Senior Project Manager -£85,000- Dungeness Power Station, Kent, with travel required throughout the UK

The Role

Have you spent over five years managing projects in a regulated industry? Are you skilled at navigating collaborative environments and overseeing complex construction operations, from planning to handover? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will oversee the delivery of civil-focused projects across the UK within our Specialist Services business units. Reporting to Operations Managers and engaging directly with clients, you’ll lead every stage of project delivery, ensuring safety, compliance and excellence.

This is a full-time position that requires regular travel to project sites across the UK.

If you’re ready to bring your expertise to Dalkia and help us drive excellence in project delivery, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Take overall responsibility for the successful pre project preparation, implementation and the completion of the construction programme, meeting or exceeding all contractual obligations.
• Monitor delivery of the project, identifying risk and opportunities and working with key stakeholders to optimise project delivery.
• Assess the ‘buildability’ of the proposed design and ensure that Design teams produce feasible designs within the required timescales.
• Lead the delivery of construction works, ensuring compliance with all company processes and protocols.
• Manage and develop the supervisory and engineering team, and lead project steering groups / cross discipline action groups, as required.
• Responsible for the monitoring and management of construction budgets.
• Live the Dalkia Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Ensure that HS&E targets, KPIs are set and managed, monitor the effectiveness of the HS&E management system, lead / review accident investigations and carry out periodic Safety and Environmental Tours & risk reviews and implement safety improvement options.
• Ensure that sufficient resources are allocated to the Works Section and that each has an appropriate level of ability.
• Other assigned duties.

The Company

At Dalkia, we're not just a leading technical and energy service provider in the UK. We're an embodiment of quality relationships and long-term value for our clients. Catering to both public and private sectors nationwide, our strength resonates in the diverse expertise of our people. With safety at our core, we adopt a proactive approach that prioritises the well-being of everyone we work with. Our culture thrives on respect, inclusivity, innovation, growth challenges, and an unwavering commitment to safety.

The Person

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Project Management within a regulated industry.
• Collaborative working environment experience
• Experience in the management of a wide range of construction operations, including phasing and contingency planning, together with handover.
• Highly numerate, with strong commercial awareness and good technical knowledge
• Strong leadership and management skills, with a collaborative leadership style:
• Strong work ethic
• CSCS Card and must be SMSTS qualified.
• Strong decision-making ability.
• Proven track record in managing and leading teams, recruiting talent, mentoring and developing team members.
• Practical understanding of services discipline associated with the role this being Civil building services.