Project Manager

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Job Description

About the job.

National Highways have an excellent opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Third-Party Integration team in Major Projects. As a Project Manager, you will plan and manage the assurance and integration of one or more projects between National Highways and third parties to influence outcomes, mitigate risks and protect National Highways' reputation in the context of our Licence Obligations. You will also work in line with our Corporate Imperatives, Standards and Policies to ensure successful delivery and integration of third-party infrastructure projects, acting in line with mandatory and delegated responsibilities.

Please note this is a full-time site / office-based position and will be based from our Bristol Temple Point office however travel to various sites within the region will be required.

• Contribute to driving improvements in health, safety, and wellbeing, establishing a culture where you prioritise the health, safety and wellbeing of you and your team at all times. Maintain familiarity with all relevant safe working procedures and instructions and be willing to raise health, safety, and wellbeing issues with your line-manager / third parties. Challenge unsafe conditions or behaviours to ensure that everyone gets home safe and well. Ensure third parties are aware of NH health, safety and wellbeing policies, procedures and requirements.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Programme Manager, Senior Project Manager, Project Board, 3rd Party Leads and other key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects' strategic and delivery / assurance objectives, to report on and review project performance, and to agree solutions that resolve complex issues.
• Plan and manage NH engagement with third-party design development and agreement and implementation of delivery and integration plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes, and comply with National Highways' Policies, Procedures and locally defined procedures/requirements ensuring the third party demonstrates compliance at all stages.
• Ensuring third parties demonstrate quality assurance, overall integrity consistency and coherence of their programme, active management of interfaces with interdependent programmes / portfolios / projects and robust evidence of compliance with National Highways' technical and specialist standards and relevant technical processes.
• Contribute to the identification and evaluation of third-party interface risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary support development, agreement, and implementation of solutions to overcome these. Identify key NH risks (assurance/reputation/cost) and ensure these are robustly carried forward with third party to appropriate resolution or agreed position

About you.

• Suitably qualified and experienced, ideally with a certified accreditation in project or programme management at International Project Management Association Level C: e.g. (Association of Project Managers' Practitioner Qualification) or similar.
• Ideally a Full Member of Association of Project Managers or other appropriate professional body for their specialist field or a willingness and commitment to attain.
• Evidence of leadership on safety standards and their implementation within multiple team reporting structures within a complex projects' environment.
• Experience of managing complex relationships with multiple stakeholders and evidence of skills to influence relationships for positive outcomes.
• Experience of managing teams to successfully assure and integrate third-party led development of complex, medium/high risk projects or high-profile projects.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Major Projects are responsible for complex asset renewals, major enhancements and the delivery of 3rd party works on our road network. We make roads safer, journeys more reliable and unlock economic growth. At the same time, we seek out ways to create opportunities for sustainable travel, help nature to thrive and support our journey to net zero carbon.

Our team work closely with the supply chain to design and construct road projects, as well as develop a pipeline of possible projects as we look to the future.Our skills span many areas from customer experts, land and property advisers to project management. We understand the potential that our road schemes can bring.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

About Us

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We're proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you'll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we're open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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