Project Manager - Highways & Infrastructure

4Recruitment Services; Cricklade; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment firm is seeking a Project Manager for highways and infrastructure projects in the Swindon area. The candidate will be responsible for managing complex project documentation, ensuring deadlines and milestones are met, and administering NEC3/NEC4 contracts. The ideal applicant must have strong project management skills, risk assessment abilities, and experience in handling transportation projects.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing highways and infrastructure projects.
• Expertise in contract administration, especially NEC3/NEC4.
• Strong ability to assess and mitigate project risks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage project documentation for multi-disciplinary teams.
• Assess and implement project change control processes.
• Manage project risks through appropriate interventions.
• Ensure milestones are achieved and deadlines are met.
• Administer NEC3/NEC4 contracts and provide technical advice.
• Handle procurement documentation and contract management.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Contract Management

Risk Management

Job description

Overview

We are currently looking for a Project Manager - Highways & Infrastructure. You will be working in the Swindon area.

Working hours: Monday - Friday

Pay rate: £53.66ph umbrella

Job Purpose

Working as part of the Project & Programme Delivery Team, this role has lead responsibility for undertaking the Project Manager role on key strategic and complex transport and highways projects, ensuring that each project delivers the predicted benefits on time and within budget, through established project management processes, generating exceptional value.

Main Duties

• Develop, prepare and manage project documentation for multi-disciplinary in-house and partner project teams, including the development of project briefs and business cases, project plans, forward planning strategic risk registers, issue logs and budget management tools.
• Ensure all project change control processes are initiated, agreed and implemented. Assess the financial operational and political impact of any changes to projects and propose solutions and mitigation.
• Dynamic management project risks via instigation of appropriate interventions and mitigations where achievement of project delivery is at risk.
• Ownership and accountability of the project programme to identify critical paths and resolve problems to ensure milestones are achieved.
• Identify, provide technical advice, manage and administer NEC3 / NEC4 contracts within the NEC suite of contracts to include Term Service, Professional Services and Engineering Construction.
• Prepare documentation for the procurement of goods, services and works using NEC3 / NEC4 Term Service, Professional Service and Engineering Construction Contracts.
• Procure contracts to include the advertising of contracts, management and coordination of the Gateway process, responding to tender clarifications, post tender analysis of submitted documentation and contract award / appointment following the sealing of contract.

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.

To discuss this vacancy, please apply to the job with your updated CV