Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager

Location: Warrington

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee multiple Projects with Project Managers reporting directly to you
• Act as point of contact for Client's Senior Management team
• Attend internal and external Senior Management meetings
• Perform Senior Management Safety Walks at project sites
• Improve KPI scores across Projects
• Drive consistency across Projects
• Assist Project Managers to;
• Identify the overall project execution strategy; develop and own project execution plan
• Plan, organise, manage and close the project
• Accountable for project budget, time and safety
• Leading development of programme
• Responsible for obtaining lead resources
• Avoiding and resolving conflict within the team and with third parties
• Overall coordination of project teams
• Leading commercial change management
• Internal BUK and external monitoring, reporting and forecasting
• Holding the rest of the project team to account for their delivery, motivation and management of team

Qualifications & Experience:

If you have the following profile, then we are looking forward to meeting you

• Extensive experience as a Senior Project Manager, in multi-discipline projects, in an EPCM / EPC company, in the UK Utility sector
• Experienced in communicating at all levels both internally and externally, including at Board level
• Experienced in developing a project schedule.
• Good knowledge of construction activities across all disciplines and how these integrate to successful project delivery
• Sound practical knowledge of and experience with various phases of engineering and construction projects - including, detailed design, procurement, construction, commissioning
• Experience and good understanding of working with the common standard forms of contract, in particular NEC4
• Results-oriented. You are only satisfied after your project is accepted by the client, you have ensured that quality and safety have taken priority and the client is very satisfied with the performance of you and your team
• You plan and organise your activities before you allow your team to start expending effort. You understand the dependencies of the activities within the project, but also the dependencies between other disciplines. You have a 'first-time right' mentality
• You are capable of identifying growth within the company with support to sales, business management, company procedures and strategies
• You delegate to your team, but at the same time you know exactly what is going on in your project, and intervene if required
• You implement a solid change control procedure for your team, and you can justify budget and planning consequences of changes
• You can lead and motivate your team so that they achieve targets and excel in delivery

• Preferred:
  • BSc / BEng / MSc or Equivalent in relevant Engineering discipline
  • Chartered or Incorporated Engineer
  • Qualification from APM (Association for Project Management) or equivalent
  • Experience as a Senior Project Manager in the highly regulated process Industries
  • NEC Project Manager Accreditation

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Engineering & Consultancy | Bilfinger UK Limited | Permanent | White-collar workers | Bachelor's degree | Project Management