Project Manager - Water Infrastructure

AtkinsRéalis; Saffron Walden; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking talented Project Managers to join their Infrastructure team in the UK. The role involves managing water infrastructure projects from inception to completion, ensuring client relations are maintained and project performance is monitored. Ideal candidates will have an engineering background and project delivery experience, preferably in the water industry. This position offers agile working arrangements and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies to work

Programs supporting communities and underrepresented groups

Commitment to Engineering Net-Zero

A focus on innovation and data-driven approaches

Qualifications

• Experience in a Project Management position.
• Experience in the water industry preferable but not essential.
• Experience working with Contractor organisations ideally in a Design & Build environment.

Responsibilities

• Delivery of project management and contract administration through the project life cycle.
• Manage the day-to-day client relationship.
• Monitor and report project performance against targets.

Skills

Project delivery experience

Excellent organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Proactive and flexible working attitude

Education

Engineering background

Job description

The AtkinsRéalis Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and combines the best in project management and design management to provide a full suite of services to clients in the public and private sectors. We have several exciting vacancies for talented Project Managers to join our teams across the UK in our expanding Water Infrastructure market. These roles offer excellent opportunities for career driven individuals who want to take the next step in their career and be responsible for design projects from inception through to completion. These roles offer the chance to develop your career and expand your experiences across a wide range of challenging and exciting projects in the water market. Positions are likely to combine agile working from one of our hub offices, with some time spent at client offices. will be a practicing Project Manager with project delivery experience, ideally within a consultancy environment. Working with the support of the PDP team, you will be responsible for delivering schemes to budget and programme and be the first point of contact with clients.

Your Purpose:

• Delivery of project management and contract administration through the project life cycle.
• Ensure a common understanding of requirements and scope, programme, costs, constraints, risk and interfaces across the team.
• Management of the day-to-day client relationship.
• Deliver governance arrangements for projects within business policies and procedures to ensure a robust outcome. Manage the project within client and AtkinsRéalis agreed budgets.
• Negotiate and administer change control in accordance with the contract. Management of risks through the project life cycle.
• Clear and accurate monitoring and reporting of project performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; both internally and externally.
• As a project leader, build, motivate, guide and develop project teams.
• Cognisant delivery of projects and tasks in accordance with the AtkinsRéalis Values; Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, Innovation and Excellence.

Qualifications:

• An Engineering background, with design management, project management and contract administration experience.
• Experience in a Project Management position.
• Experience of working in the water industry is preferable but not essential.
• Experience of working with Contractor organisations, ideally in a Design & Build environment. Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 or 4.
• Experience of managing design projects or assisting in the management of projects from inception to completion.
• Experience of working closely with multi-disciplinary design teams.
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate a proactive and flexible working attitude, is adaptable and responds positively in response to challenges.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once, they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We're proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks., At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.