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Project ManagerCambridgeshire County Council • Huntingdon, England, United Kingdom
Project Manager

Project Manager

Cambridgeshire County Council • Huntingdon, England, United Kingdom
26 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
About the role

We're looking for a motivated and collaborative Project Manager to join our Capital Maintenance Delivery team and help deliver vital infrastructure improvements across Cambridgeshire.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in projects that improve everyday journeys supporting safer, more sustainable, and better-connected communities.

You'll work as part of a dynamic project delivery team, contributing to the successful planning and delivery of transport infrastructure projects across the county.

Your role will involve:
  • Managing the delivery of highway and infrastructure projects from concept through to completion
  • Coordinating with design engineers, contractors, stakeholders, and partners to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time and within budget
  • Preparing clear, high-quality reports and project documentation
  • Monitoring project risks, costs, and performance, reporting progress to programme boards
  • Leading procurement activities and ensuring value for money in project delivery
  • Leading engagement with local communities, councillors, and stakeholders to shape and deliver successful outcomes

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Stuart Rushby, Senior Project Manager Stuart.Rushby@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

What will you be doing?

Your role will involve:
  • Managing the delivery of highway and infrastructure projects from concept through to completion
  • Coordinating with design engineers, contractors, stakeholders, and partners to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time and within budget
  • Preparing clear, high-quality reports and project documentation
  • Monitoring project risks, costs, and performance, reporting progress to programme boards
  • Leading procurement activities and ensuring value for money in project delivery
  • Leading engagement with local communities, councillors, and stakeholders to shape and deliver successful outcomes

About you
Essential skills that will be required include:
  • Experience in project management or civil engineering
  • Proven involvement in delivering infrastructure or similar projects
  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
  • Excellent communication skills-confident working with a wide range of stakeholders
  • Experience of budget monitoring and financial control
  • Ability to work proactively and independently while contributing to a team
  • Commitment to customer service and community engagement
  • Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2 or APM)
  • Experience working with contractors and consultants
  • Understanding of local government processes and political context
  • Knowledge of project management tools (e.g. MS Project or ASTA)

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage...
  • A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
  • Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
  • Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
  • Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
  • Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
  • Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
  • Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
  • Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
  • An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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