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Senior Project Manager
Posted 3 hours ago London (Southern England & Midlands) - United KingdomPermanent
Sectors:TransmissionJob Reference: 10068
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager with a strong background in managing large-scale or multiple underground cabling schemes (132kV – 400kV). You will lead the delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure projects from early engagement through to completion. You will be accountable for project performance across safety, quality, time and cost, while leading site teams and managing interfaces with clients, designers, DNOs/TSOs and supply chain partners.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager, reporting directly to the Operations Manager to initially support the development of major EHV projects in the UK through the tender, preconstruction and early contractor involvement phases.
Responsibilities
Pre-Construction and Early Contractor Involvement
• Provide operational support to specific tenders and undertake ECI as directed.
• Ensure full understanding of complete documentation including revisions.
• Ensure output matches specification.
• Provide programme support and written text, plans, risk assessments as required for submission.
• Chair and participate in meetings, interviews etc with subcons, clients and stakeholders.
• Coordinate and manage option studies on major projects including cross site cable and landfall installations for windfarms, renewals, customer connections and EHV interconnectors.
• Assist the procurement team with developing EHV Cable standards for supply chain procurement of HV Cable subcontracted works.
Construction
• Driving the incorporation and promotion of best practice in EHV Cable installation and ensuring the project team members align to the principles of IIF.
• Be familiar with and observe all relevant statutory provisions applicable to construction and related industries.
• Implement the company’s procedures for dealing with sub-contractors and ensure proper cooperation and co-ordination takes place between the various parties who may share the workplace/site.
• Provide an overall health & safety plan for each site, making an adequate assessment of the risks involved, and ensuring that safe systems of work and method statements are produced, followed and reviewed by the project team.
• Ensure activity and/or substance-specific assessments under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations are made and communicated to those at risk.
• Ensure employees, self employed, temporarily employed and non employed trainees/persons have received adequate training and information about the activity they are required to undertake, particularly by ensuring induction is provided for those attending a location for the first time.
• Ensure employees are aware of the company’s policy for health & safety at work and that they have understood its requirements.
• Liaise with others as applicable and support initiatives for health and safety representation.
• Ensure proper protective equipment is provided, maintained and used.
• Report all accidents and incidents to the appointed health & safety manager, carry out investigations, make recommendations to prevent recurrence and ensure this information is effectively communicated.
• Arrange 4-weekly health & safety planning meetings with the appointed health & safety manager.
Complete Understanding of all the project objectives.
• Agree project targets with Contracts Manager for :-
o Quality
o Safety
o Programming
o Financial
o Client
o Staff Development
• Read thoroughly all documentation and specifications for the project.
• Understand the tender philosophy, pricing and programming.
• Attend the tender handover meeting.
Build, develop, support and maintain the team.
• Ensure that all team members are aware of their roles and responsibilities for this specific project.
• Regularly review performance against responsibilities and give feedback both good and bad.
• Develop an environment where all the team members are able to communicate with one another openly.
• Listen to what the team members have to say and support action by the individual where appropriate.
• Celebrate successes as a team.
• Facilitate when relationships in the team break down and take action.
• Encourage the client to be part of the bigger project team and monitor
• Actively follow the PDR programme and enrol team members to help you succeed.
• Give individual staff development feedback to Contracts Manager or relevant parties.
• Monitor morale within the team and take correct action if necessary with the support of the Contracts manager.
• Ensure that staff are continually developing new skills and that complacency and comfort zones are constantly challenged.
Build and maintain a good relationship with the client and all external parties.
• Act in a professional manner, appropriate to a representative of the company.
• Work to build strong relationships with the client.
• Promote similar behaviour from each member of your team.
• Constantly manage the clients expectation.
• Participate proactively in VFL Customer Care programmes
• identify customer objectives, ensure regular feedback is collected and that action plans in response to feedback are implemented.
Develop the Tender Programme into a construction programme. (Within 4 weeks of award)
• Manage and support the production of a resourced Construction Programme showing design, procurement, and construction phases with a clearly defined critical path and key milestone dates in line with VFL standards.
• Manage and support the preparation of a project forecast (Within 6 weeks of contract award)
• Manage the preparation of material and subcontract schedules including Statutory Authorities for inclusion in the programme where necessary.
• Ensure the commercial team are involved in the procurement areas of the project.
• Establish areas of responsibility defined by the programme and allocate to section leaders so that the whole team is involved in the planning process.
• Involve the commercial team in the plan ensuring they are aware of the critical path and key
• activities on the project.
• Enrol the clients representatives in the project plan so that he is aware of the critical path and the resources to be employed. Present the programme to the clients team so that there is no doubt over the project strategy.
• Section leaders to be aware of all costs targets within their control
Monitor progress with up to date programmes so that timely clear direction can be given to the team
on critical construction/financial targets.
• Organise regular update meetings with the team to review specific progress on the sections and update the overall strategy if required. Give direction on key dates, critical path and areas of concern.
• Ensure the programme is kept fully up to date with as built information, changes, delays or lost
• time complete with references and measured against original.
• Discuss the implication of any revisions to the programme with the client if changes occur and present a revised programme if applicable.
• Have weekly review meetings with the client to discuss progress even if official meetings are planned once monthly.
• Constantly review the future strategy ensuring that work is still planned in the most effective manner and that all opportunities for improvement are being investigated.
• Regularly review financial progress and review trends so that any possible overspend can be identified early and corrective action taken with the Contracts Manager.
• Provide regular formal progress updates to the contracts manager as agreed.
• Manage the production of as built information, records and dates on drawings and in diaries.
Development, Management and Maintenance of Site Management Plan
• Regular update meetings with the site team to review progress, discuss problems and agree on solutions.
• Prepare the management plan including those aspects which are relevant to the project.
• Create a concise list of those functions that are detailed in the plan and allocate appropriately and fairly to members of the site team.
• Agree with the team members which functions they are accountable for. Make sure that they are completely aware of what is expected of them.
• Communicate to all team members what everyone in the team is responsible for.
• Organise timely support from members outside the team (subcontractors) for specified functions again ensuring that clear accountabilities have been agreed.
• Regularly review procedures and suggest methods of streamlining where possible.
• Carry out spot checks personally to ensure that the systems are on track and give praise/warnings to team members where necessary.
• Ensure site induction and method statement briefings take place.
• Carry out your responsibilities from the site management plan
Identify and evaluate risks, determine and manage actions, maintain Risk Register
• Continuous process of asking, “What are the risk that might prevent delivery of this project?”
• Risks will either by Accept/Treat/Transfer/Terminate
• Consider opportunities
Manage and control changes to scope, requirements, personnel etc.
• Resist unnecessary change or preferential engineering.
• Operate VFL change control procedures, quote value and time implications of change in advance of doing the work.
• Ensure accurate records of resources are kept.
• Monitor progress against cost plans, programmes and quality/environmental plans
• Prepare detailed cost plan in conjunction with the Project QS.
• Reconcile costs spent to date and future costs on a monthly basis.
• Monitor labour and plant costs on a weekly basis against planned activity.
• Reconcile bulk materials and wastage.
• Report additional unplanned costs.
• Working with the planner to input and assess the impact of change and entitlement to EOT.
• Ensure programme revisions are issues to the client team monthly.
• Ensure detailed programmes that support delivery of the main programme are produced, used and reported again at weekly team meetings.
• Ensure compliance with the VFL Management System, quality and environmental plans.
• Assist with audits
• Ensure NO acceleration without senior management approval
Manage stakeholder engagement
• Identify all stakeholders and prepare communication plan that addresses their individual needs.
• Attend community business liaison meetings.
• Maintain open door access for stakeholders and keep register of issues raised and record actions taken.
Develop and protect our subcontractor relationships
• Assist with expanding the supply chain and develop ongoing collaborative relationships with existing suppliers.
• All subcontractors are to be approved before starting work and procurement of suppliers for key packages is to be in line with the VFL Supply Chain Policy and agreed protocol for this project.
Manage the design
• Ensure the designer deliverables are provided in accordance with the programme.
• Monitor compliance with Design and Build procedures.
Contribute to our recognition within the industry
• This means Considerate Constructor score not lower than 34/40, submissions for CEEQUAL, Safety Award, one star industry award to be agreed,
• At least two positive media articles.
Prepare and present project reports
Include –
• Programme, costs, resources
• Risk register
• Highlight reports – progress and issues
• Exception reports
• End of project reviews and lessons learnt
• Monthly client progress reports
• 4-weekly SQE minutes/reports
• Working hour/accident reports
Liaise with line management re: approvals and decisions at key stages
• Seek approval of all major plans and authorisation of significant deviation from the plan e.g. staff
• discipline unplanned cost increases, acceleration etc.
Prepare and maintain project information.
Ensure this is communicated to staff joining the team and keep available for health check reviews.
Include:
• Project objectives
• Scope
• Outline of deliverables
• Exclusions/constraints
• Budget
• Quality expectations of key stakeholders
• Acceptance criteria reflecting the users requirements
• Summary of known risks
Delivery of the project margin will be an inevitable consequence of successful implementation of the
above items.
5. POST CONSTRUCTION:
• Ensure works are completed Defect Free to minimise rework during Maintenance Period
• Ensure all post completion paperwork – H&S Files, As-Builts etc are completed in timely manner
• Ensure subcontract accounts and main accounts are resolved in timely manner.
• Ensure completion certificate is issued by client
• Ensure all actions to realise release of retention are carried out.
• Maintain relationship with customer to maximise work on work opportunities
• Ensure project close out reviews and subcon feedback scores are carried out.
6. OTHER:
• Promote equal opportunity, inclusion and diversity in recognition of the differences that exist between all peoples, irrespective of race, colour, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender including transgender, age, disability, marital status including civil partnerships or part-time status.
Candidate Requirements
Technical & Professional Skills
• A proven track record of managing heavy civil engineering /or power infrastructure projects, preferably with a Tier 1 contractor.
• Proven track record delivering underground cable installation schemes at 132kV and above.
• Strong understanding of trenching, ducting, cable pulling, joint bay construction, HDD sections, and commissioning interface.
• Demonstrable HSEQ leadership and implementation of safe systems of work.
• Experience managing utility interfaces, permit to dig, and asset protection processes.
• Competent in Microsoft Office, MS Project, and AutoCAD (desirable).
• Degree or HNC/HND in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Member of ICE, IET, CIOB or similar (desirable).
• Full UK driving licence.
Personal Qualities
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Solution-oriented with a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders effectively.
• Committed to quality, safety and client satisfaction.
• Flexible and able to travel to UK sites when required.
________________________________________
Working Hours & Flexibility
• 45 hours per week, with flexibility to work shifts, nights and weekends as project demands require.
• National travel and overnight stays required.
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager with a strong background in managing large-scale or multiple underground cabling schemes (132kV – 400kV). You will lead the delivery of multidisciplinary infrastructure projects from early engagement through to completion. You will be accountable for project performance across safety, quality, time and cost, while leading site teams and managing interfaces with clients, designers, DNOs/TSOs and supply chain partners.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager, reporting directly to the Operations Manager to initially support the development of major EHV projects in the UK through the tender, preconstruction and early contractor involvement phases.
Responsibilities
Pre-Construction and Early Contractor Involvement
• Provide operational support to specific tenders and undertake ECI as directed.
• Ensure full understanding of complete documentation including revisions.
• Ensure output matches specification.
• Provide programme support and written text, plans, risk assessments as required for submission.
• Chair and participate in meetings, interviews etc with subcons, clients and stakeholders.
• Coordinate and manage option studies on major projects including cross site cable and landfall installations for windfarms, renewals, customer connections and EHV interconnectors.
• Assist the procurement team with developing EHV Cable standards for supply chain procurement of HV Cable subcontracted works.
Construction
• Driving the incorporation and promotion of best practice in EHV Cable installation and ensuring the project team members align to the principles of IIF.
• Be familiar with and observe all relevant statutory provisions applicable to construction and related industries.
• Implement the company’s procedures for dealing with sub-contractors and ensure proper cooperation and co-ordination takes place between the various parties who may share the workplace/site.
• Provide an overall health & safety plan for each site, making an adequate assessment of the risks involved, and ensuring that safe systems of work and method statements are produced, followed and reviewed by the project team.
• Ensure activity and/or substance-specific assessments under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations are made and communicated to those at risk.
• Ensure employees, self employed, temporarily employed and non employed trainees/persons have received adequate training and information about the activity they are required to undertake, particularly by ensuring induction is provided for those attending a location for the first time.
• Ensure employees are aware of the company’s policy for health & safety at work and that they have understood its requirements.
• Liaise with others as applicable and support initiatives for health and safety representation.
• Ensure proper protective equipment is provided, maintained and used.
• Report all accidents and incidents to the appointed health & safety manager, carry out investigations, make recommendations to prevent recurrence and ensure this information is effectively communicated.
• Arrange 4-weekly health & safety planning meetings with the appointed health & safety manager.
Complete Understanding of all the project objectives.
• Agree project targets with Contracts Manager for :-
o Quality
o Safety
o Programming
o Financial
o Client
o Staff Development
• Read thoroughly all documentation and specifications for the project.
• Understand the tender philosophy, pricing and programming.
• Attend the tender handover meeting.
Build, develop, support and maintain the team.
• Ensure that all team members are aware of their roles and responsibilities for this specific project.
• Regularly review performance against responsibilities and give feedback both good and bad.
• Develop an environment where all the team members are able to communicate with one another openly.
• Listen to what the team members have to say and support action by the individual where appropriate.
• Celebrate successes as a team.
• Facilitate when relationships in the team break down and take action.
• Encourage the client to be part of the bigger project team and monitor
• Actively follow the PDR programme and enrol team members to help you succeed.
• Give individual staff development feedback to Contracts Manager or relevant parties.
• Monitor morale within the team and take correct action if necessary with the support of the Contracts manager.
• Ensure that staff are continually developing new skills and that complacency and comfort zones are constantly challenged.
Build and maintain a good relationship with the client and all external parties.
• Act in a professional manner, appropriate to a representative of the company.
• Work to build strong relationships with the client.
• Promote similar behaviour from each member of your team.
• Constantly manage the clients expectation.
• Participate proactively in VFL Customer Care programmes
• identify customer objectives, ensure regular feedback is collected and that action plans in response to feedback are implemented.
Develop the Tender Programme into a construction programme. (Within 4 weeks of award)
• Manage and support the production of a resourced Construction Programme showing design, procurement, and construction phases with a clearly defined critical path and key milestone dates in line with VFL standards.
• Manage and support the preparation of a project forecast (Within 6 weeks of contract award)
• Manage the preparation of material and subcontract schedules including Statutory Authorities for inclusion in the programme where necessary.
• Ensure the commercial team are involved in the procurement areas of the project.
• Establish areas of responsibility defined by the programme and allocate to section leaders so that the whole team is involved in the planning process.
• Involve the commercial team in the plan ensuring they are aware of the critical path and key
• activities on the project.
• Enrol the clients representatives in the project plan so that he is aware of the critical path and the resources to be employed. Present the programme to the clients team so that there is no doubt over the project strategy.
• Section leaders to be aware of all costs targets within their control
Monitor progress with up to date programmes so that timely clear direction can be given to the team
on critical construction/financial targets.
• Organise regular update meetings with the team to review specific progress on the sections and update the overall strategy if required. Give direction on key dates, critical path and areas of concern.
• Ensure the programme is kept fully up to date with as built information, changes, delays or lost
• time complete with references and measured against original.
• Discuss the implication of any revisions to the programme with the client if changes occur and present a revised programme if applicable.
• Have weekly review meetings with the client to discuss progress even if official meetings are planned once monthly.
• Constantly review the future strategy ensuring that work is still planned in the most effective manner and that all opportunities for improvement are being investigated.
• Regularly review financial progress and review trends so that any possible overspend can be identified early and corrective action taken with the Contracts Manager.
• Provide regular formal progress updates to the contracts manager as agreed.
• Manage the production of as built information, records and dates on drawings and in diaries.
Development, Management and Maintenance of Site Management Plan
• Regular update meetings with the site team to review progress, discuss problems and agree on solutions.
• Prepare the management plan including those aspects which are relevant to the project.
• Create a concise list of those functions that are detailed in the plan and allocate appropriately and fairly to members of the site team.
• Agree with the team members which functions they are accountable for. Make sure that they are completely aware of what is expected of them.
• Communicate to all team members what everyone in the team is responsible for.
• Organise timely support from members outside the team (subcontractors) for specified functions again ensuring that clear accountabilities have been agreed.
• Regularly review procedures and suggest methods of streamlining where possible.
• Carry out spot checks personally to ensure that the systems are on track and give praise/warnings to team members where necessary.
• Ensure site induction and method statement briefings take place.
• Carry out your responsibilities from the site management plan
Identify and evaluate risks, determine and manage actions, maintain Risk Register
• Continuous process of asking, “What are the risk that might prevent delivery of this project?”
• Risks will either by Accept/Treat/Transfer/Terminate
• Consider opportunities
Manage and control changes to scope, requirements, personnel etc.
• Resist unnecessary change or preferential engineering.
• Operate VFL change control procedures, quote value and time implications of change in advance of doing the work.
• Ensure accurate records of resources are kept.
• Monitor progress against cost plans, programmes and quality/environmental plans
• Prepare detailed cost plan in conjunction with the Project QS.
• Reconcile costs spent to date and future costs on a monthly basis.
• Monitor labour and plant costs on a weekly basis against planned activity.
• Reconcile bulk materials and wastage.
• Report additional unplanned costs.
• Working with the planner to input and assess the impact of change and entitlement to EOT.
• Ensure programme revisions are issues to the client team monthly.
• Ensure detailed programmes that support delivery of the main programme are produced, used and reported again at weekly team meetings.
• Ensure compliance with the VFL Management System, quality and environmental plans.
• Assist with audits
• Ensure NO acceleration without senior management approval
Manage stakeholder engagement
• Identify all stakeholders and prepare communication plan that addresses their individual needs.
• Attend community business liaison meetings.
• Maintain open door access for stakeholders and keep register of issues raised and record actions taken.
Develop and protect our subcontractor relationships
• Assist with expanding the supply chain and develop ongoing collaborative relationships with existing suppliers.
• All subcontractors are to be approved before starting work and procurement of suppliers for key packages is to be in line with the VFL Supply Chain Policy and agreed protocol for this project.
Manage the design
• Ensure the designer deliverables are provided in accordance with the programme.
• Monitor compliance with Design and Build procedures.
Contribute to our recognition within the industry
• This means Considerate Constructor score not lower than 34/40, submissions for CEEQUAL, Safety Award, one star industry award to be agreed,
• At least two positive media articles.
Prepare and present project reports
Include –
• Programme, costs, resources
• Risk register
• Highlight reports – progress and issues
• Exception reports
• End of project reviews and lessons learnt
• Monthly client progress reports
• 4-weekly SQE minutes/reports
• Working hour/accident reports
Liaise with line management re: approvals and decisions at key stages
• Seek approval of all major plans and authorisation of significant deviation from the plan e.g. staff
• discipline unplanned cost increases, acceleration etc.
Prepare and maintain project information.
Ensure this is communicated to staff joining the team and keep available for health check reviews.
Include:
• Project objectives
• Scope
• Outline of deliverables
• Exclusions/constraints
• Budget
• Quality expectations of key stakeholders
• Acceptance criteria reflecting the users requirements
• Summary of known risks
Delivery of the project margin will be an inevitable consequence of successful implementation of the
above items.
5. POST CONSTRUCTION:
• Ensure works are completed Defect Free to minimise rework during Maintenance Period
• Ensure all post completion paperwork – H&S Files, As-Builts etc are completed in timely manner
• Ensure subcontract accounts and main accounts are resolved in timely manner.
• Ensure completion certificate is issued by client
• Ensure all actions to realise release of retention are carried out.
• Maintain relationship with customer to maximise work on work opportunities
• Ensure project close out reviews and subcon feedback scores are carried out.
6. OTHER:
• Promote equal opportunity, inclusion and diversity in recognition of the differences that exist between all peoples, irrespective of race, colour, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender including transgender, age, disability, marital status including civil partnerships or part-time status.
Candidate Requirements
Technical & Professional Skills
• A proven track record of managing heavy civil engineering /or power infrastructure projects, preferably with a Tier 1 contractor.
• Proven track record delivering underground cable installation schemes at 132kV and above.
• Strong understanding of trenching, ducting, cable pulling, joint bay construction, HDD sections, and commissioning interface.
• Demonstrable HSEQ leadership and implementation of safe systems of work.
• Experience managing utility interfaces, permit to dig, and asset protection processes.
• Competent in Microsoft Office, MS Project, and AutoCAD (desirable).
• Degree or HNC/HND in Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Member of ICE, IET, CIOB or similar (desirable).
• Full UK driving licence.
Personal Qualities
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Solution-oriented with a collaborative mindset.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders effectively.
• Committed to quality, safety and client satisfaction.
• Flexible and able to travel to UK sites when required.
________________________________________
Working Hours & Flexibility
• 45 hours per week, with flexibility to work shifts, nights and weekends as project demands require.
• National travel and overnight stays required.
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