Senior Project Director

Job Description

Project Manager - Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Delivery

Location: Chelmsford*

Up to £57,059 per annum

Fixed Term/Secondment (2 years), Full Time

*Hybrid-working role contractually based in Chelmsford. You will work from the Chelmsford office at least one day per week, and across our operational areas on other days, depending on business need.

The postholder will manage the delivery of multiple, high value EV infrastructure contracts. While appointed Charging Point Operators (CPOs) and contractors will undertake physical delivery, the role holder is accountable for ensuring that all delivery proposals, programme activity and outputs are appropriate, compliant, safe, timely, valueformoney and aligned with ECC’s strategic, legal and reputational requirements. The role requires confident decision making, proactive risk management and constructive challenge of suppliers and partners. Working across transport, highways, legal, finance, procurement, communications and sustainability teams, the postholder will translate complex policy, technical and commercial constraints into effective delivery control, enabling the rollout of EV infrastructure at scale and pace across Essex.

Accountabilities

• Lead and manage the end to end client side delivery of EV charging infrastructure contracts, ensuring outputs are delivered on time, within budget and to agreed quality and safety standards.
• Maintain a clear grip on programme scope, milestones, dependencies and critical paths across parallel workstreams, proactively addressing emerging delivery risks or delays.
• Exercise professional judgement to balance cost, programme, safety, quality, community impact and policy objectives when making delivery decisions.
• Be a point of control and assurance for appointed Charging Point Operators, contractors and delivery partners.
• Challenge supplier proposals, methodologies and programmes where they do not meet ECC’s technical, legal, commercial or strategic requirements, securing revisions where necessary.
• Hold suppliers to