Project Manager - Scheme Delivery Operations

Consortium; Manchester, Warrington, Penrith, Preston; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways is offering a Project Manager role in the North-West region to lead a portfolio of highway construction projects within a 5-year rolling capital programme. You will oversee external contractors and consultants, ensuring governance, quality assurance, health and safety, and technical compliance across the supply chain.

You will develop strong relationships with regional teams, manage budgets, and report on delivery performance, driving improvements while maintaining safety and

Qualifications

• Recognised qualification in an engineering discipline and/or relevant civil engineering project delivery experience.
• Proven portfolio and project management experience; related qualifications (MSP/APM/Prince2) desirable.
• Experience of NEC4 forms of contract.
• Good understanding of highways/bridges legislation, standards and construction practices.

Responsibilities

• Programme management, financial reporting and risk management against capital expenditure budgets.
• Oversee external contractors and consultants ensuring governance, QA, health and safety and technical compliance across the supply chain.
• Manage stakeholder communications and community interactions to maintain National Highways reputation.
• Identify improvements and champion portfolio management best practices across Operations.
• Identify risks and implement solutions across the portfolio.

Skills

Project management

Contract management

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

Project Manager - Scheme Delivery Operations

Project Manager - Scheme Delivery Operations

Location: England, UK

Job Type: Permanent

Highlighted points for this job

Project Manager role in North-West region

Manage highway construction projects and external contractors

Based in Manchester, Warrington, Penrith, or Preston

Requires recognised qualification in engineering or relevant experience

Starting salary at lower end of pay scale for external candidates

About the job.

National Highways is excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team in the North-West region. As a Project Manager, you will play a vital role in planning and managing the successful delivery of a portfolio of highway construction projects within our region's 5-year rolling capital programme.

You will oversee the performance of multiple external contractors and consultants, ensuring the highest standards of governance, quality assurance, health and safety, and technical compliance across the supply chain and National Highways. Your expertise will be key to achieving agreed project outcomes while adhering to mandatory and delegated responsibilities, driving excellence in every phase of the project lifecycle.

This role is based from our Manchester, Warrington, Penrith or Preston office.

• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Regional Management Team, Programme Delivery Managers, key stakeholders, suppliers and across National Highways teams. Ensure mutual understanding of the portfolio's strategic and delivery objectives, to review and report on delivery performance, to agree solutions that resolve complex issues and to prepare project business cases.
• Programme management, financial reporting and risk management against the capital expenditure budgets for all projects in scope, ensuring effective financial and contractual practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources.
• Ensure National Highways reputation is maintained throughout delivery of projects by delivering best practice customer and stakeholder communications Proactively manage interaction with communities, stakeholders, transport operators, road users and businesses.
• Proactively identify and drive opportunities for improvements and implement required changes in own area of responsibility: champion and share portfolio management best practices across Operations.
• Manage and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies and constraints associated with the portfolio, leading the development and implementation of solutions to overcome these.

About you.

• Recognised qualification in relevant engineering discipline and/or with relevant experience in the delivery of Civil Engineering projects and portfolios (preferably highways / bridges)
• Proven portfolio and project management experience (related qualifications (e.g. MSP, APM, Prince2) is desirable
• Evidence of contract management with specific experience of NEC 4 forms of contract
• Good understanding of relevant legislation, technical standards and needs, and construction practices associated with highways / bridges.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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