Job Description

The Construction Project Manager at London City Airport will lead strategically important, interconnected projects within a live airport environment, focusing on technical, commercial, and financial management to ensure timely and budgeted delivery. They will support the Head of Projects by developing detailed plans, managing project finances and resources, selecting and coordinating subcontractors, and overseeing the technical execution of a variety of multi-disciplinary projects to achieve sustainable growth for the airport.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the projects through the design, procurement, construction, delivery, and handover stages to achieve desired business outcomes.
• Drive our project teams and associated contractors to deliver the highest levels of health, safety and environmental performance achievable. Coordinate and delivery regular safety engagement across all projects.
• Review contractor Construction, Design & Management (CDM) and Health, Safety & Environmental submittals (including construction phase plans, risk assessments, method statements and work permits) and monitor compliance against accepted plans.
• Identify and mitigate risks that may adversely impact project delivery or present the potential for airport operational disruption.
• Deliver the assigned projects to agreed cost, schedule, and quality requirements, leading the successful handover of assigned projects to the Airport Operations Departments including ensuring all requisite AOR and Handover planning and activities are in place.
• Set standards, manage, motivate, coach and mentor staff within the project teams and wider stakeholder teams.
• Ensure compliance with all legal and statutory obligations applicable, including all standards and code compliance, and required planning permissions.
• Inspect work within relevant discipline to ensure compliance with drawings, specifications, airport standards and statutory regulations.
• Support the technical evaluation of potential contractors and consultants as required.
• Support the Contractor to mobilise, including support to logistics planning and making necessary arrangements to support future delivery plans.
• Manage and positively influence key stakeholders (both internal & external) associated with the project(s).
• Coordinate with wider Airport departments to ensure all works are installed according to accepted design, with all planned works carried out by qualified and approved persons as per airport standards and operating procedures.
• Manage the governance of the projects and implement the airport's processes and best practice, including regular project performance governance presentations to project boards and other reporting forums.
• Lead the Lessons Identified process across all project activities and embed a culture of continuous improvement.

Key Competencies:

• Experience (typically associated with excess of five years' experience) as a programme manager/senior project manager on multi-year projects with a value typically in excess of 20m in a relevant industry.
• Experience of managing multiple, interfacing, concurrent projects highly desirable.
• Experience in leading infrastructure programmes/projects in a live operational environment desirable.
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to motivate, coach, facilitate and create opportunities for learning for others.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate and present complex ideas in a simple way, including to senior stakeholders
• Ability to manage complex, potentially conflicting stakeholder requirements.
• Sound commercial and financial awareness. Knowledge and understanding of contract administration (NEC/JCT) highly desirable.
• Knowledge and understanding of airport/transport environment desirable.

Qualifications:

• Practitioner level in project management (e.g. APM or equivalent).

Working Hours:
Permanent role.
Full Time, hybrid as projects allow.
Benefits:

• Free onsite parking
• Access to discounted Private Medical Insurance for you and immediate family
• Medicash Cash plan
• On site Physiotherapist
• Discounted Gym Membership at many local facilities
• Staff discounts at most of retailers on site & some local restaurants & hotels
• Enrolment into company AE pension scheme
• Access to Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Bereavement Counselling
• Cycle 2 Work salary sacrifice scheme
• Hastee Pay Advances
• 25 Days Annual leave
• LCY Central discount website
• Annual performance related bonus
• Annual Season Ticket Loan
• Holiday Buy scheme (Ability to purchase up to 1 weeks A/L per year)
• Access to Salary Sacrifice Car leasing Scheme

Closing Date: midnight {Expiry Date}
London City Airport is one of the largest private sector employment sites in the London Borough of Newham. We offer a wide range of interesting and challenging career opportunities for the local community.
With over 2,000 employees here, working either directly for London City Airport Limited or for one of our concession partners, airlines, or other business partners on site, the scope for career satisfaction and progression is huge.
London City Airport is an Inclusive Employer.
At London City Airport we respect and celebrate each other's individual differences. We embrace all backgrounds and abilities of all team members and we work closely with our Inclusion Group A Voice for all to ensure we are an inclusive workplace.
Please note that we only ask candidates to go through the necessary security checks (Criminal Record Checks or CRC) once a position has been offered. If you are approached by a third-party site offering to manage the process for you, please ignore it.
London City Airport Ltd is not currently delivering a Graduate Training Programme but we do run a Work Experience Programme. Please to find out more.

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