IT Project Practice Lead (5059)
Laing O'Rourke
Date: 6 days ago
City: Dartford
Contract type: Full time
We have an exciting opportunity for an IT Project Management Practice Lead (Job Grade 6) to be based out of our Dartford office.
Are you interested in joining an international engineering & construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia?
Laing O'Rourke offer a true end-to-end service – we invest, define, design, manufacture, deliver & operate across a broad spectrum of exciting projects for our customers – providing the right environments to accommodate, educate, employ, transport, care for and sustain communities.
What will the role involve?
Role
The purpose of this role is to inspire & lead a team that continues a step change in project management capability for Laing O'Rourke through:
Project management/leadership is a critical capability to enable delivery of project initiatives to ensure business outcomes can be achieved, through orchestration of people, process, technology and data in a seamless manner, depending upon the type of project solution being delivered.
With an average Capex profile of circa £12m pa, strong project management is critical to lead business & technology teams through the project process, to ensure agreed commitments can be delivered.
Key Accountabilities
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [email protected]
Are you interested in joining an international engineering & construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia?
Laing O'Rourke offer a true end-to-end service – we invest, define, design, manufacture, deliver & operate across a broad spectrum of exciting projects for our customers – providing the right environments to accommodate, educate, employ, transport, care for and sustain communities.
What will the role involve?
Role
The purpose of this role is to inspire & lead a team that continues a step change in project management capability for Laing O'Rourke through:
Project management/leadership is a critical capability to enable delivery of project initiatives to ensure business outcomes can be achieved, through orchestration of people, process, technology and data in a seamless manner, depending upon the type of project solution being delivered.
With an average Capex profile of circa £12m pa, strong project management is critical to lead business & technology teams through the project process, to ensure agreed commitments can be delivered.
Key Accountabilities
- Direct & lead Laing O'Rourke's Project delivery method practices and procedures, along with appropriate strategies, policies, frameworks and governance processes, and embedding into the team's ways of working.
- Direct & lead the IT Project management team in Laing O'Rourke's Europe hub to deliver outstanding project management across the projects in the portfolio
- Line manage the IT Project management team, including performance and compliance to Laing O'Rourke's working practices.
- Influence peer roles (Programme leaders, Design leads, Architecture leads) on Project delivery making, while retaining ultimate accountability for successful delivery
- Work alongside the Business sponsors to ensure successful delivery of business benefits through the use of best practice project management capability
- Be the advocate of a Product centric approach and enablement methodologies
- Develop active management of relationship with key stakeholders to enable IT to be seen as a ‘trusted partner' and the default go-to delivery capability within LOR
- Previous experience of setting up and driving the Project management team in a similar or equivalent environment to Laing O'Rourke
- Significant experience of IT Project management/delivery leadership using differing delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, DevOps) in a complex environment, leading different delivery teams from build to buy.
- Preferably 10+ years' experience of project delivery leadership in a complex multi-site environment with relevant qualifications
- Significant experienced in project management techniques, ideally with formal accreditation by industry bodies or certifications i.e., APM, MSP
About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email [email protected]
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