Senior Project Manager - Highways & Transportation

Atkins Ireland is a member of SNC-Lavalin, one of the world’s leading providers of engineering professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager/Design team leader to take the lead in the delivery of small to large scale road schemes throughout Ireland. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years’ experience, come from a design consultancy background, and have substantial relevant planning, design and construction experience. The candidate will join our busy Highways and Transportation team to be based in our Dublin office. The candidate should be self-motivated, enthusiastic, hardworking, flexible, willing to take responsibility and comfortable being a team lead as part of the role. The role will include winning work, overseeing the delivery of work, client management, financial management, preparation of EIA/CPO and contract documentation and management of construction activities for private and public clients.

Desirable skills/attributes:

• Production and review of designs for projects in accordance with relevant design standards and codes.
• Ensuring the provision of efficient and high-quality engineering services, to a high level of quality assurance.
• Experience in the development of roads schemes (preferably in Ireland) - Preliminary Design, Planning, Detailed Design, Tender Assessment, Construction Supervision through Public Works Contracts and/or NEC.
• Proven ability to lead, manage and work to budget and programme, to control costs and manage change control processes.
• Experience of working with, and managing, small focused technical teams as well as large multi-disciplinary teams.
• First point of contact for clients, contractors, design team and third parties.
• Provide leadership from both a technical delivery and people management perspective.
• Offer support and guidance to more junior members of the team.
• Build client and internal relationships and help identify and develop business opportunities.
• Working with our key clients to maintain and develop excellent professional relationships which can secure repeat business.
• Proven experience effectively managing Clients and other external stakeholders, both technically and commercially.

Personal Qualities:

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Flexible approach with ability to be able to multi-task and prioritise when necessary.
• Positive outlook and approachable manner.
• Well-motivated, able to work as part of a team or alone when required.

About Us:

At Atkins we put Sustainability at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.