Project Manager - Aviation

About Us

Lendlease Consulting is a trusted advisor and delivery partner of choice for some of the country’s leading public institutions, private companies and government departments. We offer delivery and advisory professional services in programme, project management, cost management, planning, construction and digital engineering. Our experience is wide-ranging across built environment, heritage, healthcare, transport, energy, education and retail sectors.

Join us and discover a world of fresh possibilities every day. As we begin an exciting period of post-covid investment and growth across UK Aviation, we have several new opportunities for Project Manager’s to join our growing team with us at Manchester Airport.

Are you ready to take your career to new heights? As a Lendlease Project Manager, you'll experience the excitement of a dynamic work environment where no two days are the same.

About The Role

We are currently recruiting for Project Manager’s with Aviation project experience who will: -

• Determine project management, technical services and external resources required for the project on an individual and team basis (e.g. additional services).
• Planning, leading and managing a project team to deliver integrated, sustainable, and effective solutions that meet the project brief.
• Establishing strong working relationships with partners and key stakeholders at all levels, ensuring that all requirements are captured with approvals in place.
• End-to-end execution planning and management as you establish clear goals with well-defined roles and deliverables.
• Ensuring a seamless, defined integration of design, development, commissioning delivery and process requirements.
• Reporting of project performance using project control tools, including earned value and quantitative risk analysis.
• Ensuring thorough management of both the deliverables and team safety.
• Collaboratively work with the construction manager/delivery team and/or external resources to ensure the successful delivery of the project in line with all stakeholders’ expectations communicating strategies to the team.
• Manage consultant team and project stakeholders to ensure effective completion of responsibilities including project brief/scope, fees, processing claims, deliverable and/or project variations etc.
• Display strong communication and negotiation skills to support the client/customer focus.
• Ensure the conversion program is maintained and all submissions are completed within the agreed milestone, being proactive with acceleration measures should the program slip.
• Produce design and authorities programme to be integrated with procurement and delivery programme.
• Manage the timely delivery to programme for the concept, schematic, detailed design and design development in accordance with the overall delivery program and agreed on project milestones.
• Assist with the timely sequencing/methodology and production of stating plans.

You will bring

• Experience in complex project delivery within live operational environments.
• Drive focus in all areas of health, safety, quality and environmental matters on projects, challenging where needed.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in project management and/or construction-related discipline, combined with a demonstrable intermediate level of role knowledge.
• Knowledge of Construction and Property industries and an understanding of estimating, scheduling, field supervision, contracts administration, procurement, financial controls and reporting.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills for resolving planning, estimating, contract administration and procurement issues within construction and design activities.
• Good interpersonal skills to prepare reports, negotiate and build relationships with key stakeholders.

Essential Skills

• Proven experience in planning, leading, and managing project teams in a highly regulated environment.
• Extensive knowledge of planning and implementation of complex projects, within a live operational environment, with multiple stakeholder interfaces.
• Proven track record of delivering integrated and sustainable solutions to meet project briefs.
• Leading in Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery.
• A proven background in communicating project deliverables across complex regulated industries.
• Demonstrable experience in leading and influencing across internal and external teams.

Ideally, You'll Also Have

• Familiar with tender documents and negotiations in a large-scale commercial environment.
• Airport experience. We would consider Project Managers with other multi-disciplinary or transport infrastructure experience.

What We Provide

• Flexible and hybrid work options
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Private medical health benefit and dental plan options
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• Wellbeing leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gym’s nation wide

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Belong at Lendlease

We offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity are just the norm. We are a disability inclusive employer. Click here to see our standard recruitment process. If you need any adjustment or changes to the process, email us to let us know if you have a preferred communication method.

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