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Project Manager L2
Job Summary
The Project Manager L2 is responsible for leading projects to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality requirements. They guide and coordinate with all relevant stakeholders to understand and deliver project objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs), providing daily management and leadership of the project and team.
Key Responsibilities
- Support and report to the Project Manager L1 or Senior Project Manager on all construction, programme, and commercial aspects.
- Coordinate between construction, design, procurement, and commercial departments to ensure sub-contractors progress work according to the schedule of works.
- Ensure client requirements are met by delivering quality, assurance, and compliance documentation on time, collaborating with relevant parties.
- Create and enforce SMART targets for a high-performing team, aligning with performance management processes.
- Monitor works to achieve right-first-time delivery, conduct lessons-learned reviews, and maintain daily records.
- Support construction teams with technical and engineering aspects, including method statements, site plans (ITPs), construction processes, quality control, and compliance.
- Track project progress, reporting on actual costs, forecasts, and highlighting issues and risks for resolution.
- Develop and manage readiness plans (e.g., permits) before activities commence.
- Arrange required project technical services and external resources.
- Oversee timeframes and budgets, identifying risks, challenges, and mitigations to ensure successful delivery.
- Attend and document meetings, including regular site walks, providing stakeholders with actionable insights.
- Partner in risk management and mitigation treatments, ensuring project changes are tracked and formalised within agreed timelines.
- Ensure handover documentation is ** coordinated and delivered** by practical completion.
- Collaborate towards net-zero goals, identifying and managing carbon emissions reductions during project delivery.
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Qualifications, Certifications & Experience
- Proven experience in project management, handling small to medium-sized projects.
- MCIOB/MAPM/MRICS/MICE (or equivalent training in progress).
- Construction delivery-phase experience (core for this role).
- Applicable Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card (or local equivalent).
Technical Competencies
- Specialised knowledge and expertise in project/role-specific methodologies.
- Strong communication, presentation, and project-planning skills, using relevant tools.
- Developed budgetary oversight capabilities.
- Advanced stakeholder collaboration, coordination, and influencer skills.
- Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Proven expertise in project management frameworks and construction sequencing.
- In-depth knowledge of HSE and sector-specific regulations.
- Ability to promote and apply DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly), including off-site fabrication.
Behavioural Competencies
- Champions safety practices and best management initiatives for a safe, healthy work environment.
- Days-to-day project leadership, partnering with colleagues to achieve deliverables.
- Team management, providing guidance, direction, and mentoring to help project members grow.
- Operates inclusively, fostering supportive, diverse working relationships.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
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HS2 Values
- Leadership: Use innovation and challenge to set an example.
- Respect: Recognise and value diverse perspectives.
- Safety: Prioritise a zero-harm culture for workforce, passengers, and the public.
- Integrity: Work with honesty, transparency, and consistency.
HS2 –– Working Together (MdJV)
- Be collaborative: Form an integrated project team (IPT) with Euston in mind.
- Be inclusive: Create a workplace where everyone feels heard, valued, and safe.
- Be curious: Drive innovation and improvement, engaging with others’ ideas.
- Be reliable: Deliver on commitments, follow up officially on actions.
- Be safe: Support each other to develop a safe, enjoyable, sustainable workplace.
- Be your best: Foster growth—ask/receive feedback and give it graciously.
- Be an advocate: Recognise and celebrate team and individual success.
Dragados Values
- Excellence: Innovate, invest in training, and commit to continuous improvement for high-quality delivery.
- Integrity: Operate with ethical transparency and expect high standards from all partners.
- Trust: Nurture long-term relationships built on mutual reliability.
- Sustainability: Integrate ethical responsibility and environmental efficiency.
- Profitability: Balance financial success while providing value to communities and society.
Dragados upholds Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Equal opportunities, anti-discrimination, and human rights are core to our Code of Conduct—applicable to all.
Department: (Assumed: Construction / Project Management)
Contract: Permanent Salary: Competitive (market-aligned)
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