Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager - Transportation (TRUe Project)

Location: Cross Green, Leeds - LS9 0SG

About Us

With a proud history dating back to the 1960s, we provide practical, innovative results, working around the individual needs of our customers. From rail renewals to enhancements, bridge building, highways, ports, and emergency earthworks – our award-winning team has extensive experience and has been involved in projects that have changed the face of transport networks in three countries.

We dedicate ourselves to being ‘better engineered’ to ensure our transportation infrastructure solutions meet and exceed customer requirements, delivering value for money through innovation.

About the TRU East Alliance

The aim of the TRU East Alliance is to transform the East of Leeds route allowing people to travel faster, more reliably, and in greater comfort between the North’s great cities. Providing passengers with more choice, more seats, and better facilities on a safer, cleaner, more environmentally friendly railway.

Role Overview

You will be responsible to lead and be accountable for a project (or aspect of a larger project) or portfolio of small projects, ensuring that the scope of works are delivered in a safe manner, on time, to the required quality standards, meeting the acceptance criteria and achieving the expected financial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• To be fully ownership for the delivery of the project, ensuring it is completed safely, on time, in accordance with the contract requirements and to the agreed budget.
• Ensure works are planned, managed, and delivered in a safe, controlled, and environmentally sustainable manner.
• Ensure risk assessments are created, in place, and reviewed regularly.
• Ensure responsibilities of Principal Contractor are discharged in line with CDM Regulations.
• Organise the project team to deliver the contracted scope of works.
• Manage the project team, providing guidance and direction and assist their professional development.
• Chair regular project team meetings, ensuring actions are recorded and closed out.
• Ensure the project requirements are identified, understood, and delivered and key issues are resolved and controlled.
• Refer any significant issues to the overseeing manager and work with them to ensure they are managed and resolved.
• Manage the “fit to start” process to ensure that we mobilise in a controlled and timely manner to facilitate the timely delivery of the project scope.
• Ensure there is an effective, comprehensive, and formal handover from the team to the delivery team.
• Where relevant, arrange for mobilisation and demobilisation of projects assisted by PSC.
• Develop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external).
• Ensure the requirements of the contract are complied with by the project team and administered and discharged appropriately.
• Ensure that suitable and robust change control processes are in place to identify, notify, measure, and concur the impact of change in accordance with the contract requirements.
• Ensure detailed records and allocation sheets are maintained for all aspects of the project.
• Lead the development of resource forecasts (staff, labour, key plant, and materials), ensuring they are aligned and coordinated with the programme.
• Accountable for ensuring the financial performance of the project (or aspect of a project) is achieved or exceeded.
• Leading the review of the project CRF on a monthly basis.
• Ensuring the project performance is reported in a transparent and accurate manner.
• Lead the development and implementation of improvement actions where necessary to ensure the financial objectives are achieved / bettered.
• Assist the procurement of suppliers and sub-contractors.