Senior Project Manager - Central Government

Role: Senior Project Manager REF 99815
Contract Length: 24 months
Location: Bridgwater, Somerset
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: £50.67 - £55.34 per hour
Security Clearance: BPSS

Spinwell is recruiting for a Senior Project Manager for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Establish a vision and strategy to positively direct a team in the achievement of common goals and overall organisational objectives and benefits.
• Accountable for ensuring the safe delivery of a project to time, cost and quality with responsibility for leading the project to a successful conclusion.
• Take personal responsibility for the consistent application and standards of project procedures.
• Provide leadership, management, and governance to ensure projects meet specified requirements.
• Delivery of projects and programmes within a contractual framework operating with processes to ensure legal and contractual compliance in conjunction with the responsible Commercial Manager.
• Establish and verify delivery programme baselines and operate project control processes (requirements capture, planning, cost, risk, trend analysis and change control).
• Through stakeholder analysis effectively identify and actively manage stakeholders consistent with the overall strategy of the business and delivery of component programmes and projects.
• Proactively work to prevent adverse impacts on delivery through management of risks and project interdependencies. This includes development of a project risks and opportunities plan and instigates mitigation measures or other appropriate actions.
• Able to identify, define and manage change at an organisational level through the delivery of projects and work packages.
• Provides project performance data (i.e. critical path analysis, float erosion, milestones, CPI, SPI and EVA) to the Programme Delivery Manager.
• Lead CDM activities for the project in accordance with the Health, Safety and Environment process.
• Establish a vision with proactive management to positively direct a team in the achievement of common goals and overall organisational objectives
• Take collaborative responsibility for ensuring the safe delivery of a project to time, cost and quality with responsibility for leading the project to a successful conclusion
• Take personal responsibility for the consistent application and standards of project procedures for performance of administrative, project and design in accordance with PD25 Project Management Process and Procedure
• Provide leadership, management and governance to ensure projects meet specified requirements
• Actively promote environmental awareness/considerations and sustainability through the project delivery cycle
• Assist the Programme Manager and Programme Director in discharging his or her strategic and capability development responsibilities
• Deputise for the Programme Delivery Manager as required
• Leading the project for the Project Engineer role – schedule, cost, prepare and sanction of the relevant paperwork for the funding through the business – accountability for the project

  SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

• Educated to Degree level / holds professional qualification in a relevant discipline (essential).
• A recognised project management professional qualification e.g., APM PMQ Project Management Qualification etc. (essential).
• Experience of delivering major multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects in a highly regulated industry from concept to completion – applications are welcomed from candidates in and outside of the nuclear industry (essential).
• Safety Leadership qualification, e.g., SMSTS, IOSH or equivalent (desirable).
• Full working knowledge and experience of implementing CDM regulations (desirable).
• Proactive communicator both internally and externally to the project (essential).
• Customer focused with ability to develop and maintain positive and interactive project relationships (essential).

If you are a Senior Project Manager, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.