Associate/ Associate Director - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Atkins

Atkins

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

**Location
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Glasgow & Edinburgh

The Atkins UK Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and combines the best in project management and design management to provide a full suite of services to clients in the public and private sectors.

The team is responsible for delivery of design services across our markets of Water Infrastructure, Defence Infrastructure, Nuclear, Aviation, Energy, Rail (stations), and Urban Developments.

We have an exciting new opportunity in Atkins PDP for an
Associate Director or Associate to join our North, Scotland and Northern Ireland practice, based from the Glasgow or Edinburgh office, who wants to take the next step in their career and further their responsibility for the delivery of projects from inception to completion.

You may be a Project Manager looking for the next step or already have experience acting as an Associate Director or Associate (Senior Project Manager) successfully delivering projects from their inception to completion.

Whilst some working from our client offices or other Atkins offices may be required, our advanced agile working practices will enable you to work from home and different locations with ease.

Our need to recruit comes from the success of our division and our pipeline and expected growth within the northern regions across a variety of sectors, predominantly in Nuclear, Defence, and Local Authority to which this role is focused.

In addition, we have strong growth across our wider Water, Rail and Aviation sectors and would also welcome applicants who have experience in these sectors.

A role with Atkins PDP offers the opportunity to work on the full suite of projects that Atkins SNC Lavalin delivers; be it building refurbishment and new build projects; nuclear new build; defence; water projects and many more, which will enable you to demonstrate your project management abilities developed through past experiences.

As an Associate Director or Associate you are likely to have several years of multi-disciplinary project delivery experience, ideally within a consultancy environment and would be responsible for the leadership and the successful delivery of major multi-disciplinary projects from concept through construction and final handover.

As Associate Director or Associate you will be responsible for (but not limited to) the following activities:

The successful delivery of the project to agreed targets, e.g., programme, budget, and quality.
Identifying and agreeing project objectives and developing a strategy for achieving these.
Identifying and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to Atkins.
Leading the project team building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team.
Facilitating communication, coordination and information flow with the Client and within the project team, including any subcontractors and partners (internal and external).
With input from the Discipline Leads, agreeing commercial trading arrangements and communication plan for working with other teams across the business including our Global Technology Centres (GTC) in Bangalore and New Delhi.
Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans.
Protecting the commercial interest of Atkins, including timely and accurate invoicing and effective credit control for optimal cash flow (with the support of the finance community); comparing revenue with predicted costs and identifying risk allowances, margin and provisions at project setup and monthly thereafter, including Earned Value reporting.
Closing out the project on completion, archiving project documentation, updating market information, ensuring that lessons learnt are captured and disseminated internally and ensuring that a Client Satisfaction survey is initiated.

Requirements:

Chartered Engineer/Architect/Project manager or equivalent with demonstrable experience managing design, build and/or operate commissions on large infrastructure projects.
Market sector experience across a range of major projects.
Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contract, in particular NEC3 or 4 and/or bespoke forms of contract.
Experience of managing design projects to time, cost and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.
Selfmotivated and able to work both independently and within a larger multidiscipline team.
Familiar with BIM and has an understanding of 3D modelling tools for design and coordination purposes and the associated Information attributes that can be assigned and managed within the Model.
Customer focused with excellent client relationship management skills.
A hard working and flexible individual, who is a team player, possesses great attention to detail, is reliable, proactive and shows initiative whilst able to keep cool under pressure