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NEC Project Manager\nDuration: 6 – 12 months\nHybrid working – 3 days based in Manchester, 2 days remote (+ ad-hoc visits to Cumbria site)\nRate: £100 p/h (outside IR35) 37.5 hours per week\nOur client is a leading engineering and design consultancy who specialises in civil engineering projects.\n\nThey currently require an NEC Project Manager to support on a large-scale project for Highways. The project is the reconstruction of M6 Lune Gorge Bridges.\n\nThe successful candidate will have both construction and design phase experience working on civil engineering/highways projects, along with PSC and ECC contract experience.\n\nRole description:\n\nReporting to Associate/ Project Director.  Providing support and engaging to ensure appropriate information is provided and advising on project delivery issues\nDirect Reports - Assistant Project Manager and Project Manager (4-5 reports and 4-5 resources / in direct reports depending on the scale of the project(s)\nAccountable for NEC contract management with reasonable complexity up to £100m in value.\nRoles at this level will operationally manage core projects or programmes of work to deliver defined objectives.\nResponsible for delivering their scope of work in line with budgetary, compliance, regulatory and planning controls, and will deep technical knowledge and broad business experience.\nResponsible for setting project delivery approach and plan in consultation with key stakeholders.\nResponsible for establishing project delivery plans and appropriate control mechanisms to assure delivery.\nResponsible for performance management of project team / resource.\nStakeholder engagement to agree project objectives, communicate project status and facilitate resolution of project issues and risks\nLeading and advising on best practice and approach to ensuring compliance with defined processes and systems.\nRole accountabilities:\n\nClient Stakeholders - agree project objectives, communicate project status and facilitate resolution of project issues and risks\nOversee an agreed scope of work and/or the operational workload of a team or contractors; ensuring allocated work is completed/resources are fully utilised in order to deliver against an agreed programme of work.\nWork within established financial systems to independently produce plans and schedules and track and manage budgets, highlighting variances in order to manage and control project delivery targets.\nDeliver a number of small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.\nPresent any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards.\nProvide advice to colleagues surrounding behaviours, to ensure adherence to internal and external compliance processes.\nAnalyse and review a range of data to identify key existing and emerging themes and trends.\nUse own and others’ analysis to provide recommendations that support project decision-making.\nUse own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to review and analyse project processes and policies, providing insightful recommendations that support senior management to improve processes and systems\nInteract effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration and ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet internal customer expectations.\nAdvise senior management on issues relating to own project, providing subject matter advice in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies.\nLiaise and collaborate with clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.  In this area there is the likely need to attend client offices 2-3 days a week.\nQualifications:\n\nBachelor ’s degree or equivalent\nRelevant professional qualification or chartered status\nProject management qualification (PMQ)\nNEC Accreditation (or equivalent experience, 5 years)  Level 3 according to NEC Framework\nPreferably a Civil Engineer\nRelevant experience including:\n\nManagement of NEC contract on construction projects, i.e. with works on site.\nConstruction and design phase experience, as the works are in design and part on site. \nExperience with PSC contracts as well as ECC and ECC option C.\nCommercial acumen and the ability to manage relationships with external stakeholders\n‘Expert’ level expertise in project management\nKnowledge of infrastructure processes (preferably highways) and an understanding of wider programme and business ·\nExperience in managing business relationships at senior-management level\nWorking knowledge of tools used by Highways, CONTRACTS (CEMAR), RiskHive, P6.\nFor more information on this role, please contact Scarlet Wilson

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