Project Manager (Electrical Engineering)

EllisKnight is looking to hire an electrical engineering Project Manager (Electrical Engineering graduate or masters graduate with 2 years+ post graduation work experience) to join this growing Environmental/Sustainability Consultancy that specialises in technology driven renewable energy & environmental (carbon reduction) solutions for the built environment.
The role will be working with a senior project manager and leading junior project managers in the delivery of client projects. These projects often include 3^rd party organisations, subcontractors and the end clients, so an efficient, proactive and well organised approach is critical to the successful delivery.
This will be a progressive role, offering both the opportunity to further develop your skills, responsibility, future career and earnings.
Essential Qualities:

• Electrical Engineering Graduate or maters graduate (or equivalent)
• Passion for great service and capable of operating on own initiative and driving delivery of specific workloads.
• Logical and pragmatic with a practical approach
• Technically competent, backed up by your studies and experience.
• There can be some fairly technical aspects to the projects so we need someone who can be confident in a technical project environment.
• Excellent communications skills for both written and spoken communications
• Competent with IT and fully conversant with common packages such as Microsoft 365 and able to grasp the use of basic project management tools quickly.
• Based in or near Dorset/Hampshire
• Full driving licence is required due to the remote locations of the sites you will be managing.

Some key duties/responsibilities:

• Managing stakeholders throughout the whole project lifecycle.

• Drafting invitations to tender (ITT), ready for running tender exercises to select sub-contractors and suppliers for a project.
• Managing the tender and evaluation processes. Reporting to the client on the result of the tender exercise.
• Ensuring required contracts are put in place with client, sub-contractors, suppliers and if necessary, finance providers (number/types will depend on nature of project).
• Drafting project programme and payment schedule.
• Ensuring Health and Safety requirements and regulations are met, particularly Construction (Design & Management) (CDM) regulations for notifiable projects
• Managing the delivery of the projects (this is not a site-manager role).
• Ensuring projects are completed to meet specified requirements and any outstanding tasks are completed.
• Confirming all project documentation is produced and training and support is arranged for the client on new equipment.
• Supporting clients with the application for government subsidies and any grants (normally has to be submitted by client but requires input and guidance from us, or from a company sub-contractor).
• Organising internal project-related housekeeping such as correct online filing of all project documents and timely submission of invoices.
• Producing a lessons learned report and engagement in resultant company process improvement.

Highly Desirable Qualities & Experience

• Masters in related Engineering discipline
• Knowledge of the renewables technologies industry

Location

• The project shall be based in Dorchester, Dorset and until April 2022 then other sites within a commutable distance
• It is likely that all projects will be located in the South of England and travel outside of this area is not envisaged.