Senior Project Manager - Howden

Primary tasks and duties

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams from start to completion.
• Drive project performance across HSEW, quality, programme, commercial, and client satisfaction.
• Manage subcontractors and interfaces across design, utilities, enabling works and main works.
• Ensure effective planning, reporting, and risk management.
• Maintain strong relationships with clients, designers, and stakeholders.
• Foster a positive culture of collaboration, innovation, and safety.
• Support commercial teams in managing costs, change, and contractual obligations.
• Ensuring the teams have the right culture and behaviours, identifying any gaps or weaknesses.
• Directing, motivating and maintaining a competent, well-trained, flexible and engaged team
• Manage and maintain the customer relationship during delivery, including change and decision making to effectively manage expectations.
• Responsible for ensuring the highest standards of Health, Safety and Wellbeing at all times.
• Building and maintaining strong and effective relationships with the wider stakeholder community and client
• Monitor and drive weekly progress and liaise with department heads or suppliers to resolve any delays or issues identified, working with the team to mitigate any delay.
• Maintain records with regards to project performance, budget & activity

Qualifications and Training

• Essential:
• Degree-qualified in Civil Engineering or related discipline
• 10 + years’ experience within the highway construction sector, including 2 + years’ working at Senior Project Manager role.
• Strong NEC3/NEC4 knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and complex construction phases
• Experience of leading confidently on health, safety and wellbeing matters
• Be highly organised and able to coordinate a large team of contractors and consultants.
• Experience of engaging with and influencing senior public stakeholders
• Demonstrates the right culture and behaviours.
• Able to demonstrate good collaboration and organisational skills, working with an extensive supply chain of professional and/or technical service providers maintaining good relationships
• Desirable:
• Chartered status from a relevant industry body.

In return you will receive

Equal Opportunities