Project Manager – Scheme Delivery Operations

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team in either the Bedford, Cambridge or Ipswich offices on a permanent, full-time basis. This role is a hybrid mix of regular site and office attendance, alongside agile home working. Within this role, you will be managing the delivery of a portfolio of Third-Party Works’ projects, from detailed design and delivery to handover into maintenance.

The schemes will be located on motorways and major A roads through the within the Eastern Region and cover a variety of asset types including pavement, barrier, structures, drainage and geotechnical. As a Project Manager in the 3rd Party Projects team, you will be responsible for the end to end process including involvement with drafting legal agreements, technical reviews of design proposals, and close management of budgets. This role plays a pivotal part in supporting the local economy and supports growth and regeneration through the region.

What You’ll Be Leading On:

Manage the development of designs, project plans, agree key project milestones, scope, acceptable risks and priorities with key stakeholders, ensuring the appropriate governance is in place to achieve successful delivery.
Ensure that all projects are in scope and are delivered within agreed parameters for quality, cost and time, ensuring they meet intended outcomes, customer service levels, quality and health and safety standards.
Manage the expenditure budgets for all projects in scope, ensuring effective financial practices are in place and adhered to by all project resources.
Achieve efficiencies, best practice and continuous improvements by ensuring that programme delivery plans are optimised through effective collaboration between stakeholders, economical sequencing of delivery activities, and optimal management of resources.
Ensure all safety processes are in place at start of scheme. During scheme construction seek continuous improvement, encourage near miss reporting from all levels of workforce, share lessons learnt and install a culture that everyone goes home at the end of the day safely.
Establish and maintain professional and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and supply chain, ensuring regular checkpoints take place to build trust, update on progress and address any concerns.

To Be Successful

Knowledge of Highways Construction & Maintenance practices and up to date knowledge and understanding of CDM and health and safety regulations
Knowledge of NEC forms of contracts
Experience of managing complex relationships with multiple stakeholders or customers to influence positive scheme delivery outcomes.
Evidence of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners
Recognised qualification in Engineering and/or Project or Programme Management or equivalent significant vocational experience

A bit about us

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.

Want to know more?

For a copy of the Job Description please contact hrhighwaysengland@mailgc.cx.ukg.oraclecloud.com quoting reference #4990