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Project Manager - Design and Construction (water)

Stantec, City of Westminster

Project Manager - Design and Construction (water)

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Stantec, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 4 days ago, 25 Oct | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: d6e55a2b09f74d81a695f0e53b24955b

Full Job Description

  • Overseeing multi-disciplinary design coordination and providing leadership
  • Driving collaboration with all stakeholders across all stages of the project lifecycle
  • Driving timely delivery of technical and commercial outcomes, ensuring delivery is above client expectation
  • Accountable for ensuring effective financial and project management controls are in place and deployed to enable monitoring, modification and forecasting of design progress as appropriate
  • Communicating effectively with all stakeholders to ensure that all parties are kept informed on all relevant matters impacting and influencing project design outcome
  • Driving project performance, service delivery and technical outcomes, ensuring client delivery is above expectation

    You will have prior demonstrable experience of working in roles where you have provided leadership on major projects in consultancy or contracting companies - either as a Project Manager, Design Manager, Project Engineer or Project Leader. You will most likely be from a technical background - either technical engineering, construction management, environmental or other consulting backgrounds.
    • You will hold qualifications in engineering or project management with a deep understanding of large and complex construction / engineering projects. You will also need to possess strongly demonstratable commercial and contractual acumen and understanding of NEC contracts. Through your previous roles within project delivery, you will have experience of achieving a position of trusted partner with clients and other stakeholders and acting as a mentor for less experienced team members. At all times you will support, promote and maintain our company values, especially in ensuring we put our people & clients first., First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life through your contribution to water projects and the built environment, You are a degree qualified engineering professional with extensive experience in project and/or design management and will come to us with:
  • Demonstratable success in leading multidisciplinary design teams within a design and engineering consultancy or contracting environment
  • Ability to effectively implement design delivery best practice including risk and change management, project and work breakdown structure planning and establishment
  • Knowledge of modern methods of delivery including through model-based systems engineering and digital engineering processes
  • Construction staging and experience would be advantageous
  • Well-developed commercial skills, preferably within the water industry and NEC suite of contracts.
  • Established stakeholder management capability with a focus on building credible, collaborative but influential relationships both internally and externally.

    Stantec are actively involved in the design and management of major projects across sectors including energy, infrastructure, transportation and water. We are trusted by our clients to ensure the successful delivery of major projects across the UK and overseas. Our ongoing success is creating opportunities for existing employees and has also created this opportunity for a project leader to join our team. The role can be based from any of our Southern UK & Ireland offices including High Wycombe, Reading, Brighton or London, with hybrid working allowing for a combination of in-office and home working.
    • As a Project Manager you will have a key role to ensure the successful delivery of major projects within our Major Projects community. You will coordinate all aspects of our delivery to enable the delivery of design services within a multi-disciplinary design & build (D&B) environment. You will be working collaboratively with some of the industry's leading design teams and optimally involving our client and other partner organisations to achieve successful outcomes. You will create a positive environment and lead the team to deliver best value and client service excellence. Our D&B projects are exciting environments that involve the need for effective identification and adoption of innovative process and techniques that deliver sustainable solutions. Our Major Projects community will support you and provide access to Stantec's world-class expertise to provide cutting edge delivery. We will support the development of you and your career to achieve your ambitions. This is a great opportunity to join a part of our business with huge growth potential to make a real positive difference to the water industry. This opportunity will appeal to those looking to work collaboratively to drive continuous improvements and best practice, and to exceed client expectations. Our UK & Ireland business continues to grow at an impressive pace - this is a great time to join and help develop a mature project delivery offering., The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities. Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today's challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

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