About this opportunity:
- Senior Project Manager
- Infrastructure
- Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester (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.
Senior professional Project / Programme Manager, responsible for managing the delivery of project management and programme management services.
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
- Mentoring and coaching employees so that they realise their full potential
- Preparing bids for services.
- 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