Senior PM / PM – Thames Water framework in Reading

Job Role: Senior Project Manager / Project Manager

Salary / Rate: £450 – £600 / day

Location: Thames Water

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:

• Relevant Engineering degree
• Proven track record in Project management
• UK Water project delivery experience
• Worked under NEC forms of contract
• Chartered/Incorporated
• Full driving licence

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please reach out to Charlie Knight @ Advance TRS.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.