AddressSkanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society. Known for working on major projects, we are building, upgrading, and maintaining the country's infrastructure for future generations.
Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative, and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.
Working as a Project Director in the Infrastructure team for this Rail framework, you'll be responsible for delivery of projects between Birmingham and Manchester and will bring together a project team with a diverse mix of roles and responsibilities, managing efficient and cost-effective project delivery.
You'll:
- Set a positive example of the company, through "Values and Behaviours" and a ct as a role model to the team to ensure these "Values and Behaviours" are embedded throughout the project.
- Drive the successful delivery of projects in accordance with the Company's Procedures, Management Systems and Performance Targets.
- Create and build suitably experienced project teams for the benefit of the Company and the project.
- Support the Directors and the Board to build the business in accordance with the "Strategy Plan".
- Lead the development of client, customer, stakeholder and supply chain relationships.
- Have overall responsibility for delivery of projects to contractual arrangements and the financial outcome agreed.
- Establish the Project Execution Plan and set up the project organisation for its implementation.
- Provide leadership, direction and mentoring to Project Managers, responsible for large scale multi-disciplinary teams developing high quality solutions on time and on budget.
- Liaise with senior stakeholders, including client Project Directors (or equivalent) to resolve issues early and safeguard our interests.
- Agree commercial strategies and assist with the delivery of business targets.
- Develop potential future work opportunities through relationships with clients, suppliers and members of the construction community.
- Implement an improvement process on the project to identify best practice, implement improvements and gather and feedback knowledge and inform the team how knowledge may be accessed.
- Promote the culture of inclusion and support for all stakeholders, internal and external, to the scheme, programme or alliance.
- Proven collaborative leadership skills, including project delivery on large infrastructure projects, work winning and business leadership; both inward and outward focused.
- Experience of building and leading large, diverse teams - inspiring the pursuit of excellence and delivering outperformance against defined success measures.
- Experience of strategic thinking and contributing to the development and implementation of a strategy that delivers against a compelling vision or outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills in a 360-degree sphere. Experience of developing and maintaining excellent customer relationships based on value-driven approach.
- Experience of developing and maintaining excellent relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Proven knowledge and experience of commercial and contractual conditions and project management.
- Programme management experience at a senior level with evidence of managing and delivering multi-disciplinary Infrastructure Projects.
- Project or programme management of large infrastructure framework in the Infrastructure Sector, exhibiting leadership capabilities to lead large diverse teams.
- Significant experience in dealing with infrastructure and public sector clients
- Extensive and successful experience of leading a framework, collaborating with 3 rd party partners and negotiating individual work orders with customers to meet the business and customer needs.
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.
Flexible working
We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.
Reasonable adjustments
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using recruitment@skanska.co.uk if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.
More information about the role
Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: recruitment@skanska.co.uk
Closing date
The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.
