Project Manager - Ports 1

at  Mott MacDonald

Project Manager - Ports 1
Country: United Kingdom
Position Location: Bristol, United Kingdom / Birmingham, United Kingd
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Transport
Discipline: Project programme and commercial management
Job Ref: 5924
Recruiter Contact: Danielle Judd

EQUALITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

OVERVIEW OF ROLE

Our transportation portfolio is primarily a UK based business working in three key sectors of rail, highways and aviation. We deliver programme, project and commercial management services to clients in mainland Europe, Africa, Middle East, India and Australasia and supporting other parts of the transportation business across the globe. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as ‘credible’ and ‘preferred’ for our existing and new clients.
As Project Manager you will take accountability for the role of successfully delivering a variety of projects, from multi-disciplinary internal teams to external client secondments. Our vision is to deliver excellence to our stakeholders and be the clients first choice provider of PPCM in the ports sector.
We encourage cross sector opportunities to expand knowledge and experience. There will be opportunities to work on rail, highways and energy projects.

MAIN DUTIES

The successful management of the development, design stages, delivery and handover of projects as instructed, ensuring:

• Processes and procedures are applied, and any governance protocols followed
• A project management plan is developed and maintained for each project
• Projects are scoped in accordance with agreed project objectives,
• Deliverables are clearly identified and executed,
• Key parameters of cost, time and quality are achieved providing a coherent and realistic action plan against deficiencies,
• Liaise with the projects H&S&W and CDM Representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project / contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and/or adhered to,
• Establish effective stakeholder and communication management processes and structures across the project, Client and stakeholder teams, undertaking stakeholder mapping and understanding the role of project influencers, developing strong working relationships where appropriate. Specifically consider all necessary actions in terms of liaison, process mapping and reporting with statutory and technical assurance bodies, mitigating potential delays and costs to project performance through timely submissions and consenting requirements,
• Liaise and work across all commercial, procurement and general project control functions, providing the necessary project management input to deliver projects within the agreed project parameters,
• Assess the necessary level of resources and competence in the supply chain teams, taking all necessary reactive measures where required to ensure the required performance,
• Successful administration of the NEC suite of contracts for professional and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes.