Senior IT Project Lead Civil Engineering

3 weeks ago


Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Volkerrail Group Full time
About Volkerrail Group

We provide innovative solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, specialising in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

This role involves managing multiple concurrent projects from inception to post-implementation, ensuring day-to-day operations run smoothly, resources are planned effectively, and reports are submitted regularly through proactive management.

You will work closely with stakeholders, attend steering meetings, and engage with project teams to ensure seamless project execution.

This role requires a wide range of project management experience, an insatiable appetite for delivering projects on time, on budget, and to an excellent standard, while maintaining good programme governance.

  • Lead the delivery of concurrent projects with accountability for costs, timescales, and resources
  • Drive and manage business transformation using technology, stakeholder management, and organisational change management
  • Plan and monitor multiple projects, ensuring all work is properly scoped, planned, and costed, with risks and issues identified
  • Agree plans with the Project Board and submit regular highlight reports indicating progress, any deviations, risks, and corrective actions
  • Ensure business analysts are managing their projects and workload effectively, producing regular progress reports, and keeping risk, issue, and decision logs up-to-date
  • Ensure adherence to defined project governance
  • Post-implementation reviews and formal project closeout
  • Forming, managing, and sustaining effective relationships with business stakeholders
  • Ad hoc analysis, advice, and guidance on business requirements
  • Facilitation of project workshops
  • Managing 3rd-party suppliers to achieve desired programme outcomes
  • Line management and personal development of direct staff
  • Distribute tasks fairly and ensure those tasks are carried out efficiently, thoroughly, and promptly to the best of the job-holder's ability
  • Work closely with the Implementation Manager and other ICT managers
  • Regular team and project update meetings
Our Benefits Package

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

  • Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
  • Private medical care
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
  • Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
  • Family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity benefits
  • Employee Assistance programme
  • Mental health, physical health, and financial support
  • 24/7 Virtual GP service
About You

We are looking for an experienced project manager who can lead and drive our projects to delivery in line with our business and IT strategies. The ideal candidate will have:

  • Expertise in the end-to-end delivery of successful projects
  • Excellent experience in working with agile methodology and TFS (Microsoft Team Foundation Server)
  • Proven track record and experience in all project lifecycle phases
  • Previous experience in IT software projects preferred
  • Demonstrable experience and/or formal project management qualifications, tools, and techniques
  • The ability to manage multiple work streams, conflicting priorities, differing reporting lines, multi-site projects, as well as scope change and risk
  • Excellent outstanding stakeholder, people management, coaching, and leadership skills
  • Ability to grasp issues of a business nature and assess the technical impact, and vice versa
  • Experience of managing staff either directly and within a project environment
  • Team management experience
  • The ability to have a strong impact and influence key decisions
  • Excellent organisational, planning, and time management skills
  • Prince 2 Practitioner
  • ITIL


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