Associate Director - Project Delivery Practice

• The successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g., programme, budget, and quality.
• Identifying and agreeing project objectives and developing a strategy for achieving these.
• Identifying and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis, as well as identification of opportunities.
• Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team towards solving problems and making decisions.
• Facilitating communication, co-ordination, and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners (internal and external).
• With input from the Discipline Leads, agreeing commercial trading arrangements and communication plan for working with other teams across the business including our Global Technology Centres (GTC) in Bangalore and New Delhi.
• Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans.
• Protecting the commercial interest of AtkinsRéalis, including timely and accurate invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow (with the support of the finance community), comparing revenue with predicted costs and identifying risk allowances, margin, and provisions – at project set-up and monthly thereafter, including Earned Value reporting.
• Closing out the project on completion, archiving project documentation, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.
• Cognisant delivery of projects and tasks in accordance with the AtkinsRéalis Values, Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, and Innovation.

• Chartered Engineer/Architect/Project Manager or equivalent with demonstrable experience managing the design and/or construction with experience on large infrastructure projects. APM PMQ (or equivalent) recognized level of competence in Project Management – desirable. Market sector experience across a range of major projects.
• Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 or 4 and/or bespoke forms of contract. Experience of managing design projects to time, cost, and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.
• Familiar with BIM and understands 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes and the associated Information attributes that can be assigned and managed within the Model.
• Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills, including the ability to understand client requirements and bring together different AtkinsRéalis capabilities to develop a solution.
• Strong understanding of principles of assurance and compliance as defined and applied within the relevant industry environment.
• Identifies new opportunities and growth propositions and brings value into the business by seeing these through to new work for themselves and others.
• Competent and confident to define the best way forward in a dynamic working environment. Self-motivated and able to work both independently and within a larger multi-discipline team. A hard working and flexible individual, who is a team player, possesses great attention to detail, is reliable, proactive and shows initiative whilst able to keep cool under pressure and when working to often demanding deadlines.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities, including delegation without ambiguity. A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team. Ability to adapt to different cultures and working environments to build rapport with clients.
• Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills both verbal and written. Collaborative approach to delivery of projects and stakeholder management. Be available to travel across the UK and work away from home on client sites when required.

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