Contract Project Manager jobs in United Kingdom

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Rate: £65-£75 per hour umbrella

Location - Capenhurst

Job Purpose
To provide and enhance Urenco UK's project delivery capabilities across the capital portfolio. The successful candidate can create, implement, and guide junior members of the project management team in developing project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for medium to large sized projects of moderate or greater complexity. The Senior Project Manager will be assigned to one major, or a number of smaller, projects of considerable strategic significance to assume a direct delivery role. The position covers the full project lifecycle from project set up, initiation, through Implementation and closure, ensuring business benefits are realized and delivered.

A typical project will range from 5 to 20 direct reports (varying levels from blue collar to MSc, some PhD level educated)

• Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing strategies that successfully
• Technical background in engineering
• deliver project to Business objectives (safety, budget, cost, benefits)
• Ability to analyse project requirements and critical success factors and translate these into bespoke Delivery Strategies
• Experience of and be skilled in managing ambiguity and being confident to take accountability for delivering projects to the Business
• Experience of managing complex contractual relationships including the provision of free-issue materials, technology or IP, able to demonstrate a proven track record in managing suppliers to deliver within this context
• Extensive knowledge of the EPC contractor, major EPS and Construction supply markets and will have gained insights into their relative strengths and weaknesses and ability to leverage relationships with key members of supplier's leadership teams to Urenco's advantage
• The Senior Project Manager may provide subject matter expert consulting and advice across Urenco UK project portfolio and support to the wider Urenco business
• Actively promote a pro-active safety culture, and be a role model, throughout the project lifecycle and across the Capenhurst site and wider Group
• Advise, consult, and provide feedback in the development and evolvement of the Group's Project Delivery Strategy, aligned to deliver against UUK's objectives and strategy across its own capex portfolio
• Overall responsibility for the delivery of Projects to meet safety, scope, cost, schedule and Business benefits objectives Communicate strategy, objectives and benefits to business unit and group whilst implementing the organisational strategy to achieve maximum business benefit
• Demonstrable ability in building teams of highly performing professionals, communicating strategy and building a team accountable for the delivery of the project
• Foster and enhance owner relationships with subcontractors and vendors
• Leveraging experience from a number of industry sectors and continuously scan the market for best practice, analyzing developments and assessing how they can be exploited by Urenco to further value creation/delivery/capture/protection
• The role will ensure knowledge is retained and transferred inter-Urenco and undertake lessons learned reviews to promote continuous improvement in all project engineering practices

• Educated to Degree level in a relevant discipline
• MBA or equivalent
• Project Management Qualification / Accreditation such as APM or PMI
• Technical background in engineering