Delivery Manager

St. Austell, Cornwall
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Join VVB: Where Quality and Excellence meet

Are you ready to be part of a team that delivers top-notch mechanical, electrical, and telecommunication engineering solutions? Look no further than VVB, where expertise and experience converge to create sustainable solutions across Rail, Highways, Power, and Tunnels.

At VVB, we're more than just engineers - we're collaborators, innovators, and stewards of our environment. Our projects are guided by our CORE values:

C-Care & Collaboration

O-Opportunity & Ownership

R-Responsibility & Respect

E-Excellence & End Result Focus

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What We Offer:

Competitive salaries with yearly appraisals
expenses covered for assignments outside your base location
Perkbox membership for 24/7 access to perks, benefits, discounts, and wellbeing tools
Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance schemes provided by leading providers
Generous pension scheme
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (this includes a Christmas shutdown)
Job Summary:

At VVB we are hiring a Delivery Manager to support out Highways Sector. Working as a Delivery Manager, you'll be delivering Mechanical, Electrical and Technology Projects. Supporting the Project Manager and Head of Sector to develop working teams to safely deliver these projects on time and on budget to the standards of safety and quality expected on Highways infrastructure projects. The role will be client facing and involve representing VVB at meetings with clients and other key stakeholders. This role requires travelling to and from our regional locations, including Saltash.

Key Responsibility's

Providing supporting leadership and project management in all facets of the project activities to deliver the project to meet cost, time and quality requirements (working with Project Managers & Sector Operations Manager and Sector Head)
Understand the commercials of the project and can apply them to ensure margins are achieved.
Working with the Company Construction Leads to ensure that the site works team is correctly staffed with competent personnel to meet company and required safety standards, as well as technical capability to undertake the works.
Responsible for the performance of the project from a delivery perspective, ensuring activities are undertaken inline with the programme and commercial budgets.
Ensure that engineering activities associated with the delivery of the workstream are undertaken in a timely manner and inline with company process and relevant client or national standards.
Developing and managing effective communication and liaison with all relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure that requirements are identified, assessed and appropriately integrated into the project.
Working with the client and reporting to the Project Manager, responsible for helping to establish the strategy and delivery for the project.
Undertaking specific project management tasks at the discretion of the Project Manager as part of the successful delivery strategy for the project. Acting as the Project Manager (and de facto owner of the responsibilities) in their absence.
Further Supporting the Project Management team with the following -

Driving the productivity and all works during the project life cycle.
Working in a client facing role, responsible for leading other team members, developing the clients? strategy, through to assisting in the appointment of the extended professional team of local consultants and contractors.
Developing the clients brief, delivering strategy and leading the design management, procurement and execution of the scheme.
Supervising and supporting Site Teams to develop a high performing team that strives for quality, safety, cost and schedule improvements at every opportunity with all delivery partners, challenging and seeking to improve the project deliverables.
Overseeing that the highest standards of health and safety are considered as a priority through all stages of the project.
Coordinating, planning and managing internal and external meetings in relation to the project.
Driving the procurement of services and works required to deliver the project.
Providing input into client system safety and project risk assessment and management process.
Skills and Experience

Significant experience in managing clients, contractors and coordinating stakeholders.
Experienced within Highways electrical or Technology field
Ability to manage and motivate a team.
Ability to carry a quality inspection and generate onsite solutions to site coordination issues as they arise.
Managing budgets and forecasting expenditure.
Strong knowledge of key project processes such as design principals and management, construction processes, procurement and tendering.
Excellent IT skills in MS Office suite
Strong project management and organisational skills.
Understanding of the industry best practice
Previous working experience in a similar role
Experience working in a client-facing role for a PMC or as a client is essential
Qualifications Required:

Previous working experience in a similar role
Experience working in a client-facing role for a PMC or as a client is essential
Commercial management
Design Management
BIM and CAD (Bentley & Autodesk)
Programme Management
Project Controls
VVB values the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all prospective and current employees with dignity regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. All employees must demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm in promoting the principles of equality in employment and service delivery.

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Job Info
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Job Title:
Delivery Manager
Company:
CV-Library
Location:
St. Austell, Cornwall
Salary:
£60000 - £65000 Per annum
Posted:
Dec 18th 2024
Closes:
Jan 18th 2025
Sector:
Construction
Contract:
Contract
Hours:
Full Time
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