Delivery Manager

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

Join us in shaping the future of infrastructure while upholding these values at every turn.

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 our 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 Responsibilities:

• 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).
• Understanding the commercials of the project and applying 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 in line with the programme and commercial budgets.
• Ensuring that engineering activities associated with the delivery of the workstream are undertaken in a timely manner and in line with company processes 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 processes.

Skills and Experience:

• Significant experience in managing clients, contractors, and coordinating stakeholders.
• Experience within Highways electrical or Technology field.
• Ability to manage and motivate a team.
• Ability to carry out quality inspections 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 principles and management, construction processes, procurement, and tendering.
• Excellent IT skills in MS Office suite.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.
• Understanding of the industry best practices.
• 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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