Senior Project Manager

2 months ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Gleeds Full time

About The Role

About this opportunity:

  • Senior Project Manager
  • Infrastructure
  • Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester (Mixture of local office, home and client sites)
  • Full time - with flexible working and core hours
  • Permanent

Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1885, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are a proud to say that we have been certified as a "Great Place to Work" which further acknowledges that we put our people at the heart of everything we do.

The Gleeds Infrastructure team currently has c165 staff working across Infrastructure sectors such as Rail, Highways, Utilities, Aviation and Ports. We work with clients such as HS2, Network Rail, Homes England, Scottish Water, Port of Dover, Environment Agency, Heathrow and many others, providing Programme Management, Cost Management and Project controls services to our clients.

The Infrastructure team is a people focused team with the drive to be:

  • Great place to work - attracting and developing the best talent, that represents the diverse society we work within.
  • Investing in and supporting our people in their chosen careers and providing opportunities.

The vision of the Infrastructure team is to:

  • Develop and implement a clear Infrastructure market proposition covering Programme Management, Cost Management, Project Controls and Advisory.
  • To connect and co-ordinate infrastructure sector opportunities with our regional teams to grow our market share and do it with professionalism and personality.
  • Creative and realistic, we will deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients.
  • Grow our UK infrastructure market share to £55m (Circa 550 people) by 2028.

Senior professional Project / Programme Manager, responsible for managing the delivery of project management and programme management services.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Supporting Business Unit Directors in delivering business objectives
  • Positively engaging with customers and developing, growing and maintaining customer relationships
  • Delivering high quality services and deliverables ensuring that services meet our Customer's requirements.
  • Managing projects and/or programmes to deliver high quality services and deliverables in accordance with the business procedures
  • Administering contracts as a contract administrator, employer's agent or project manager
  • Producing and presenting to customers
  • Mentoring and coaching employees so that they realise their full potential
  • Preparing bids for services.
  • Managing service delivery for profit
  • Advising directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or may arise, on projects; in particular those that might impact on Gleeds professional indemnity (PI) insurance

About You

Who we're looking for:

Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills

  • Proven background of experience working on UK Infrastructure Projects.
  • Sound project management and/or programme management experience post qualification.
  • Sound knowledge and practiced experience of project management techniques
  • Ability to administer construction contracts as Contract Administrator, Employer's Agent and/or Project Manager.
  • Clear understanding of legislation impacting on building contracts.
  • Excellent communication skills - both oral and written.
  • Methodical way of thinking and approach to work.
  • Ability to absorb complex information and assess requirements readily.
  • Excellent problem solving, negotiating, financial and numeracy skills
  • Sound ICT skills, with a high proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Ability to work as part of a team and manage teams.

Qualifications

  • MAPM (Member of the Association of Project Managers) or working towards

About Us

Be part of the extraordinary

Every day at Gleeds, we influence the way people around the world live, work and travel. Delivering on the world's most iconic projects for globally renowned clients, our teams solve complex problems that shape the future of the built environment.

One of the qualities we value in people, is the ability to think creatively about the solutions we offer to clients. With 71 offices spanning the Americas, Europe, MENA and Asia Pacific our ability to innovate and improve is a product of the varied backgrounds and experience of our people. We welcome new perspectives and ideas.

Above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, our aspiration is to leave a positive legacy for people and local communities, whilst living and breathing our three core values:

  • We're committed to our clients and our people
  • We're creative and realistic
  • We combine professionalism with personality

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, marital status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status or gender.

We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.

Gleeds is a Great Place to Work certified employer.

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