Project Manager - Engineering / Water Infrastructure

Kingston Barnes Ltd
Kempston Rural, United Kingdom
10 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 55K

Job location

Kempston Rural, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Microsoft Project
PRINCE2
Reliability Availability Maintainability and Safety Software

Job description

  • Lead multi-disciplinary project teams delivering pump station and pumping infrastructure projects
  • Manage projects throughout the full lifecycle, ensuring control of scope, cost, programme, and risk
  • Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, forecasts, and risk registers
  • Ensure full compliance with CDM 2015, maintaining all required documentation (PCI, CPPs, RAMS, H&S Files, etc.)
  • Coordinate design, procurement, manufacturing, and site installation activities
  • Conduct regular project reviews to monitor progress, performance, and compliance
  • Produce and maintain senior-level project reporting
  • Manage change control processes and communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
  • Support tendering activity with commercial, planning, and risk input
  • Develop team capability through training, mentoring, and succession planning
  • Implement robust resource planning, labour allocation, and forecasting processes
  • Ensure processes and procedures are documented, improved, and consistently followed
  • Drive cost-effective delivery, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and profitability
  • Work closely with sales and engineering to manage technical scopes and client requirements
  • Promote continuous improvement in project delivery and operational excellence

Requirements

Do you have a valid Driving Licence license?, Do you have experience in Project management methodology?, You will be a confident, delivery-focused Project Manager with a strong engineering and mechanical background, comfortable operating in a Tier 1 supplier environment., * Proven experience managing engineering or construction projects within water, infrastructure, or mechanical sectors

  • Experience delivering capital equipment projects
  • Strong understanding of project management methodologies (PRINCE2, APM, or similar)
  • Working knowledge of NEC3 / NEC4 contracts
  • Sound understanding of CDM 2015 regulations
  • Ability to interpret technical scopes, specifications, and engineering requirements
  • Proficient in MS Project or similar planning tools
  • Engineering background or strong technical understanding
  • Full UK driving licence

Skills & Personal Attributes

  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Results-focused, resilient, and self-motivated
  • Highly organised with excellent time and project management capability
  • Commercially aware with strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
  • Detail-oriented with a commitment to deadlines and quality
  • Emotionally intelligent, able to build trust and influence at all levels
  • Decisive, with the ability to see the "big picture"
  • Comfortable constructively challenging ideas and behaviours
  • Collaborative, open, and improvement-driven mindset

Benefits & conditions

  • Salary up to £55,000
  • Office-based role with early finish on Fridays
  • Working hours:
  • Monday-Thursday: 08:00-16:30 (30-minute unpaid lunch)
  • Friday: 08:00-13:30
  • Pension: 3% employer / 5% employee
  • Life Assurance: 4x salary
  • 25 days holiday + option to buy up to 5 additional days
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Enhanced sick pay
  • On-site parking

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