Project Director, Signalling

Project Director, Rail, Signalling

The Project Director shall be responsible for the overall delivery of projects including E&P, Telecom & Signalling comprising a significant proportion of contract risk and programme complexity. .

You Must....

- Be able to lead and maintain internal programmes and workcycles associated with technology & product development, to ensure visibility & confidence that later major milestones can be met without unnecessary risk
- Be the Safety Leader and a visible leader.
- Ensure effective Safety and Environmental management of the programme ensuring that each of the project delivery functions has systems in place to cover its safety requirements.
- Acts as an ambassador for the Project and the client stakeholder community, taking control and responsibility for the customer satisfaction through the delivery lifecycle and actively managing critical customer issues.
- Providing leadership & direction for a large application engineering team and ensuring their interface with the development and introduction of signalling technology and ensuring the interfaces are supported.
- Interface with the legal, pre-contract team during the mobilisation phase of the project to help the development of project specific execution strategies designed to meet the Clients needs and the business objectives.
- Interface with the Regional Engineering Manager and Technical lead to define Work Packages and mobilise the necessary resources required for the execution of the project. Ensure the project managers under are monitoring the Work Packages against the project plan.
- Ensure the project management team prepare and maintain throughout the project as a live document the Project Management Plan. This will detail the project implementation procedures in line with the Company Management System and the as sold Project Execution strategy.
- Oversee the implementation of Quality Assurance throughout the Project Lifecycle through effective implementation of the Quality Assurance process.
- Contribute to the identification, formulation and achievement of business wide strategic goals.
- Implement systems to monitor progress against the project programme, and budget, identifying and mitigating diverse trends through effective corrective management action.
- Responsibility for programme progress and status throughout the programme lifecycle ensuring timely and accurate reports are prepared as required by the Client.

This shall include:
- Programme Planning and Earned Value based progress analysis and reporting
- Risk analysis and management
- Site Setup & Mobilisation
- Proactive Issue Management
- Detailed Financial analysis and control
- Commercial Management of both Head Contract and Subcontracts.

This is a minimum 6 months contract based in London.

Please apply by submitting CV