Job Description:

Job Title: Parcel Manager

Location: Mountsorrel, Leicestershire - Hybrid as role requires

Salary: Salary dependent on skills, benefits package

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

About us

Danaher & Walsh is a well-established civil engineering contractor with over 50 years of experience delivering complex infrastructure projects across the UK. Based in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, our team of 100+ people work across public realm, pipeline rehabilitation, highways and bridgeworks. We take real pride in how we look after our people, and this role is central to that.

Please note the company does not offer sponsorship and therefore candidates must have the legal right to live and work in the UK to be considered.

About the role:

As a Parcel Manager, you will lead the effective delivery of all regional parcels/programme of works within the IMR WR framework. Accountable for the end to end project management across the programme lifecycle, including responsibility for planning/enablement/resource profiling/risk & opportunity management, change control, and stakeholder engagement. Ensuring the safe and efficient compliant and on-time/on-budget delivery whilst optimising quality and commercial outcomes.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Manage the full life cycle of assigned parcels: initiation, detailed planning, risk/opportunity, contract governance and change management, within local and client led systems
• Resource planning and forecasting; define labour, plant, material requirements and co-ordinate with internal teams/stakeholders to ensure efficient and out performance of agreed productivity measures
• Financial and commercial management; Own budget monitoring, forecasting, earned value reporting, claims/variations management and cost control measures
• Performance management and reporting; Produce regular programme, commercial, risk & KPI reporting for senior stakeholders internally and externally
• Develop maintain and drive the regional programme schedule, ensuring alignment with peers. Monitor progress, highlight dependencies and deliver recovery plans as required
• Lead continuous improvement within both the planning and enablement teams. Capture lessons learnt, apply best practice and support standardisation across parcels.
• Oversee change control; evaluate change requests, lead impact assessments (cost, programme, safety, quality) and manage approvals in accordance with contract and client processes
• Work within the framework and governance of Safer Every Day

What we're looking for:

Qualifications:

• Degree/HND or equivalent in project management (Essential)
• Professional qualification (NEBOSH general, APM/PMI Certification)
• Membership of a relevant professional body

Essential Experience:

• Proven track record of project management working across multi-discipline programmes of work
• Working within an alliance framework within NEC framework
• Can demonstrate risk/opportunity registers, formal change control and client governance reporting

Essential Skills:

• Programme and project planning skills, including critical path analysis and resource loading
• Strong commercial acumen and can demonstrate budgeting, forecasting and contract management
• Risk management capability with practical experience implementing mitigation plans
• Excellent stakeholder management skills internally and externally
• Leadership and people management; ability to motivate multi-disciplinary teams and drive performance
• IT Literate; MS Project/Excel/Sharepoint/Powerpoint and reporting tools (Desirable)
• Problem solving mindset, adaptable and comfortable working in complex, regulated environments (Desirable)

Benefits:

• 25 days holidays + Bank Hols
• Salary Sacrifice pension of 5% & 5%
• Holiday Buy & Sell
• Cash Health Plan
• Death in Service

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Candidates with experience of; Parcel Programme Manager, Project Manager, Programme Parcel Manager, Logistics Project Manager may also be considered for this role