Project Manager – Water

Job Title: Project Manager

The Project Manager is responsible for the on-site supervision and coordination of water projects, with experience in gas, and electricity projects being highly desirable. The role involves close collaboration with the Project Coordinator to ensure the successful delivery of schemes in a timely and accurate manner.

Project Management

· Supervision: Oversee multiple teams of sub-contractors, ensuring projects are completed on time and to the highest standards.

· Stakeholder Meetings: Attend on-site meetings with key stakeholders, providing expert knowledge and in-sight to ensure the proposed scope considers efficient cost savings while meeting all requirements.

· Meeting Documentation: Produce meeting minutes outlining the necessary actions for the Project Team to undertake moving forward.

· Client Management: Manage multiple projects across a range of clients, ensuring timely updates on any pro-ject changes.

· Council Applications: Identify the council authority based on the project site address and make section 50 applications, preparing traffic management plans.

· New Connections: Identify minimum information requirements to enable new connection applications to the network for water connections, as well as gas and electricity connections.

· Network Identification: Identify water networks based on site address and postcode.

· Application Process: Apply to networks for new water, gas, electricity, and sewer connections based on cli-ent-provided information.

· STAT Plans: Apply for STAT plans, including gas, electricity, water, sewer and TFL.

· Quotation and Delivery Times: Know the lead times for obtaining quotations and delivery times for new wa-ter, gas, electricity, and sewer connections.

· Load Calculations: Calculate the maximum demand of residential properties based on standard ADMD loads.

· Meter Identification: Identify the required water and gas meters based on client-provided loads.

· Technical Knowledge: Advanced knowledge of water connections, as well as gas and electricity connec-tions, telecoms, sewer, and traffic management.

· NJUG Requirements: Advanced knowledge of NJUG requirements.

· Network Designs: Interrogate and challenge network designs to achieve the best value/technical solution for the client.

· Excavations and Civils: Advanced knowledge of excavations and civils.

· Street Works: Advanced knowledge of street works, including traffic management and road closures/diver-sions.

· Utility Location Devices: Knowledge of using CAT and Genny and GPR devices to record the location of utili-ties.

· Training and Development: Train, educate, and develop staff on the skills/processes listed above.

Supplier Management

· Professional Interaction: Interact professionally with suppliers to obtain relevant project information.

· Follow-Up: Chase suppliers for information/project deliverables in a professional manner.

· Relationship Building: Build strong supplier relationships.

· Supplier Sourcing: Source new suppliers, ensuring they meet ‘fit for purpose’ criteria, and identify the best sup-plier(s) for the client’s requested scope of work.

· Process Understanding: Keep up to date with supplier processes.

· Deliverables Clarity: Liaise with suppliers and agents to ensure clarity on deliverables, costs, and time scales, ensuring these are met.

· SLA Monitoring: Proactively identify where suppliers are not meeting SLAs and escalate accordingly.

· Quotation Analysis: Identify where supplier quotations vary from the client’s requested scope of work.

· Payment Management: Manage supplier payments in line with project progress and contractual obligations.

Account Management

· Professional Client Interaction: Interact professionally with clients and project stakeholders, managing their expectations in line with the project program and associated risks while ensuring a positive experience.

· Communication: Answer calls professionally, build rapport with key stakeholders, and send professional emails in keeping with company standards.

· Difficult Conversations: Handle difficult conversations within the context of the construction industry.

· Client Advice: Provide advice to clients on how load may affect the price paid or technical solution for their project and flag where slight changes in load may reduce costs/improve buildability/improve GVA.

· Cross Sale Opportunities: Identify and close cross sale opportunities on projects.

· Client Profiling: Build client profiles and map client companies based on interactions and individual re-search.

· Meeting Attendance: Attend client, design team, traffic management, and council meetings, as well as pre-meter and metering visits to ensure site readiness for installation.

Commercial Management

· Business Model Understanding: Have an excellent understanding of the company’s business model and the different services offered by the company.

· Project Review Packs: Prepare project review packs in accordance with company standards to ensure pro-jects are commercially viable, identifying errors in pricing, VAT, or T&Cs in EE Quotes/Fee Proposals.

· Quotation Review: Review quotations to ensure they contain our Special Conditions, preventing the incorpo-ration of client's terms and conditions and limiting liability to contract value.

· Risk Management: Identify where risk exposure is above £10k and pass the project to the commercial team for review.

· Supplier Audits: Ensure suppliers have been audited by the commercial team and contain at least £5m lia-bility insurance (public/employers).

· Contractual Obligations: Identify terms within a supplier’s quotation that expose us or the client to risk and flag these to the commercial team, ensuring our terms and conditions are back-to-back with the supplier’s terms.

· Project Viability: Escalate any correspondence that affects the commercial viability or risk profile of projects to the line manager.

· Payment Management: Ensure payments are made in line with contract payment profiles and make deci-sions on how to address non-payments, chasing outstanding payments as per issued contracts.

· Scope Changes: Manage the project contract and issue variations for any scope changes/increases.

Experience & Qualifications

· Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Project Manager within the utilities/construction sector, with a focus on water projects.

· NRSWA Qualified.

· SMSTS Qualified.

· CSCS Black card.

· Educated to degree level or have equivalent experience.

· Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.

· Strong numeracy and literacy skills