Project Manager - Rail Depots

Are you an experienced Project Manager looking to lead the successful delivery of critical rail infrastructure projects?

At Bovis, our Works Delivery teams are responsible for delivering a diverse portfolio of renewals, inspection and maintenance projects that keep the London Underground running safely and efficiently. As a Project Manager, you'll play a key role in leading multidisciplinary teams, driving project performance, and ensuring the safe, compliant and cost-effective delivery.

As a Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in overseeing and managing infrastructure projects, with a specific emphasis on Network Rail and TFL. Your expertise will be instrumental in ensuring that our projects adhere to the highest standards of safety and quality, in line with the Building Safety Act and other relevant regulations. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the successful delivery of projects within the development sector, while also gaining valuable experience in a dynamic and challenging environment.

Key Responsibilities

The Project Manager is responsible for providing project leadership and managing the overall execution of infrastructure projects from initiation to completion.

This encompasses creating a detailed project strategy, plan, and schedule, and driving the project delivery within that plan to maximize outcomes for the client and the business.

The Project Manager is accountable for the implementation and compliance with all company safety requirements across staff, contractors, and work practices, actively managing and mitigating project risks through comprehensive understanding and collaboration.

• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

Essential skills

• Ability to prepare short, medium and long-term programmes to establish coordinated strategies to deliver works packages.
• Ability to manage package risks and drive opportunities to maximise value.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical, to clients, supply chain, peers, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate an ability to be flexible in recognising where working methods require adapting and changing to suit a change in project needs or new challenges.
• Demonstrate an ability to ensure delivery of work packages and in places betterment of commercial targets.
• Demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively and lead the construction delivery team and construction workforce.
• Worked on Rail Depots, ideally within TFL or Network Rail.

Essential knowledge

• Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards, and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of the construction industry.
• Working knowledge of different forms of contracts.
• Understanding of programme duration and sequencing of works of relevant aspects of construction.
• Demonstratable experience of the delivery of infrastructure projects.
• Experience managing multiple supply chains, including sub-contractors and suppliers.
• Experience of dealing with clients, contractors, and infrastructure activities.
• Experience managing consultants to ensure design and quality assurance deliverables are achieved and recorded.
• Design, procurement, construction, and delivery experience.
• Experienced with and capable of being part of a bid team and undertaking pre-construction planning.
• Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player.
• Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury.
• Eager to make an impact on the local community to create a lasting legacy.
• Strategic thinking and visionary.
• Develop and maintain relationships with trust and confidence.

We will provide:

• Up to 10% employer pension contribution
• Private medical health benefit
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• 4 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide
• Industry leading parental leave

Please note that due to the nature of this role, national security vetting procedures apply and a full UK security check will be carried out for the successful candidate. Further details about national security vetting can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) or Vetting explained - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Belong at Bovis

We offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity are just the norm. We are a disability inclusive employer. If you need any adjustment or changes to the process, email us to let us know if you have a preferred communication method.

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Bovis is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under-represented groups in our industry including those who self-identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/ or disabled.

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