68 Project Management jobs in Newbridge, City Of Edinburgh

As a Substations Site Engineer, you will work alongside the Project Manager / Project Director and the wider project team to ensure the successful delivery of high-profile substation projects. Your responsibilities will include: Project Delivery - Managing planning, design, construction, monitoring, commissioning, and project close-out. Technical Leadership - Understanding specified engineered solutions and ensuring their implementation to completion. Site Supervision - Setting people to work and ensuring a right-first-time approach to safely and sustainably deliver projects on time and within budget. Compliance & Quality - Monitoring compliance with customer and project requirements, including cost, quality, safety, and sustainability. People Management - Leading and caring for the site teams, fostering a safe and productive working environment.What you'll be doing

• Attend periodic project reviews / project meetings
• Maintain accurate project records (progress, daily diaries etc.)
• Prepare both internal/external reports and liaise with stakeholder
• Helps to ensure reports provide relevant information to enable informed, cost-
effective decisions in line with overall strategy
• Helps to ensure scope and package assignment supports the team in
coordinated working
• Specify, understand and implement technical information and drawings into
delivery
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm & keep up to date with changes in
legislation
• Responsible for the safety and welfare of the general public, employees and
supply chain
• Support periodic Safety & Environmental Tours/promote observation and safety
initiatives
• Monitor effectiveness of the H&S Management System and suggest
improvement solutions
• Write and understand RAMS
• Identifying, raising and reporting risks and hazards
• Management of subcontractors, including monitoring of contractor attendance
and progress, providing direct instruction and support as necessary, such that contractual arrangements are achieved
• Help to ensure procurement plans are available in line with the overall project
plans, such that material/resources/supply chain can be delivered to meet scheduled deadlines
• Support incident and H&S responses
• Understand, control and issue safety documentation
• Completion of audits
• Setting people to work
• Log and escalate any issues that cannot be resolved at delegated level of
authority
• Follow targets/KPI's in line with project objectives and monitor performance
• Help to ensure assurance activities (audits) are undertaken and take appropriate
action on findings
• Contribute towards workshops that cover the principles of continuous
improvement
• Help to develop, implement and periodically update resource loaded schedules
• Ensure team adopt productivity and project controls techniques
• Monitor progress and implement Short Interval Control processes/hold weekly
meeting
• Ensure production of operational milestones reflect master schedule and
customer expectations
• Coordinate with other project activities and internal functions
• Awareness of cost / budget
• Awareness of commercial impact
• Escalation of commercial change
• Requestion of plant and materials
  
  The following qualities/experience are desirable:
• Experience in implementing safe systems of work
• Experience in managing risks and change processes
• Good understanding of the standard forms of contracts
• Proficient in commercial/project management communications
• Able to communicate effectively both verbal and written with all levels of the
organisation
• Good interpersonal skills that enable working relationships to be developed at
all levels across the business and be able to negotiate and influence
• Able to undertake work in high pressure situations with a flexible attitude
• A record of a solutions-based approach to problem solving
• Demonstrate awareness and support of the benefits of diversity and inclusion
• Identify and drive personal development
• Proficient on O365
The candidate is likely to have the following:
• Holds or working towards a formal qualification in construction/engineering or
equivalent industry experience
• Holds CSCS and SSSTS or equivalent
  
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