Purpose of the Role

To successfully project manage the rail engineering projects of Colas Rail Engineering such that they are delivered safely, profitably, on time, to the required quality and to the satisfaction of the client.

Key Accountabilities   

• Safety – Actively demonstrate support for the implementation of the Colas Rail Limited Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) strategy, associated actions and resulting initiatives.
• Profitability – Deliver design engineering projects within schedule and budget constraints.

·    Quality – Lead complex multidisciplinary project activities and direct project team members to ensure delivery of work within agreed timescales according to the agreed quality and in line with safety rules and procedures.

• Respect – Develop and implement effective people management policies and procedures to ensure fair treatment of all staff.

Key Tasks    

·      To provide project management and leadership of single or multiple Colas Rail Engineering projects.

·      To establish sufficient schedules, resource plans and control mechanisms to ensure that all project commitments are achieved to plan and within budget.

·      Manages client project team relationships and reporting.

·      Creates the necessary clarity of roles, deliverables, timescales and personal levels of commitment required to guarantee success of the project.

·      Leads issue resolution and risk mitigation activities for projects to ensure a proactive approach to project delivery is applied.

·      Meeting project margins established at contract award phase

·      Ensuring the safe delivery of activities on all allocated projects

·      Resolution of critical project delivery issues directly through the client organisation, including technical, commercial and financial.

Person Specification

The job holder will have experience in managing multidisciplinary projects of up to £2 million in value.   Additionally the job holder will have experience of project management and leadership of a multi disciplined team.  The ideal candidate should have Knowledge of rail operating environment, standards and safety procedures.

Qualifications/Experience

·         Experience as a Project Manager within the rail industry.

·         Degree in an Engineering discipline and preferably with Chartered status.

·         Experience within project management roles

·         Career based on experience through project management of infrastructure projects

·         Experience of managing multidisciplinary projects of up to £2 million in value

·         Proven bid management experience

·         Proven experience of multi disciplined team leadership

·         Knowledge of rail operating environment, standards and safety procedures

·         Good understanding and experience in the application of safety legislation and corporate safety procedures, including CDM

·         Good understanding of commercial issues affecting project performance and experience in assessing value / evaluating variations of construction works undertaken

·         Understanding of the engineering requirements of work on the railway

·         Understanding of all rail disciplines and interface management

·         Must be able to communicate effectively with Client staff, contract organisations and engineers

·         Experience of cost control management

·         Adept in negotiation with strong working knowledge of standard forms of contract

·         Implement a comprehensive system of change control procedures to ensure that contract technical and commercial changes are properly managed by professional head of design and individual designers.

·         Ensure that the correct position of project is properly given and that all information is reliably given.

·         Act as the formal point of contract with clients regarding project management activities and to report to clients accordingly.

·         Promote status of the business with clients, subcontractors and suppliers and ensure that all agreed contractual requirements are provided on time and to the best achievable standards.

·         Actively champions and promotes change and innovation to improve own and teams performance

·         Ability to make difficult decisions to support the requirements of the business

·         Develops relationships within their area of expertise and confidently influences other parts of the business to achieve results

·         Demands continuous improvement by setting challenging objectives