Senior Project Manager Assurance Rail

Overview

As a Senior Project Manager in the Engineering and Technical Assurance function, you will lead the pathways that move engineering and assurance information through review, acceptance and close-out. You’ll coordinate multidisciplinary teams to build a robust assurance record for handover of major infrastructure assets. This role focuses on process, interfaces and governance rather than performing technical reviews, enabling on-time project completion. You’ll work within a high-stakes, high-impact programme and help shape the project’s trajectory toward successful handover.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate people, processes and interfaces to move large volumes of engineering and assurance information through review, acceptance and close-out
• Manage multidisciplinary engineering and technical stakeholders and hold individuals to actions and deadlines
• Ensure evidence and records support the handover of assets from design/construction to operation
• Identify wider project impacts of incomplete assurance information and manage dependencies
• Communicate effectively with engineers and non-technical stakeholders to maintain project alignment
• Support delivery of project controls and delivery processes from design through to completion
• Oversee close-out and commissioning related to assurance records
• Collaborate with client-side or consultancy teams to align on project requirements

Key requirements

• Significant project management experience within major infrastructure, engineering or construction
• Experience managing technical assurance, engineering processes, design management, project close-out or similar complex technical workflow
• Strong process management skills to coordinate large information across teams
• Excellent people and stakeholder management skills
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering or technical stakeholders and enforcing deadlines
• Sufficient technical understanding to communicate with engineers without being a technical specialist
• Strong understanding of project delivery processes from design to handover
• Understanding of CDM Regulations in construction or infrastructure
• Previous experience in a client-side or project management consultancy environment
• NEC3 or NEC4 experience
• Ability to assess wider project impact of delayed or incomplete assurance information
• Strong organisational skills to manage interfaces, dependencies and priorities

• Stakeholder management
• Communication
• Accountability
• NEC3/NEC4
• Earned Value Management (CPI/SPI)
• Project controls

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