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Senior Project Manager
July 27, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Project Manager
Job title - Senior Project Manager
Location: This is an agile role where you will be based out of our Exeter or Birmingham office with home working available and some travel to other offices and sites
Business Area: Highways
Contract & hours: Permanent, Fulltime
Salary: £50k - £60k + Car + Private Healthcare + package
Imagine working with a team trusted to build and deliver some of the UK's most innovative projects in Science, Technology, Defence, Rail, Retail, Energy, Highways, Government and the Arts. Now come and enjoy the reality with Kier Group - a company where you can develop your future, shaping the world for everyone.
We are now recruiting for a Senior Project Manager (PMO Lead) to join our Highways GIS & Digital Solutions team based in Exeter or Birmingham to manage the Portfolio & Project Management Office.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Project Manager you will have line management of a team, ensuring all projects are governed in accordance with Core Process CP3: Project Management. The overseeing and management of programme, portfolio, and project level risk, opportunity, time, cost and resource profiles. A key contact and liaison for all scheme trading, commercial and finance enquiries. Contribute and support the embedding and use of the IMS, manage, monitor, and maintain the GIS elements. Support the GIS Senior Management Team as and when required. Actively promote Health and Safety in the workplace, setting a good example to other employees and ensuring awareness of and compliance with general Health and Safety responsibilities as set out in the Health and Safety Management System.
What do we need from you?
- Experience in working in a similar role with relevant qualification
- High level of IT competency, experience with all Microsoft Office packages
- Independent and able to work unsupervised to rigorous timescales
- Good team management skills, motivational and supportive
- Extremely high attention to detail and process
- Strong written and oral communication skills, confident in presentation skills
- Must be motivated, strong drive, reliable, and a pro-active, can-do attitude
- Full Driving Licence
- New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- A fantastic, matched pension scheme
- Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier's Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
- And many many more!
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds, and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing .
Turn vision into reality, with Kier.
Closing Date: 24th August 2022
Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our careers .
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