We're looking for a Senior Delivery Manager to join our Transportation team based in Brixworth. This is for our highly esteemed contract supporting North & West Northamptonshire council roads network. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Brixworth, Northamptonshire

Hours: 40 hours per week 

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Delivery Manager, you'll be working within the Major Projects team, supporting them in delivering major projects, across West Northamptonshire and North Northamptonshire councils, working with supply chain partners and stakeholders ensuring ownership in accordance with policies and requirements of the client. You will be collaborating with the senior management team and wider teams, providing a seamless service across regions. Partnering with stakeholders, generating future projects, further developing the existing Northamptonshire contracts.

Your day to day will include:

• Leading on the planning, execution, monitoring, and completion of major highways projects, developing and designing comprehensive project plans outlining scope, goals, deliverables, resources, budget, and timelines, ensuring alignment of project objectives with organisational goals and client requirement, actively identifying future funding opportunities along with future pipelining of projects within highways and the wider local authority teams
• Acting as the primary point of contact for all project stakeholders including clients, contractors, regulatory bodies, and internal teams, facilitating regular communication and reporting to stakeholders on project progress, risks, and issues, overseeing project budgets, controlling costs, delivering projects within financial constraints. preparing and presenting financial reports and forecasts to senior leaders, identifying and managing project funding sources and allocation, recognising potential project risks and developing mitigation strategies
• Monitoring and managing risks throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring minimal impact on project delivery, conducting regular risk assessments and updating risk management plans as necessary
• Steering and mentoring a team of project managers, engineers, and support staff, assigning responsibilities confirming team members are aligning with project goals, promoting a culture of high performance, continuous improvement, and adherence to best practices, making sure all project deliverables are meeting the highest standards of quality and complying with relevant regulations and standards
• Implementing and overseeing quality control processes and procedures, conducting regular project reviews and audits guaranteeing compliance with project specifications and standards, checking project activities are complying with legal, regulatory, and safety requirements, advocating a culture of safety and environmental responsibility across all project activities

What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Delivery Manager is great for you if:

• You can lead and motivate teams successfully within the highways or infrastructure sector, ideally within a local authority term service contract environment, along with a strong understanding of project management and significant practical knowledge in managing major highways or infrastructure projects
• Hold a degree in Civil Engineering, or a related discipline. PMP (Project Management Professional) certification or equivalent professional qualification, proven ability in leading on large, complex projects with budgets exceeding £5m, demonstrate great knowledge in highways engineering principles and construction practices
• Are able to manage multiple projects and prioritise tasks effectively and also influence, negotiate, and manage stakeholder relationships effectively

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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