We’re looking for an Project Manager in Complex Civils to join our North West Utilities Team for our Yorkshire Water and Severn Trent contracts. Based from a mixture of our Sheffield office and on our sites you can enjoy knowing that you not only help manage projects that are beneficial for our employees but for the community.

Location: Sheffield - remote working may be available, with travel to the office and sites required

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

Responsibilities

As a Project Manager, you’ll be working within the Kier Utilities North West Team looking after Projects for our clients Yorkshire Water and Severn Trent. You’ll be supporting them in managing works on schemes between £5m-£10m in value on both clean and dirty water treatment plants.

Your day to day will include:

• Provide active positive leadership of Health & Safety on site. Implement site safety documentation & contract plans to achieve the clients’ requirements & specification

• Responsible for driving cultural change into the Delivery/Design Teams to eliminate / minimise physical and nonphysical waste – i.e. recycling techniques and standing time etc

• Oversee the management of site-based Delivery Teams and relevant areas of the supply chain to drive timely completion of projects, safely and within budget

• Work closely with the delivery manager and program planner to proactively manage site performance.

• To actively participate in collaborative planning and project rehearsals to ensure optimal buildability at design stage.

  
  

What are we looking for?

This role of Project Manager is great for you if:

• Have experience in a similar role within the water industry

• Understanding of UK Water regulations along with EUSR Water Hygiene, CSCS Card and SSSTS

  
  

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk to discuss and arrange these.

We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

• new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more

• A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.

• A fantastic matched pension scheme

• Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans.

• 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family

• Kier’s Green Car Scheme

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.

Who is Kier?

As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.

We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.

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 (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here.

Closing Date: 10 June 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.