Project Manager - Construction

Competitive Salary

Our client is a fast-growing, ambitious business committed to supporting and developing their people to achieve their full potential. They offer opportunities to acquire a wide range of skills and gain broad and varied experience to enable career progression. By investing in their people and enhancing expertise and flexibility, they deliver the highest standard of service to their clients.

Purpose of the Role

The Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of highway and infrastructure projects across North Lanarkshire. This role provides leadership across all aspects of project planning, delivery, commercial performance, and stakeholder management, ensuring works are completed to the required standards. The Project Manager leads direct employees and supply chain partners, drives continuous improvement, maintains strong client relationships, and ensures compliance with legislation, company policies, and contractual requirements while achieving operational and financial targets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage all areas of highway works, including general highway construction works, structures schemes, environmental projects, streetlighting, and bridges.
• Responsible for health, safety, and wellbeing of direct employees and the supply chain to meet and exceed SHE targets.
• Oversee the estimating, planning, programming, and delivery of all projects across the contract via supply chain partners and direct employees.
• Manage productivity and quality of all works.
• Ensure accurate forecasts and budgets are established, and cost control procedures are in place to meet and exceed financial targets.
• Deliver monthly contract reports to the team covering SHE, operational, and financial performance.
• Work in close collaboration with North Lanarkshire Council and Partners and foster positive, open-style relationships.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, integration, continuous improvement, and the use of best practice.
• Ensure efficient and effective performance of the team to enable the team to meet performance targets.
• Ensure that the policies of the company and clients are adhered to and that the requirements of legislation are met.