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Estates Business Project Manager
Overall Purpose:
The Project Manager takes responsibility for delivery of wide ranging projects within the Estates department, ensuring appropriate governance and assurance are implemented to achieve delivery to time, cost and quality constraints. The UKAEA Estates division has a wide ranging set of projects with values ranging from £0s to £ms. Projects typically include a Sponsor role who the Business Project Manager will report to. Depending on the type of project, a Construction Project Manager may be included in the delivery team.
The role may require project management delivery in entirety, or phases or work packages within projects; and may consist of multiple project responsibility depending on project size. Primarily, the projects consist of business requirements or objectives, include technical input as well as departmental functional support ie Commercial and Financial, and the Business Project Manager role is to coordinate and monitor delivery with transparent reporting of scope, cost and timescales.
The Project Manager will report to the Interim Head of Estates, working closely with the Estates Programme Lead, ensuring that projects are transparently scoped, reported and aligned to the Estates objectives and strategic direction.
The Project Manager within the Estates group, which encompasses Campus Development and Buildings and Estate Management, will be responsible for projects which are varied and typically involve the development or maintenance and enhancement of the Campus estate assets as well as working to provide facilities that advance enabling technologies for the international market in fusion development. The projects embody our mission to develop nuclear fusion as a source of energy generation, demonstrating the technology with a view to it ultimately becoming commercialised.
Accountabilities:
* Delivery - Create and lead the project(s) to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints; ensuring clear scope and deliverables are agreed through initial baselining or subsequent change process.
* Project management - Day-to-day management and leadership of the project(s) and the assigned project team. Maintaining oversight of projects, particularly scope, risks, issues, estimate collation, planning, cost forecast and monitoring, overall execution strategy delivery
* Contracts - Overseeing contract project management, e.g. NEC4 contracts
* Commercial - Working with the Commercial Business Partners to ensure all procurement is managed appropriately
* Budget - Working with the Finance Business Partner and Estates Budget Lead, to ensure delivery within Estates overall budget, providing management of project(s) of budgets of up to circa £10m
* Resource management - The effective agreement and deployment of project resources, through clear definition of roles and responsibilities, working methods and the sequencing of tasks and assigned time.
* Benefits management - To evaluate and present decisions that secure the benefits the project is tasked to deliver
* Problem solving - Resolving obstacles to strategy delivery and leading the identification and employment of creative solutions to overcoming them
* Stakeholders and Communications - Overseeing effective communication within the project and assist the sponsor through interactions with stakeholders, defining the project milestones and deliverables
* Project documentation - Managing project documentation development for a project lifecycle in compliance with the UKAEA's Quality Assurance requirements. Working with the Project Sponsor to develop a Project Management Plan that defines how the project will be delivered.
* Governance and Assurance - Implementing and managing suitable governance and assurance processes, such as project boards and gateway reviews; suitable to the scale of project.
* Reporting - Reporting of progress against milestones, changes, exceptions, budgets and other key performance indicators through agreed reporting platforms.
* Health and Safety - Ensuring that the project SHE culture and working practices are in alignment with the UKAEA requirements
Budget Responsibility:
Projects typically range in value from £50k to £10m
Specific Qualifications/Experience:
* Programme or Project Management Qualification (MSP, APM or Prince2)
* Track record of delivering projects to budget, time and cost including robust stakeholder and requirements management
* Excellent communication, influencing and collaboration skills
* Experience of developing successful teams and individuals
* Strong commercial awareness with the ability to make sound economic decisions that maximise project value
* Experience of financial management of (£K's) budget
* Passion for ensuring good project management practices and culture
* A pro-active approach to safety, with good appreciation of UK compliance requirements in design
* Discreet and professional approach considering the business need.
* Ability to work to tight deadlines when necessary and flexibility to respond to changing priorities.
* Manage own development towards building knowledge and skills
* Excellent technical report writing skills.
* IT literate, fluent in Microsoft Office.
* Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management.
Advantageous
* Good background knowledge and understanding of fusion
* Understanding/experience of NEC4 contracts
* Understanding/experience of CDM regulations (Construction Design and Management Regulations)
* Understanding of Estates or Facilities Management
Additional Duties:
* Collaborations with external partners
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