Project Manager - WATER UTILITIES

Pigment Consulting; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic consulting firm in the UK is seeking a Project Manager for a 6-month contract. The ideal candidate will have experience in the water utilities industry, ensuring effective project governance while leading a team to meet budget and quality objectives. Responsibilities include resource assignment, procurement negotiations, and change management. This role offers a hybrid working model and a competitive rate of £400 per day.

Qualifications

• Experience in an infrastructure programme and project delivery environment in the water utilities industry.
• Experience of delivering complex individual or groups of projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective project governance and assurance.
• Assign competent project team resources.
• Lead and motivate a team, setting objectives.
• Manage procurement and negotiations.
• Maintain compliance with risk information.
• Manage risk and change at project level.

Skills

Project governance

Team leadership

Negotiation

Risk management

Job description

Project Manager | 6-month contract | Inside IR35, £400 a day | Hybrid

Pigment Consulting is a bold, disruptive, and collaborative digitally-enabled change and transformation consultancy. Fuelled by an urge to challenge the norm, we bring together an unrivalled solution to the change and transformation challenges across the UK Government, Defence Industry, Transport, Utility and Digital, Data & Technology (DDaT) Sectors.

We are currently looking for a Project Manager with experience in construction within the water utilities industry to join our team. Our Project Management Consultant will be part of a team responsible for achieving the overall budget and quality objectives of the project / programme of works. They will also ensure that the project schedule is established and maintained within prescribed schedule and budget parameters.

Key responsibilities :

• Ensuring effective project governance and assurance is in place using Assurance functions as appropriate
• Assignment of competent project team resources
• Leading and motivating a team of professionals, setting objectives and goals
• Procurement including negotiations with supply community
• Correctly capturing and maintaining compliance with the risk information in Programme Insight Manager
• Management of Risk and Change at project level
• Seeking approval of Change at project level

Required skills :

• Experience in an infrastructure programme and project delivery environment in the water utilities industry
• Experience of delivering complex individual or groups of projects

If you are currently looking for a new position and have the relevant experience, please apply directly and we will be in touch!