Project Manager

1 day ago

Bedford, United Kingdom National Highways Full time

Your new role

We are currently recruiting for an experienced Project Manager to join our team in Bedford, on a permanent, full time basis. Within this role, you will be managing the delivery of a portfolio of concrete road maintenance and improvement projects, althoughyou may be required to support a wider programme of road schemes within the East. This role plays a pivotal part in supporting the local economy making sure transport links run safely and smoothly.
National Highways work with safety and customer experience at their very heart. We are proud of the road network that we manage and the way it connects millions of lives every year.
What you’ll be leading on
- Manage the development of 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 process 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 ofthe 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
- Up to date knowledge and understanding of CDM and health and safety regulations
- Knowledge of Highways Construction & Maintenance practices
- Knowledge of NEC contracts
- Evidence of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with delivery partners
- Computer literate - Word / Excel / MS Project etc.
- Recognised qualification in Engineering and/or Project or Programme Management - (desirable)
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.

**About Us** At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.

We also offer:

- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme

Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation

And finally we reserve the right to close before the advertisement expires

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