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Senior Project Manager

September 28, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Project Manager

We're looking 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. Within this role, you can enjoy a car or car allowance, private healthcare, one paid professional subscription per year and even more.

Location: Exeter or Birmingham - remote working available, with some travel to other offices and sites.

Contract: Permanent, Fulltime

Salary: £50k - £60k

Responsibilities

As a Senior Project Manager you will have line management of a team, ensuring all projects are governed in accordance with Core Process CP3: Project Management

Your day to day will include:

  • Overseeing and management of programme, portfolio, and project level risk, opportunity, time, cost and resource profiles
  • Being a key contact and liaison for all scheme trading, commercial and finance enquiries.
  • Contributing and supporting the embedding and use of the IMS, manage, monitor, and maintain the GIS elements
Who are we looking for?

This role of Senior Project Manager is great for you if you have:

  • Experience in working in a similar role with a relevant project management qualification
  • High level of IT competency, experience with all Microsoft Office packages
  • Full driving Licence
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

  • new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • 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
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives: https://www.kier.co.uk/sustainability/

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 26 October 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.
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