Finlay Jude Recruitment Ltd
Project Manager
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FJA Recruitment for a Leading Service Provider in Water and Wastewater
FJA are recruiting on behalf of a leading service provider in the water and wastewater industry for an experienced Project Manager to strengthen their delivery team.
Location: Otterbourne (Hybrid working available)
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working (role dependent)
- Car / car allowance (role dependent)
- 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays (option to buy an additional 5 days)
- Contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Health Insurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Additional benefits including cycle to work scheme, discounts & savings hub, Kids Pass and more
Project Manager Role
Reporting directly to the Senior Project Manager or Operations Manager, you will have full responsibility for managing the design, construction, commissioning, and handover of water and wastewater projects.
You will ensure projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with technical specifications, programme requirements, and commercial targets.
The role involves:
- Leading multi-disciplinary project teams
- Coordinating resources
- Maintaining strong working relationships with clients, joint venture partners, subcontractors, and suppliers
You will play a key role in maintaining customer satisfaction and protecting the company’s reputation across all project interfaces.
Project Manager Responsibilities
- Promote exceptional health & safety standards across direct and subcontracted workforces.
- Ensure the Business Management System (BMS) is implemented and adhered to throughout the full project lifecycle, from tender handover to final completion.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships at all levels, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Maintain effective relationships with joint venture partners and suppliers.
- Ensure sufficient trained personnel are allocated to the project and that all team members clearly understand their responsibilities.
- Review, approve, and manage the Project Execution Plan (PEP), ensuring robust project planning, monitoring, and control.
- Ensure detailed construction plans, method statements, and supporting documentation are prepared, reviewed, and approved prior to commencement of works.
- Ensure all project records required by the PEP are fully completed and available at contract completion.
- Ensure all site non-conformities are reported and that associated cost impacts are identified and managed.
- Proactively manage all commercial aspects of the project, providing accurate forecasts, cost control, and financial reporting.
- Apply strong project management practices from project inception through to end-user acceptance.
- Prepare and present project updates at governance reviews, leading discussions on progress, risks, opportunities, and performance.
- Maintain continuous professional development through external networking, conferences, and professional engagement to remain current with industry best practice and innovation.
- Represent the business professionally in all internal and external interactions.
- Ensure quality, safety, and environmental policies, procedures, and targets are fully understood and implemented.
- Maintain a strong working knowledge of all technical disciplines involved in delivering water and wastewater design and build projects.
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Essential Project Manager Requirements
- Proven Project Management experience delivering multi-disciplinary design and construction projects, ideally within the water industry.
- Degree or equivalent qualification in a construction, engineering, or commercially related discipline.
- Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with clients, stakeholders, and end users.
- Delivery-driven mindset with the ability to set targets and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to achieve time, cost, and quality objectives.
- Strong experience in project delivery, including planning, technical oversight, and commercial management.
- Well-developed strategic, operational, technical, and leadership skills.
- Sound knowledge of construction contracts, ideally NEC and/or IChemE, with the ability to negotiate and administer effectively.
- Experience presenting at governance reviews in a lead capacity.
- Strong Risk and Opportunity Management experience.
- Working knowledge of CDM regulations and construction Health & Safety requirements.
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Desirable
- Experience delivering water and wastewater treatment projects.
- Chartered status with an engineering, commercial, or construction institution.
- NEC Project Manager Accreditation.
If you are looking for a fantastic Project Manager opportunity and want to work for a leading contractor within the water sector with excellent long-term career prospects, please apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive we are not always able to reply to all applications. If you haven’t heard back from us within 2 weeks, then please accept that your application has been unsuccessful for the role we currently have advertised.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person’s gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications, and abilities to perform the duties of the job. Finlay Jude Associates Ltd acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.
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