Project Director

Position: Project Director

Location: South East

Salary: up to 130,000

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Project Director to lead the delivery of a major water infrastructure and earthworks programme on behalf of a leading civil engineering contractor. This long-term project involves the design and construction of large-scale water assets, complex earthworks, highways interfaces and environmentally sensitive works.

The role requires a proven leader capable of driving project performance, engaging collaboratively with stakeholders, and ensuring safe and successful delivery across the full lifecycle of a multi-year Design & Build scheme.

• Salary up to 130,000
• Car allowance 7000
• Bonus
• Private healthcare
• Pension up to 10% match
• 25 Days Holiday + BH

• Ensuring the project is delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Providing overall leadership and direction to the project team
• Acting as the primary point of contact with the client's senior leadership
• Managing risk, programme, financial performance and contract obligations
• Chairing progress meetings, steering reviews and collaborative workshops
• Developing and maintaining a high-performing, multi-disciplinary project team
• Overseeing health, safety, wellbeing and environmental performance on site
• Ensuring project KPIs, legacy commitments and stakeholder expectations are met
• Promoting knowledge-sharing and feeding lessons learned into the wider business

• An accomplished senior leader with significant experience in delivering large-scale Design & Build civil engineering projects
• Experience within the water infrastructure, earthworks or major infrastructure sectors.
• Experience managing major projects (80m-150m+)
• Strong client-facing skills and experience working within complex stakeholder environments
• Leadership of large, multi-disciplinary project teams
• Excellent understanding of NEC contracts, project controls and programme management
• Knowledge of BIM and CDE Applications
• Chartered Engineer status (CEng MICE or similar)

Bennett and Game Recruitment are a multi-disciplined technical recruitment agency based in Chichester, West Sussex operating across the UK with specialist teams covering a range of industries.

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