Project Manager - Civil Engineering

Due to continuous growth, we have a rare and exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our award winning Civil Engineering team based in the North of England with our Head Office located in Preston. We work on projects ranging from £100k to £10m across all sectors of the industry. Our projects have gone on to win awards such as Pooley Bridge and Sugden End Landfill.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the site team and sub-contractors to maintain the highest possible standard of safety and performance at all times and ensure safety is the number one priority of all members of the team.


• Ensure management and monitoring procedures are undertaken to cover all aspects of design, procurement, and works on site.


• Take part in internal and external meetings including but not limited to - site progress, safety, team, design and sub-contract meetings.


• Support and work closely with the commercial team with selection and procurement of sub-contract packages


• Work with the commercial to ensure the contract is administered correctly (predominantly NEC)


• Work with our planner to ensure programmes are updated in accordance with contractual requirements


• Ensure third parties are identified and managed appropriately.


• Input into all necessary reports for internal and external functions


• Review risks and opportunities on projects and implement change where required


About you

Aligned to our ethos and values and reporting into the Operations Director, you will oversee and hold lead responsibility for project(s). Ensure all project deliverables are achieved with regard to safety, quality, programme and cost. Monitor, manage and support site personnel. Liaise with Clients and key members of the supply chain.


• CSCS Site Managers card as a minimum.


• SMSTS qualification.


• Appropriate industry qualifications e.g. BSc, HNC or similar.


• Detailed technical knowledge of construction operations with tier 1 and/or tier 2 industry experience.


• Industry experience in a similar role.


• First Aid at Work.


• Appropriate IT skills


• Excellent communication skills and someone who uses communication in a pro-active and strategic way.


• Commercially astute - applies cost-benefit analysis to all activities, forecasting cost to complete, working on Compensation Events and claims.


• Increases profitability through the innovative handling of complex business and technical problems and implements solutions individually and through others.
  
  Sceptre House Sceptre Way, Bamber Bridge, Walton Summit Centre, Preston PR5 6AW


The Eric Wright Group has a fantastic history. From our beginnings in construction to an award winning group of companies, our reputation is built on our Chairman's founding principles of a company that must be profitable, ethical and farsighted, as a result we have people, community and social value at our heart. As a multi award-winning leader in the UK civil engineering industry, Eric Wright Civil Engineering demonstrates a culture of excellence in the highways, structures, clean and waste water, energy, waste and industrial infrastructure sectors and that ensures long term relationships with our partners and clients.

This is an exciting time for Eric Wright Civil Engineering. If social value and profit for a purpose is important to you, as well as working as part of a wider Group with an experienced and supportive team then this is the role for you.

Competitive Salary

Enhanced annual leave starting at 26 Days + bank holidays rising with service

Company car / car allowance scheme - we are working towards 100% hybrid / electric vehicles.

Learning and development - we offer a range of learning opportunities to develop talent at all levels within our business focussing on technical competence, upskilling, compliance and governance and career development.

Pension - 6.5% employer contribution of your salary into your pension to help you save for the future

BUPA - optional scheme and can include your family to the scheme (50% contribution)

Company sick pay scheme - Up to 20 days full pay in a rolling 12 month period

Group Income Protection - 50% of your salary covered for 3 years for long term illness

Enhanced Paid Family Leave - maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, compassion, bereavement, crisis, emergency dependants, and much more

Hybrid working - manage your own diary, working in the office, at home or out with clients

Onsite Nursery - Our Sceptre Nursery is discounted for our employees and based on site at Head office

Onsite gym - we have a gym on site at Head Office which is free to use

Company Doctor - for when you can't get to see your own or if you have any health concerns

Virtual GP - 24/7 access for when you need to speak to a GP

EAP - Employee Assistance Programme through Health Assured, supporting you and your family with advice, guidance and counselling on a variety of areas such as health, fitness, home life, finances and much more.

Mental Health support - through the Thrive app, approved by the NHS, provides tools, to tackle, prevent and manage common stressors such as sleep, bereavement, work issues etc. Also provides relaxation, breathing and meditation techniques and measures impact.

Savings scheme - Put aside an affordable amount for a rainy day in the future

Recognition awards - awards for long service and special birthdays

A comprehensive health and wellbeing strategy focussed on physical, emotional, financial and career wellbeing

Our Ethos

Working at the Eric Wright Group of companies is truly special. Owned 100% by the Eric Wright Charitable Trust, we are a commercially focused business with a social purpose, which means that after reinvestment in the business, our profit is donated to charity via the Trust. This ownership structure provides a high level of stability for the Group and supports longer-term commercial and charitable strategies. Our reputation is built on our Chairman's founding principles of a company that must be profitable, ethical and farsighted, as a result we have people, community and social value at our heart. The companies across the Group regularly collaborate to deliver outstanding results on bespoke projects for both public and private sector clients.

We are extremely proud of our dedicated, passionate and friendly colleagues who live our values and work hard to make a difference in communities every day.

The Eric Wright Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its employees, contractors and clients and expects its people to share this commitment. Successful applicants may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring (DBS) check or Disclosure Scotland check and to provide proof of their right to work in the UK. We are committed to equal opportunities, inclusion and fairness across all employment opportunities and service delivery. All managers and employees are expected to promote our values to ensure our workplaces and services are inclusive and accessible.

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