Project Manager

4 weeks ago


Salford, United Kingdom Kier Group Full time
Project Manager

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our Kier Transportation team and assist on several rail projects across the Greater Manchester area.

 

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods and equipment.

 

Location: Greater Manchester area - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required

Business Area: Kier Transportation, Rail

Contract: Full time,

 

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Project Manager, you'll be working within the Kier Transportation team, supporting the Rail business and help to expand our capability and geographical presence as a tier 1 contractor working for Network Rail and other Rail clients.

Your day to day will include:

  • Act as a key contact and establish good working relationships with the client and key supplier for your project, taking a lead where appropriate in communications from contract award through to timely defects closeout.
  • Take a strong lead in the ownership of resource programme and cost controls on your projects, managing and supporting the site teams as required. This includes production of monthly CVR and weekly CVR for directly delivered works.
  • Lead and support the commercial teams in securing maximum sustainable value from contracts, and in settling subcontracts at a fair level reflective of the subcontractor's price and performance.
  • Prepare a Contract Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality Plan at the start of the contract and ensure that the project team operates in accordance with it.
  • Where applicable take a lead in tackling key commercial, progress or contractual issues with either the Client or Suppliers

 

What are we looking for?

  • Relevant qualifications – degree level, or equivalent experience
  • Chartered Member of the ICE (or working towards).
  • Proven capability working on Network Rail projects, or in a comparable setting.
  • Excellent communication and project management skills including leading and managing technical teams.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

 

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

 

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

 

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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