Senior Project Manager

Advance TRS; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee major infrastructure projects within a hybrid work model. You will manage all phases of projects from procurement to delivery, ensuring stakeholder engagement and effective communication. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in project management, experience with NEC contracts, and be chartered or incorporated. This role offers competitive compensation and significant responsibility.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in managing major infrastructure projects.
• Experience in project management across various phases.
• Strong skills in stakeholder management and communication.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects through procurement, governance, and contract phases.
• Support project technical team to meet targets.
• Manage risks related to contract and commercial issues.
• Define project scope and objectives for the project team.
• Monitor performance against programme and financial targets.
• Establish communication flow between all stakeholders.
• Prepare project delivery programme and reporting.
• Manage invoicing and cash flow for the project.
• Close-out project while ensuring documentation is archived.

Skills

Stakeholder management skills

Project management

Communication

Risk management

Education

Chartered/Incorporated

Tools

NEC forms of contract

Job description

Job Role: Senior Project Manager / Project Manager

Location: Thames Water (Hybrid)

Our client is a multidisciplinary consultancy who are looking to bring on board a Senior Project Manager and Project Manager to join them on the Thames Water framework.

You will need to have strong stakeholder management skills and a proven track record of managing major infrastructure projects.

Key responsibilities will include driving the projects through procurement, de-risking, governance, and contract award phases over the next year.

About the Role:

• Project / programme management of delivery across project lifecycles: feasibility studies, front-end to detailed design (incl. Design and Build), and construction support.
• Supporting the project technical team in the successful delivery of the project to meet the agreed targets, e.g. programme, budget and quality.
• Identifying, escalating, and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual / commercial risk to our client
• Setting of project scope, objectives, and defining tasks for the project team (including Inter Trading Task Orders).
• Project management of the delivery – both technically and financially, in accordance with our clients corporate and business operation governance. Monitoring and reporting performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; effective mitigation actions and managing change control process.
• Stakeholder’s management and clear communication, co-ordination and information flow between the Client or Contractor Partner, including any subcontractors, and within the design project team (internal and external).
• Preparing the project delivery programme and delivery plans; providing project reporting on a regular basis to convey cost and schedule information (monthly Board report, in a timely manner, as required internally or externally).
• Timely invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow; managing project revenue against forecast and identifying risk allowances, margin and provisions – at project set-up and monthly thereafter, including Earned Value reporting.
• Manage the project close-out on completion, archiving project documentation, updating Market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.

About you:

• Proven track record in Project management
• Worked under NEC forms of contract
• Chartered/Incorporated
• Full driving licence

To discuss this role in more detail please call me on 07534579078 for a confidential discussion or email your enquiry and CV to [e-mail]