Principal Project Manager

On behalf of our client we are recruiting for a Principal Project Manager.

As a Principal Project Manager, you’ll ensure an effective project delivery, striving to achieve established goals and objectives to time, cost and quality. You will be undertaken by a SQEP resource allowing a single point of management contact with customer.

Role and Responsibilities

• Ensuring the successful delivery of a Portfolio of projects of varying value and complexity.
• Ensuring successful financial performance and risk management.
• Managing/Supporting Customer/Stakeholder group through reviews and progress meetings.
• Managing negotiations with Customer/Stakeholder/Sub-Contractor.
• Driving efficiency and best practice, aligning local processes and procedures as applicable.
• Identifying issues, concerns that either have the potential or will impact the project baseline, and implementing effective risk mitigation strategies.

Preferred Role Requirements

The Project Management team encourage diversity of thought and welcome applications of candidates with transferable skills that can be applied to our projects, therefore, there are no minimum role requirements and candidates will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

The preferred role requirements are as follows:

• Hold ‘SC’ UK Security Clearance or willing to obtain.
• Have a minimum of 8 years relevant experience as a Project Manager on a Nuclear site of highly regulated site.
• Have previous experience of managing high value projects.
• Have a degree in Project Management or relevant field.
• Be a member of a recognised professional institution and a chartered status or equivalent professional status is preferred.
• Understand the principles and practices of planning, risk and cost management at programme and project levels.
• Have awareness of the stage-gate principles of project delivery.
• Understand the factors affecting motivation of project team members and techniques for risk management.

Offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Private Medical Insurance at Single, Partner and Family levels
• Non Contributory Pension Scheme
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing by 1 day per year of service up to a cap of 30
• Group Life Assurance of 4 times annual salary and Group Income Protection scheme for long term sickness
• Enhanced Maternity Pay