Senior Project Manager 1
Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.
For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.
Context
SYSTRA Ltd is seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage and deliver complex projects, ensuring safe, timely and cost-effective outcomes in line with client and business expectations. The role is responsible for leading multidisciplinary project teams and overseeing contract delivery, while fostering collaboration and maintaining high standards of safety and performance.
This opportunity is ideal for an experienced project leader who can combine strong delivery capability with commercial awareness, stakeholder management and effective team leadership across demanding project environments.
Missions/Main Duties
- Lead the day-to-day management and delivery of projects, ensuring scope, schedule, budget and quality targets are achieved.
- Prepare and adhere to Project Execution Plans, aligning team activities and ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory and SYSTRA processes such as PMS.
- Apply robust change and resource management, addressing resource conflicts as needed.
- Monitor and report project performance, budgets and forecasts, ensuring cash flow and billing are accurate and timely.
- Manage internal and external project meetings, ensuring regular and effective communication with clients and project teams.
- Proactively identify and resolve project delivery issues, escalating risks and priorities as needed.
- Enforce all SYSTRA and statutory safety, environmental and CDM regulations.
- Demonstrate behaviours aligned with SYSTRA’s behavioural framework by actively fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, respect and empowerment, contributing to an environment where colleagues can thrive, achieve and grow together.
Profile/Skills
- APM chartership, or a clear willingness to work toward it.
- NEC4 PM Accreditation, or willingness to work towards it.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate clear, concise and accurate information in all formats.
- Strong analytical thinking, with the ability to tackle issues and problems logically and step by step.
- Strong presentation, facilitation and negotiation skills for meetings and workshops.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, demands and timelines through strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong knowledge of risk and issue management, finance, contract and cost control in project settings.
- Good understanding of project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Agile.
- Sound commercial and contractual understanding, ideally across commonly used Construction Industry contracts.
- Familiarity with statutory, safety and environmental regulations relevant to rail and infrastructure projects.
- Experience within the rail, transport or infrastructure sector, with a proven record of managing complex projects to time, cost and quality targets.
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, including matrix line management.
- Successful track record in resource coordination, financial control, baselined forecasting, risk escalation and project change management.
- Demonstrable experience in leading project meetings, stakeholder consultations and change initiatives.
- Membership of the Association for Project Management (APM), or another recognised project management professional body, is an advantage.
- Evidence of ongoing CPD and willingness to undertake further training.
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), SharePoint, ProjectWise and general project management software.
Why SYSTRA?
Our three core values: Excellence, Connected Teams and Bold Leadership are kept at the heart of everything we do. We strive for the highest levels of technical excellence, achieving the best results through teamwork, both locally and internationally, and reward innovative thinking through encouraging all colleagues to think as leaders. We offer clear and well supported pathways for career development and qualification attainment, a competitive remuneration package including a bonus and private healthcare, an electric car scheme and a broad suite of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
Flexibility
Because we value who you are as much as what you do, we want you to feel supported at work. We offer hybrid working, balancing the benefits of working from home with time in our modern, well-equipped offices for that crucial in-person contact, team development and collaborative working. We also recognise that life doesn’t always run to the same schedule for everyone, so we have a dedicated flexible working policy to support you in tailoring your work life to reach your full potential, for more details on this, please get in touch.
Diversity & Inclusion
We provide a warm welcome and encourage applications from a diverse range of people who can enrich our company and offer perspectives which will drive better solutions in a truly inclusive environment. Our employee led working groups and clearly defined strategy help us to keep at the leading edge of important issues and keep us accountable. We want our colleagues to feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work and continually seek new ideas and contributions to ensure we continue to grow and develop in this space.
Wellbeing
It’s no surprise that people do their best work when they feel physically and mentally supported. Our SYSTRA Wellness Programme offers a wide range of support; from Wellness champions, to free health checks, healthy eating workshops and regular seminars, alongside access to a wide range of external support. We offer two paid days for charity work and an ever-growing social calendar.
Apply and find out more about how Systra can support you in your career journey. If you require any adjustments or financial assistance to support you in your application or interview process please email:
reasonableadjustments@systra.com where your request will be treated confidentially and with respect. We pledge to offer an interview to any candidates with a disability who apply for a role and meet the minimum criteria.
As we are always looking to expand our team, we would still be interested in hearing from you if you fulfil most, but not all, of the relevant criteria for the role – you could still be just what we are looking for.