Construction Project Manager

Job Description

Job Category : Engineering & Surveying
Location : Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time :17:30
Salary: £35.98

Key Duties/Areas of Responsibility
• Planning and designing transport infrastructures projects and proactively monitoring its progress, managing risks, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action
• Defining the project’s governance arrangements, facilitating the appointment of individuals to project teams and regularly reporting progress updates to the programme manager, ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the project

• Produce costs estimates, drawings, contract documents, bills of quantities and schedules of work, managing the project’s budget including third party contributions to the project, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the project progresses
• Supervise site works including the setting out and measurement of the works and ensure that the required specifications and standards for safety and reliability
• Provide consultancy advice and produce comprehensive technical reports for Council representatives and clients, utilising appropriate technical data
• Carry out site/premises inspections and surveys and initiate enforcement action
• Liaise with internal departments and external bodies including developers regarding the extension/alteration of the public infrastructure and other engineering work, making appropriate recommendations
• Demonstrate a high level of technical expertise and provide advice to internal and external clients on complex traffic and transportation related matters
• Supervise other technical staff, including planning and allocating work, checking work is done to time and carrying out on-job training
• Managing communications with all stakeholders
• Monitor and review standard procedures, operational practices and set up revised working practices.
• Where required, carry out design work to procedures and using engineering standards and codes of practice following evaluation of traffic and transportation schemes utilising investigatory, feasibility and analytical techniques
• As required from time to time, carry out site inspections and surveys and if appropriate initiate or assist with remedial action in the event of transportation asset failure.
• To deputise for the Senior Construction Project Manager roles and other roles within the scope of the service as and when required, including attending meetings during and out of hours where that is necessary.

• Experience of identifying, developing and designing traffic and transportation schemes including the use of associated project management techniques
• Good knowledge of project and project management methods including MSP, PRINCE2, Association of Project Managers (APM) and/or Project Management Institute (PMI).
• Preferentially an NEC Contract/Project Management qualification together with experience of applying civil engineering contracts and use of procurement frameworks within the sector.
• Producing complex technical and Member reports including presentation of reports at a wide range of Council Meetings and other Forums
• Evidence of delivering projects/work programmes to quality, time and budget
• Knowledge of traffic and road safety legislation and its practical legislation (e.g. Highways Act 1980, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Road Traffic Act 1988, Traffic Management Act 2004)
• Active participation in partnership groups and steering group meetings with external organisations and building consensus in respect of LTP delivery
• Knowledge of the Local Transport Plan process
• Supervision of staff including planning and allocation of work
• Experience of monitoring and control of large budgets
• Monitoring and reviewing standard procedures and operational practices
• Utilising a range of IT systems and applications
• Practical knowledge of specialist IT software packages e.g. Autocad, Mapinfo, GIS or similar
• Practical knowledge of regulatory requirements and legislation affecting the service including extensive experience of leading service Safety, Health and Environmental compliance with particular focus on Construction Design and Maintenance Regulations (CDM)
• Experience of assessing customer/stakeholder requirements and providing highways and traffic scheme solutions to meet them

Job specific qualifications: Project Management, Highways, Structures, or Traffic Engineering equivalent qualification or experience.