Senior Project Manager

Atkins Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design consultancy in Dublin seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead multi-disciplined design teams on various infrastructure projects. Ideal candidates will be chartered engineers with experience managing large projects and teams, possessing strong leadership and communication skills. The role involves ensuring project delivery within budget and timeline, and facilitating effective communication with clients and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing design teams in a design consultancy.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team effectively.
• Experience with NEC3 construction contract.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently or in a larger team.

Responsibilities

• Manage multi-disciplined design teams to deliver projects on time and budget.
• Set objectives and define tasks for the project team.
• Facilitate communication with clients and within the project team.
• Assemble and own the project delivery programme.
• Close out projects ensuring all documentation is archived.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Leadership qualities

Attention to detail

Team player

Flexibility

Education

Chartered Engineer/Architect or equivalent

Tools

BIM

CDE and 3D modelling tools

Programming and earned value techniques

Job description

Overview

We are seeking aSenior Project Manager to work in our dynamic infrastructure team in ourDublin Office. The successful candidate will work within the multidisciplined team and shall work on variety of building and site development projects across aviation, industrial, commercial, residential, healthcare and education sectors. The successful candidate should be chartered and have experience working in adesign consultancy leading multi-disciplined design teams.

Responsibilities

• Management of multi-disciplined design teams to the successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g., programme, budget, and quality.
• Identifying and agreeing project objectivities with the Project Director and developing a strategy for achieving these.
• Identifying, escalating, and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity.
• Setting objectives and defining tasks for the project team (including internal and external agreements), delegating authority and agreeing how risks will be shared (with PD) as necessary.
• Actively managing the project – both technically and financially, in accordance with corporate and business policies, directives, guidance and procedures. Whilst monitoring and reporting performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; taking, or advising the PD on the requirements for, any necessary mitigation actions to prevent targets being missed, controlling change and managing effective change control process.
• Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team; including providing regular feedback to all team members and ensuring staff have the necessary H&S training for discharging their design duties and defining line of communication and the responsibilities for co-ordination within the project.
• Facilitating communication, co-ordination, and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners (internal and external).
• With input from the Discipline Leads, agreeing commercial trading arrangements and communication plan for working with other teams, issuing Task Orders to all internal teams and purchase orders to external teams; agreeing resource levels, project personnel and milestones internally (with the project delivery team) and externally (with the Client and other project contributors) and establishing a ‘bottom up’ estimate of project costs.
• Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans; providing project reports on a regular basis to convey cost and schedule information (monthly Client report, in a timely manner, as required internally or externally).
• Protecting the commercial interest of AtkinsRéalis, including timely and accurate invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow (with the support of the finance community); comparing revenue with predicted costs and identifying risk allowances, margin and provisions – at project set-up and monthly thereafter, including Earned Value reporting.
• Closing out the project 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.

The Individual

• Chartered Engineer/Architect or equivalent with experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects.
• Experience in a design consultancy office managing design teams.
• Experience across a range of building construction projects.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written.
• A hard working and flexible individual, who is a team player, possesses great attention to detail, is reliable, proactive and shows initiative whilst able to keep cool under pressure and when working to often demanding deadlines.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities.
• Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3.
• Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs and Client & Stakeholder Management plans.
• Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.
• Self-motivated and able to work both independently and within a larger multi-discipline team.
• Familiar with BIM and understands the use of CDE and 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes and the associated Information attributes that can be assigned and managed within the Model.
• A high expectation of performance for themselves and other members of the team.
• Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.
• A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team.
• Ability to adapt to different cultures and working environments to build rapport with clients.

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