VolkerWessels UK is a market leading contracting group of five closely linked businesses.
We provide integrated and ground-breaking solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.
The role of the ICT Project Manager is to lead and drive this project to delivery in line with the business & IT strategies. Supported by a team of business analysts, you will manage multiple concurrent projects from inception to post implementation, and will undertake the day to day management, resource planning and reporting through proactive management.
In addition you will actively engage with project stakeholders, and organise and attend steering meetings. You will facilitate workshops and be an advocate for gaining consensus on systems and process alignment across the businesses.
You will have a wide range of project management experience and will have an insatiable appetite and interest in delivering projects on time, on budget and of an excellent standard by taking a pragmatic approach without compromising good programme governance.
Strong leadership and excellent communication skills are a must, as well as being able to manage challenging stakeholders and sponsors at all levels of the business. This role requires excellent change and stakeholder management skills.
Duties include;
- Lead the delivery of concurrent projects with accountability for costs, timescales and resources
- Drive & manage business transformation using a wide range of skils including technology, stakeholder management & organisational change management
- Plan and monitor multiple projects, ensuring all work is properly scoped, planned, and costed, with risks and issues identified
- Agree plans with the Project Board and submit regular highlight reports indicating progress, any deviations, risks and corrective actions
- Ensure the business analysts are managing their projects and workload effectively, producing regular progress reports and keeping risk, issue and decision logs up-to-date
- Ensure adherence to defined project governance
- Post-implementation reviews and formal project closeout
- Forming, managing and sustaining effective relationships with business stakeholders
- Ad hoc analysis, advice and guidance on business requirements
- Facilitation of project workshops
- Managing 3rd party suppliers to achieve the desired programme outcomes
- Line management and personal development of direct staff
- Distribute tasks fairly and ensure that those tasks are carried out efficiently, thoroughly and promptly to the best of the job-holder’s ability.
- Work closely with the Implementation Manager and the other ICT managers
- Regular team and project update meetings
About you
- Expertise in the end to end delivery of successful projects
- Excellent experience in working with agile methodology and TFS (Microsoft Team Foundation
- Server)
- Proven track record and experience in all project lifecycle phases
- Previous experience in IT software projects preferred
- Demonstrable experience and\or formal project management qualifications, tools and techniques
- The ability to manage multiple work streams, conflicting priorities, differing reporting lines, multi-site
- projects as well as scope change and risk
- Excellent outstanding stakeholder, people management, coaching and leadership skills
- Ability to grasp issues of a business nature and assess the technical impact, and vice versa
- Experience of managing staff either directly & within a project environment
- Team management experience.
- The ability to have a strong impact and influence key decisions
- Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
- Prince 2 Practitioner
- ITIL
If your past experience doesn’t match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.
Why work with us?
VolkerWessels UK operate through five separate, but complementary businesses, working in collaboration and using our specialist skills to deliver an integrated service for our clients. At any one time, our people are working on our sites or in our offices, for around 250 projects across the UK. Everyday we overcome challenges, fulfilling our commitments, no matter what. That’s what our business is about, that’s how our people find satisfaction in their jobs.
We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.
We offer a range of benefits, including:
- Competitive salary
- Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
- Private medical care
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
- Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
- Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
- Employee Assistance programme
- Mental health, physical health, and financial support
- 24/7 Virtual GP service
Fairness, inclusion and respect
We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.
If you need support with your application, please contact us at careers@volkerwessels.co.uk
Additional information
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.
We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed to careers@volkerwessels.co.uk
VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.
