably delivering development and design projects. You will have responsibility for the contractual, financial and programme performance of these projects.

This will involve overseeing the delivery and governance of the Earthing department’s project portfolio:

• Managing multiple projects and programmes to support the Earthing business unit in delivering their workbook.
• Monitoring project timelines, milestones, cross-programme risks, changes and resource constraints across the department.
• Tracking overall portfolio health and managing the invoicing process.

You will act as the primary point of contact for departmental project updates and financial queries and facilitate regular project review meetings with project leads, the Head of Department and Director of Operations.

The work will be office based with travel for meetings, workshops, and site visits (as required).

Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

Project Management

• Oversee versee the end-to-end portfolio of projects within the business unit, ensuring adherence to project management frameworks and standards.
• Monitor project timelines, milestones, risks, and resource constraints across the department.
• Prepare and manage the Project Programme(s)
• Identify cross-project dependencies and mitigate potential conflicts or bottlenecks.
• Provide guidance to individual project delivery teams to ensure alignment with business unit objectives.
• Lead and coordinate a project team to deliver the scope of work on time and to budget (with profitable outcomes).
• Manage the contract and variations and invoicing process

Portfolio Reporting

• Act as the primary point of contact for departmental portfolio updates and financial queries.
• Facilitate regular portfolio review meetings with project leads and Head of Department and Director of Operations.
• Consolidate project data to produce comprehensive weekly and monthly portfolio performance reports for Head of Department and Director of Operations.
• Develop and maintain dashboards tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), project health, and milestones.

Financial Control & Invoicing Management

• Manage and reconcile monthly invoicing status reports across the entire project portfolio.
• Track project spend against agreed budgets, identifying variances and forecasting future financial requirements.
• Coordinate with the accounts department and clients to ensure timely invoice processing and resolution of invoicing discrepancies.

Qualifications

Qualifications and experience:

• A suitable engineering or project management related qualification, degree or equivalent.

Key Attributes

• Strong IT Skills.
• Excellent communication skills both within peer group and with external clients or interested parties.
• Intuitive and able to solve problems whilst applying reason, logic and pragmatism.
• Able to contribute to the ideas of others to help deliver technical schemes that are safe, buildable and cost-effective.
• Effective interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Highly numerate.