Senior Project Manager

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Senior Project Manager

Location:Flexible across South London/Crawley/Maidstone
Business area: Kier Utilities – UK Power Networks
Contract: Permanent, full time
Salary: Competative + great benefits package and car/allowance

We are Kier, one of the UK’s leading construction and infrastructure services and we have an exciting opportunity to join an established team on a long-term collaborative Alliance agreement between Kier, UK-Power Networks, Morrison and Clancy. The ED1SON Alliance is charged with delivering a £1bn programme in the 2016-2023 ED1 and 2023-2028 ED2 regulatory periods. Kier has been appointed to undertake cable, overhead line and substation infrastructure projects across the Southern and Eastern Power Networks regions. Project values typically range from £500k to £10m.

Kier Utilities are looking to recruit up to two Senior Project Managers, who will report to the Contracts Manager.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial monitoring and control of a portfolio of Asset Management / New Connection contracts, ensuring Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality compliance in accordance with Kier’s Operating Framework, Project Lifecycle Management, and IMS

• Maintain excellent working relationships with clients to ensure their needs are met and ensure projects are programmed in P6 to a level of detail necessary for operational teams to deliver the projects and that the programmes are contractually compliant

• Ensure the production of as-built and impacted P6 programmes whilst ensuring a commercial plan and end of life forecast is in place and monitored monthly for the successful commercial delivery of projects

• Ensure and oversee the production of progress reports, updated costs and forecasts

  
  

What do we need from you?

• Relevant qualifications and experience in a construction environment with excellent people and contract management skills along with a Full Driving Licence

• Full understanding of current Health & Safety Legislation, including HSWA and CDM Regulations

• Excellent NEC3 contractual and commercial awareness and target cost contracts including the Early Warning and Compensation Event mechanisms

• Good computer skills and knowledge of common programmes such as Microsoft Office and P6

  
  

At Kier, we’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our benefits include:

• New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer

• A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.

• A fantastic matched pension scheme

• Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans.

• 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family

• Kier’s Green Car Scheme

• A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

• And many many more!

  
  

Find out more at https://www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits/

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.