Associate Director - Project Delivery Practice

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You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. And when you join us, you'll be a part of this genuinely collaborative environment, where everyone's voice is valued and treated equally. We're passionate about what we do, but we don't take ourselves too seriously.

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Réalis Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and combines the best in project management, commercial 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 for an Associate Director to join our North, Scotland and Northern Ireland (NS&NI) practice, based from our Newcastle 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 will be an established Associate Director / Associate, or Senior Project Manager looking for the next step, with proven experience in successfully delivering projects.

This role combines agile working from our NS&NI offices with time at client offices and sites. A role within the Infrastructure PDP offers the opportunity to work on the full suite of projects that Atkins

Réalis delivers, be it refurbishment and new build projects, nuclear new build, defence, water projects and many more, which will enable you to demonstrate and progress your project management skills, knowledge, and experience. As an Associate Director you are likely to have several years of multi-disciplinary infrastructure project delivery experience, ideally within a consultancy environment, and would be responsible for the leadership and the successful delivery of major multi-disciplinary design projects from concept through construction and final handover.

• 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
  
  Réalis, as well as identification of opportunities.
• Leading the project team – building, motivating, maintaining, coaching, guiding and developing the team towards solving problems and making decisions.
• 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 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
  
  Réalis, 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.
• Cognisant delivery of projects and tasks in accordance with the Atkins
  
  Réalis Values, Safety, Integrity, Collaboration, and Innovation.

• Chartered Engineer/Architect/Project Manager or equivalent with demonstrable experience managing…