Project Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a large Rail contractor that work on high value rail projects, they are currently seeking a Project Manager to join their team. For this role you will be directly responsible leading the rail / civils teams and projects across the Southern region based from our office in Basingstoke.  

Job Description:  

As Project Manager you will be directly responsible for the daily management of various rail and civil engineering projects within our Client's portfolio work in the region. You will be responsible for leading successful contract delivery, by ensuring that the site team are fully appraised of the contract parameters and have the capability and resources necessary to achieve contract objectives.  

Some of the main responsibilities for this role include:  

• Monitor expenditure and such items as work carried out against an estimate originally prepared in order to ensure the work is within the contract or may form a separate claim constantly liaising with the Commercial Department & Regional Manager on such subjects.  

• The monitoring and control of project performance against budget, schedule, quality and safety requirements using appropriate control tools and reporting of same to their Management Team and their Client.  

• The identification of changes in the scope of work and ensuring that change orders are current and adequate. Prepare early warning and change instruction documentation.  

• Check the documents in use are current, readily available to those requiring them and stored securely.  

• Assess the standard of all proposed installation work associated within the project, undertaking inspections and preparing full reports, where required and submitting these to the Senior Contracts Manager or including the contents within an appropriate programme of works.  

• Liaise with stakeholders, commercial & planning teams.

• Previous experience as a Project Manager or Project Manager in a rail and civil engineering environment.  

• Degree / HNC or HND in civil engineering (or equivalent compensating experience in a technical engineering role)  

• PTS / SMSTS  

• Experience as a Project Manager in a rail contracting environment.  

• Experience in rail working on civil engineering associated projects