Senior Project Manager

As an active Senior PM in our team, you will undertake multiple and complex work assignments, delivering within timeframes and managing resources to provide exemplary professional services to our clients. You will be comfortable working autonomously and within a team, and will deliver best in class services across multiple projects and sectors, for a broad range of clients.

Your approach will represent Egis' values and will provide a personal, quality focused service that delivers upon the clients business objectives. You will establish strong, supportive, professional relationships with colleagues, clients and the wider project teams built on mutual respect, trust and integrity all whilst contributing to Egis strategic business growth. Your primary responsibilities will include:

Planning

• Strategic project structuring and governance
• Development of Project Management Plans.
• Establishing and updating master programmes, identifying project milestones and project team member responsibilities.
• Interrogation of construction programmes, agreeing changes or enhancements.

Engaging

• Defining, liaising with and managing key stakeholders.
• Establishing, implementing and leading project meetings with all project team members and stakeholder groups.
• Producing project correspondence ensuring actions are clearly defined and delivered upon by all project team members within agreed timescales.
• Preparing formal / informal reports on a regular basis to suit client requirements.
• Attending client board meetings as required and preparing / collating board reports in advance.

Procuring

• Producing and issuing consultancy scopes of services and request for proposals and other appointment documents.
• Actively participating in the preparation of project tender documents in conjunction with the internal / external Cost Management department ensuring a full and comprehensive understanding of the project requirements is conveyed and reflected.

Managing Risk, Delivering Value

• Reviewing and comment on design packages to ensure compliance with the project brief.

• Leading value engineering and risk review workshops.

• Compiling and tracking risk mitigation activities and value engineering opportunities.

• Assessing Contractor’s claims for delay events; working with commercial team members to establish entitlement.

Project Administration

• Assessing and reporting on design team / contractor progress and commercial matters during design and delivery.
• Formal client board reporting.
• Agenda setting / minute taking as well as action tracking.
• Managing the design teams/ contractor to ensure all contract requirements are fulfilled.
• Managing and co-ordinating responses to technical queries or requests for information.
• Processing Contract Instructions and other contractually mandated procedures.
• Ensuring stipulated levels of project governance are established and document management / communications protocols are adhered to.
• Recording of all correspondence and project information - Document Management System (DMS)

Commercial

• Scheduling of project costs and negotiation of professional fees.
• Monitoring and reporting of project costs and fees.
• Requesting fee proposals and assessing the validity of requests for additional fees.
• Verification, allocation and processing of invoices.
• Preparing Change Requests and seeking costs / fees and any other implications from the project team.
• Arranging client approval of Change Requests and issuing instructions as required.

General Duties

• Establishing / overseeing / reviewing / approving the work of sub-consultants or directly appointed project team members.
• Participate in and deliver professional development and training activities, working continually to further develop your own knowledge and experience.
• Build upon and maintain culture.
• Lead and mentor junior staff.
• Network and support business development objectives.

Key attributes

• Hands-on, results orientated, and client centric.
• Energised and adaptive with a strong work ethic.
• Emotionally intelligent and able to drive the best outcomes from teams.
• Excellent written / reporting skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and a consummate and organised multi-tasker.
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple, concurrent and conflicting projects and programmes of work.
• An ability to build relationships with, and manage multiple types and levels of internal and external stakeholders often with conflicting priorities.
• Outstanding communications, listening, and presentation skills.
• Decisive and calm under pressure.
• Transparent and accountability orientated.

• Education to degree level or equivalent experience
• Members of the Association of Project Managers (MAPM) or equivalent.
• Demonstratable buildings experience.
• Demonstratable aviation experience highly desirable.
• NEC project management experience highly desirable.
• This role may require security clearance so 5 years continuous employment within UK essential.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

At Egis, we are an Equal Opportunities employer and we recognise the value of a diverse organisation. Egis appreciates all job applications. If you decide to apply for an opportunity at Egis, your application will be assessed based purely on your experience, the essential and desirable criteria, and your suitability for the role. We value each and everyone’s contribution as this builds our culture and means, if you work for Egis, you will be included, listened to and respected.