Project Manager

• Assistant Project Manager / Project Manager
• Infrastructure - Water / Utilities / Rail
• Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham (Mixture of local office, home and client sites)
• Full time - with flexible working and core hours
• Permanent

Gleeds is a leading global property and construction consultancy. Independent since 1885, we are proud to deliver award-winning projects around the world. We are a proud to say that we have been certified as a “Great Place to Work” which further acknowledges that we put our people at the heart of everything we do.

The Gleeds Infrastructure team currently has c165 staff working across Infrastructure sectors such as Rail, Highways, Utilities, Aviation and Ports. We work with clients such as HS2, Network Rail, Homes England, Scottish Water, Port of Dover, Environment Agency, Heathrow and many others, providing Programme Management, Cost Management and Project controls services to our clients.

The Infrastructure team is a people focused team with the drive to be:

• Great place to work - attracting and developing the best talent, that represents the diverse society we work within.
• Investing in and supporting our people in their chosen careers and providing opportunities.

The vision of the Infrastructure team is to:

• Develop and implement a clear Infrastructure market proposition covering Programme Management, Cost Management, Project Controls and Advisory.
• To connect and co-ordinate infrastructure sector opportunities with our regional teams to grow our market share and do it with professionalism and personality.
• Creative and realistic, we will deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients.
• Grow our UK infrastructure market share to £55m (Circa 550 people) by 2028.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Supporting Business Unit Directors in delivering business objectives
• Positively engaging with customers and developing, growing and maintaining customer relationships
• Delivering high quality services and deliverables ensuring that services meet our Customer’s requirements.
• Managing projects and/or programmes to deliver high quality services and deliverables in accordance with the business procedures
• Administering contracts as a contract administrator, employer’s agent or project manager.
• Producing and presenting to customers
• Identifying new business development opportunities and driving growth across the business units activities
• Managing service delivery for profit.
• Advising directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or may arise, on projects; in particular those that might impact on Gleeds professional indemnity (PI) insurance.

Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills:

• Proven background of experience working on UK Infrastructure Projects.
• Experience of NEC3/4 contracts
• Sound project management and/or programme management experience post qualification.
• Sound knowledge and practiced experience of project management techniques
• Ability to administer construction contracts as Contract Administrator, Employer’s Agent and/or Project Manager
• Clear understanding of legislation impacting on building contracts.
• Excellent communication skills - both oral and written.
• Methodical way of thinking and approach to work.
• Ability to absorb complex information and assess requirements readily.
• Excellent problem solving, negotiating, financial and numeracy skills
• Sound ICT skills, with a high proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work as part of a team.

Qualifications: