You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. And when you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally. We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously. Simply put, this a great place to be. So, when it comes to your life outside of work, ask us about our flexible and remote working policies designed to help you get the most out of life. We have an exciting new opportunity in Infrastructure PDP for a Project Director to join our North, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (NS&NI) practice, based on the Glasgow office. This role offers an excellent opportunity for a talented individual looking to develop and deploy their career experience in a strategic delivery environment, implementing a blend of leadership, commercial aptitude with strong technical understanding towards influencing the success of major projects/programmes through decisive action and accountability. This role combines agile working from our NS&NI offices with time at client offices and sites. As a Project Director you are expected to have considerable multi-disciplinary project and programme delivery experience, ideally within a consultancy environment, and would be accountable for the guidance and the successful delivery of major multi-disciplinary projects and programmes from concept through construction. You will be adept at engaging with stakeholders, delighting clients, and guiding a team to deliver successful outcomes. Your Purpose:
* The successful delivery of the project or programme to agreed targets, e.g., schedule, budget, and quality. Identifying and agreeing project objectives and developing a strategy for achieving these.
* Identifying and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis, as well as identification of opportunities.
* Supervising the project team - building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding, and developing the team.
* Facilitating communication, co-ordination, and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners (internal and external).
* With input from the technical practices and Discipline Leads, agreeing commercial trading arrangements and communication plan for working with other teams across the business including our Global Technology Centres (GTC) in Bangalore and New Delhi.
* Owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans. Protecting the commercial interest of Atkins by ensuring timely and accurate invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow.
* Ensuring the project is closed out on completion, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.
Chartered Engineer/Architect/Project Manager or equivalent with demonstrable experience managing the design and/or construction stages of projects, with experience on large infrastructure projects' PMQ (or equivalent) recognised level of competence in Project Management - desirable. Holds market sector (industry) expertise and can use this towards development of value propositions.
* Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 or 4 and/or bespoke forms of contract. Experience of managing design projects to time, cost, and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques. Capable of establishing a project strategy to deploy extensive project resources; Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.
* Proactively manages client relationships at a high level and engages with multiple stakeholders. Ability to understand client requirements and bring together different AtkinsRéalis capabilities to develop a solution. Expertly builds trust and confidence with client and stakeholders and able to adapt to different cultures and working environments.
* Commercially and contractually astute, exhibiting strong technical insight into project delivery and quality. Proactively acts to minimises the chance of disputes and resolves any disputes which do arise. Strong understanding of foundations of assurance and compliance as defined and applied within the relevant industry environment.
* Identifies new opportunities and growth propositions and brings value into the business by seeing these through to new work for themselves and others. Competent and assured influencing others and making judgements in a strategic working environment.
* A hard working and flexible individual, who is a team player, possesses great attention to detail, is reliable, proactive and shows initiative whilst able to keep cool under pressure and when working to often demanding deadlines. Able to delegate without ambiguity and leads multiple teams by providing vision and direction. Ability to manage, motivate and mentor a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities and strong emotional intelligence.
* Collaborative approach to delivery of projects and stakeholder management. Be available to travel across the UK and work away from home on client sites if required.
Why work for AtkinsRéalis?
We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once, they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We're proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks., At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.