Construction Project Manager

Description:

A client within the Public Sector based in South Yorkshire is currently recruiting for a Construction Project Manager to join their team as soon as possible. The client is offering a full time, temporary position on an ongoing basis with the ideal candidate having experience of working within a local authority within a transport environment.

The Role

Key purpose of the role is to plan and design transport infrastructures projects and proactively monitoring its progress, managing risks, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action.

Key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Defining the project's governance arrangements, facilitating the appointment of individuals to project teams and regularly reporting progress updates to the programme manager
• Produce costs estimates, drawings, contract documents, bills of quantities and schedules of work, managing the project's budget including third party contributions to the project, monitoring expenditure and costs
• Supervise site works including the setting out and measurement of the works and ensure that the required specifications and standards for safety and reliability
• Carry out site/premises inspections and surveys and initiate enforcement action

The Candidate

To be considered for this role you will require good knowledge of project and project management methods including MSP, PRINCE2, Association of Project Managers (APM) and/or Project Management Institute (PMI).

The below skills would be beneficial for the role:

• Preferentially an NEC Contract/Project Management qualification together with experience of applying civil engineering contracts and use of procurement frameworks within the sector.
• Knowledge of traffic and road safety legislation and its practical legislation
• Evidence of delivering projects/work programmes to quality, time and budget
• Practical knowledge of specialist IT software packages e.g. Autocad, Mapinfo, GIS or similar