Senior Project Manager / Framework Coordinator

AtkinsRéalis is one of the world's leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.
We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to work as Framework Coordinator within our Aviation team in Dublin. The role includes a blended location with time in our client office and our Dublin office, with some home working also potentially available. The successful candidate will lead the multidisciplined team and work on a variety of building and site development projects across the aviation sector. The successful candidate should be chartered and have experience working in a design consultancy leading multi-disciplined design teams.
The Senior Project Manager / Framework Coordinator will be responsible for (but not limited to) the following activities: Management of multi-disciplined design teams to the successful delivery of the project to agreed targets (i.e., programme, budget, and quality).Management of Project Managers of multi-disciplined design teams to the successful delivery of projects.Making effective decisions regarding resource/project prioritisation when required.Financial management of design cost input on projects.Coordination of bids including financial and quality submissions.Delivery of a project from initial client engagement, through bid stage, design, construction, and handover.Identifying and agreeing project objectives with the Project Director and developing a strategy for achieving these.Identifying, escalating, and managing any matters that could pose a potential contractual/commercial risk to AtkinsRéalis to the Project Director (PD) at the earliest opportunity.Setting objectives and defining tasks for the project team (including internal and external agreements), delegating authority, and agreeing how risks will be shared (with PD) as necessary.Actively managing the project – both technically and financially, in accordance with corporate and business policies, directives, guidance, and procedures. Monitoring and reporting performance against programme, technical quality, financial and KPI targets; taking, or advising the PD on the requirements for, any necessary mitigation actions to prevent targets from being missed, controlling change, and managing an effective change control process.Acting as the lead point of contact between the design team and the Client, Contract Administrator, and Contractor.Implementation of Quality Assurance procedures and acting as final approver on information in advance of issue.Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding, and developing the team; providing regular feedback to all team members and ensuring staff have the necessary H&S training for discharging their design duties and defining line of communication and responsibilities for co-ordination within the project.Facilitating communication, co-ordination, 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 plans for working with other teams, issuing Task Orders to all internal teams and purchase orders to external teams; agreeing resource levels, project personnel, and milestones internally (with the project delivery team) and externally (with the Client and other project contributors) and establishing a 'bottom-up' estimate of project costs.Assembling and owning the project delivery programme and delivery plans; providing project reports on a regular basis to convey cost and schedule information (monthly Client report, in a timely manner, as required internally or externally).Protecting the commercial interests of AtkinsRéalis, 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 set-up 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.The Individual: Chartered Engineer/Architect or equivalent with experience managing design commissions on large infrastructure projects.Experience in a design consultancy office managing design teams is essential.Experience in Client-facing leading roles in delivery of multiple projects simultaneously.Experience across a range of building and site development construction projects.Excellent interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills both verbal and written.A hardworking and flexible individual, who is a team player, possesses great attention to detail, is reliable, proactive, and shows initiative while able to keep cool under pressure and when working to often demanding deadlines.Ability to manage and motivate a team and demonstrate good leadership qualities.Understands and has experience in deploying various forms of construction contracts, in particular NEC3.Experienced at preparing Scope Definition papers, Project Execution Plans, Risk Registers, Change Control Logs, and Client & Stakeholder Management plans.Experience of managing design projects to time, cost, and quality objectives and familiar with programming and earned value techniques.Self-motivated and able to work both independently and within a larger multi-discipline team.Familiar with BIM and understands the use of CDE for design and coordination purposes.A high expectation of performance for themselves and other members of the team.Customer-focused with excellent client relationship management skills.A supportive and encouraging approach to mentoring less experienced members of the team.Ability to adapt to different cultures and working environments to build rapport with clients.About Us: At AtkinsRéalis, we put Environment, Sustainability, and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we're always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.
We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive, and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

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