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Programme Manager (Contract)
Location: Winchester
35-45ph
Duration: Until end September 2025, then on a 6-month rolling basis
Part Time 10 hours a week
Closing Date: 1/4/2025
About Our Client:
Thriving in the public sector, our client leads with an adept in-house team proficient in diverse property functions. From civil engineering to project management, they excel across a spectrum of services, including contract management, surveying, asset management, and planning.
Overview: Initial work will include updating the workload planner for Hampshire Engineering Service, training others in the use of Primavera P6 and assessing programmes on major civil engineering projects.
Responsibilities:
- As part of this role, the candidate should expect to carry out work within the following areas:
- Programme Planning and shaping: support clients to articulate their needs and aspirations for their programmes. Translate these needs into deliverable outputs with others across Engineering Services.
- Ensure the programmes meet the client's needs and delivers high-quality, cost-effective projects and evidence the value for money
- Demonstrate the skills and ability to lead a complex programme of work; introducing structured governance, mapping resources, clear stakeholder engagement and communication planning and linkages necessary to achieve the desired programme outcomes.
- Liaise with others within Engineering Services to identify and illustrate forward workload to support business planning.
- Combine different project, programme and workstream programmes into a single master programme for Engineering Services to support the management of the forward workload and continuous improvement.
- Be the best practise lead for Microsoft Project and the application of it within Engineering Services.
- Responsible for designing template programmes relating the diverse projects and programmes delivered by Engineering Services. Establish common standard working practice for all programmes to follow. Audit when required the appropriate use of programmes and develop to ensure lessons learnt and market intelligence are reflected in new templates.
- Carry out scenario planning / optioneering and issue resolution.
- Analysis and development: ensure programme data is analysed and trends with performance and market conditions are captured.
- Seek and enable connections across teams.
- Facilitate workshops to support the management and delivery of projects, programmes and workstreams.
- Deliver Primavera P6 training to the Project & Programme Management team.
Decision Making Areas:
- Ability to generate sound solutions to complex problems
- Detailed knowledge of technical software applied to the NEC contract and construction processes
Qualifications
- Appropriate knowledge, experience and training in the use of planning software such as Primavera P6, Asta, MSP
- A sound understanding of the NEC Contracts clauses and principles
- Recent and relevant experience as a planner managing programmes of work or similar
- Strong communication skills - able to influence and make sound judgements in varied and complex situations.
- Strong personal organisational ability and project management skills - ability to manage a range of complex issues.
Working Conditions:
- Working hybrid in an office environment (mixture between home and office in Winchester
- Communication with colleagues and contractors.
- Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of the role.
If you believe you possess the necessary skills and experience for this role, please apply by the closing date. We look forward to hearing from you!
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
