Site Delivery Manager

Job Description

Site Delivery Manager – 12 months FTC

We're thrilled to announce that Arqiva is hiring within the Water team! We are on the look out for an experienced end-to-end Site Delivery Manager (12 months FTC) with experience in the mobile telecoms space. In this role you will work across; acquisition, design and build, utilising and developing your project management skill within a fast paced growing market sector, and within a supportive, growth-orientated environment at Arqiva

Location We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment with the candidate required to travel to a local Arqiva office up to twice a week (Crawley Court Winchester, London, Huddersfield)

We offer

• 12 months FTC
• Up to £64K base salary
• 10% Bonus
• 5% pension contribution
• Private Medical
• 25 days annual leave
• Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
• Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
  
  

Accountabilities

• Accountable as key interface for suppliers in the Utilities technical site delivery team
• Support customer engagement, scoping, planning, and leading execution of site delivery
• Collaborating with technical SMEs in aiding the delivery of new site builds
• Site design approval authority whilst engaging with the product and architecture team to ensure design compliance
• Use established delivery framework to drive, schedule and manage technical delivery as per implementation plan.
• Define the scope, goals and deliverables for the rollout.
• Define the tasks and resources required to deliver the roll out and produce a comprehensive plan establishing timelines, dependencies and critical paths
• Identify and assign the team members required to deliver the plan (resource planning)
• Manage the budget
• Support customer relationships and interactions across the site roll out, providing regular progress reports and responding to customer feedback
• Track progress against deliverables and report progress to all stakeholders
• Use defined Arqiva processes to manage changes to project scope, risks, issues and overall project governance
• Deliver an effective handover to the customer ensuring capability to maintain agreed standards of performance
• Manage 3rd party suppliers and ensure their standards of delivery, timeliness and documentation are aligned to requirements
• Drive innovation, both small and large, into and through the business; deploy a continuous improvement (CI) mind-set
• Bring a commercial perspective to the operation, with a particular focus on cash management, cash preservation and optimising returns on investments made in assets and tools.
  
  

Qualifications

• Preferably a Bachelors in an Engineering discipline / HND or equivalent or relevant experience.
• Minimum of relevant entry level project management qualification such as APM Project Management Fundamentals or Prince 2 Foundation or demonstrable experience.
  
  

Experience/Expertise

• Must have end to end site delivery experience (Acquisition, Design and Build.
• Ideally have experience in building new street works
• Track record of leading a team of multi-disciplined areas in the delivery of site rollout
• Ability to manage the allocation of resources to projects effectively and efficiently.
• Experience of risk and change management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management lifecycles, project governance, methodologies/frameworks and processes.
• Experience in site rollout delivery in Utilities, Cellular data communications or similar would be a distinct advantage
• Experience in working with suppliers – both developing services/capabilities and driving 3rd parties to resolve and fix.
  
  

Technical / Professional Skillset(s)

• Knowledge of technologies involved in Utility site rollout
  
  

Why join Arqiva? We are the undisputed leader in UK TV and radio broadcast, and the UK’s leading Smart utilities platform. This means we have a strong heritage and foundation for future growth for you to grow your career with us.

Our journey is to transition global media distribution to cloud solutions, where we aim to double our revenue and continue to grow by being an innovator of scalable solutions for new connectivity sectors. We have opportunities in new technology applications and products, you will have opportunities to learn and develop with us.

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