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Project Manager/Senior Project Manager
Job Posted: a day ago
Salary: £ 65,000 - 75,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Position: Project Manager/Senior Project Manager
Location: Chelmsford
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 (Guide Salary) Plus Car/Allowance & Package
Our client is a Tier 1 D&B Contractor operating predominately in the water industry, who are delivering a number of water and wastewater non-infrastructure projects for Essex & Suffolk Water.
They are recruiting for a Project Manager/Senior Project Manager who will lead a multidisciplinary team, overseeing the full project lifecycle from concept through design, construction, commissioning, and handover. Your focus will be to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest safety, quality, and regulatory standards. You will champion collaboration and performance across our internal teams, enterprise partners and supply chain, fostering a culture of problem-solving and accountability. Your role will begin in one of our neighbouring regions to embed you within our culture and ways of working.
The responsibilities will include:
Promote a strong safety culture and uphold quality standards across direct and subcontracted teams
Foster and maintain excellent relationships with partners and suppliers
Lead, inspire and develop a high-performing team, empowering staff across engineering, planning and commercial functions
Translate programme-level strategy into clear, actionable plans for project teams
Plan and manage project delivery throughout all stages through design, construction, commissioning and handover; ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, and commercial targets
Collaborate with Commercial and Planning teams to maintain accurate cost and resource forecasting, and proactively mitigate risks
Ensure project solutions are safe, commercially viable, and aligned with client requirements
Drive delivery against key milestones and ensure all contractual and regulatory deliverables are met
Create an open, approachable and visible team environment which engages partners to promote collaboration and maintain positive relationships.
Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
They are seeking a proven leader with a strong track record in delivering complex infrastructure/non-infrastructure projects, ideally within the water sector. The ideal candidate will demonstrate exceptional stakeholder management, a solution-focused mindset, and a passion for building high-performing, engaged teams.
Project Management experience in managing multi-disciplinary design and construction projects, ideally within the water industry .
Degree or equivalent qualification in a construction, commercial, or engineering related discipline.
Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent
Excellent oral and written communicator with the ability to work in close partnership with clients, stakeholders, and end users.
Must be delivery driven with the ability to set targets and manage and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver to time, cost and quality objectives.
Extensive experience in project delivery
Strategic, operational, technical and management skills
Knowledge of Construction Contracts, ideally NEC and/or IChemE, with ability to negotiate and administer
Ability to present the Company at Governance Reviews in a leading capacity
Risk & Opportunity Management experience
Maintain a positive and solution oriented approach to work, providing open and honest feedback.
Working knowledge of CDM and construction Health & Safety
Desirable:
Experience in water and waste water treatment plants
Chartered with and engineering, commercial, or construction institution
NEC Project Manager Accreditation
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