Senior Project Manager
Posted 2 weeks ago by LanceSoft UK
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Project Manager role in Birmingham, UK, involves overseeing project management tasks, including planning, organizing, and controlling resources for business processes. The position requires managing multiple projects, ensuring adherence to quality standards, and integrating vendor tasks into project plans. The role demands advanced knowledge and experience in project management, particularly in high-voltage projects for major clients. The position is hybrid, with a significant portion of remote work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Organizing project teams and assigning individual responsibilities.
- Developing project schedules and determining resource requirements.
- Monitoring and reporting on project status, including cost, timing, and staffing.
- Ensuring adherence to internal and external quality standards.
- Identifying and resolving obstacles to project completion on time and within budget.
- Managing multiple, interrelated projects, including business transformation projects.
- Integrating vendor tasks into project plans and tracking vendor deliverables.
- Coaching and reviewing the work of lower-level professionals.
Key Skills:
- Advanced knowledge of project management principles.
- Experience in managing large and complex high-voltage projects.
- Ability to work independently with limited supervision.
- Strong problem-solving skills for complex issues.
- Experience with National Grid projects.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Project Management
Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Location: Birmingham, UK - hybrid - 70% remote, 30% onsite
Duration: 5 Months Contract
Job Description: General Project Management requires general business knowledge to plan, organize, and control resources, procedures, and timing for an administrative or business process including:
- Organizing project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, developing project schedules, and determining resource requirements.
- Monitoring and reporting on the status of projects including cost, timing, and staffing.
- Ensuring adherence to internal and external quality standards (e.g., International Standards Organization).
- Identifying/resolving obstacles to completing project on time and to budget.
- May include work managing multiple, interrelated projects (including business transformation projects).
- On some projects, the work may include integrating vendor tasks into the project plan and tracking and reviewing vendor deliverables.
A Senior Professional (P3) applies advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Responsibilities may include:
- Managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision.
- Coaching and reviewing the work of lower level professionals.
- Problems faced are difficult and sometimes complex.
We are seeking 1 multidisciplinary Lead Engineers with experience as a CDAE/LCDAE on National Grid projects or a proven track record of delivering large and complex high-voltage projects for major clients in the UK.