Project Manager

We're looking for a Project Manager to join our Kier Transportation team based at our Oxford Rail Station project.

Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment

Location: Oxford - remote working available, with occasional travel to the office required

Business Area: Kier Transportation, Rail

Contract: Full Time, Permanent – flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

What will your responsibilities be?

As a Project Manager, you'll be working within the Kier Transportation team, supporting them on our Oxford Station Phase 2 project which is a truly multi-discipline station upgrade which will increase the station capacity by constructing an additional platform and associated track through the existing operational station.

To facilitate these works we will be replacing an existing railway bridge, constructing two additional new railway bridges, a highway bridge and a footbridge. Highway lowering and realignment will take place to two roads in the vicinity of the station.

As part of the new platform construction, we will undertake demolition and enabling works, construction a new platform canopy, a new western station entrance, ticket office, waiting room, toilets, café and shops, alongside the construction of a subway to connect the western entrance to the new platform.

Your day to day will include:

• Take full ownership and accountability for cost management of your project, ensuring robust control of Target Cost, actual costs, and forecasts through commercial awareness.
• Ensure all labour, plant, materials, and supply chain resources are accurately recorded.
• Identify areas of opportunity and improvement.
• Create a programme to plan and measure the day-to-day activities.
• Drive the implementation and monitoring of Health & Safety policies and procedures in accordance with Kier and Network Rail standards.

What are we looking for?

This role of Project Manager is great for you if:

• Chartered Member of the ICE (or working towards).
• Proven capability working on Network Rail projects, or in a comparable setting.
• Able to take the lead with client interfaces.
• Able to establish project requirements and drive the team to deliver the outcomes in terms of quality, cost and programme.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

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