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Manchester, GB

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Highly skilled Senior Project Manager with experience delivering multi-discipline major Rail infrastructure projects. Projects include; Northern Powerhouse Rail, East West Rail, Manchester Airport Remodelling, Liverpool Baltic.Current Role: Project Controls Lead on East West Rail.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Package Manager (Design) W1A & W1B, Manchester to Stalybridge, Transpennine Route Upgrade. Multi discipline design package consisting of OLE, Pway, Telecoms, Signalling, Geotech, Civils and Structures.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Package Manager (Design) W1A & W1B, Manchester to Stalybridge, Transpennine Route Upgrade. Multi discipline design package consisting of OLE, Pway, Telecoms, Signalling, Geotech, Civils and Structures.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for all design management delivered through the Alliance on Liverpool Lime Street Resignalling and Remodelling Project, Halton Chord, Domestic CP6 S&C Renewals and several HS2 Schemes.
• Management of the development of domestic and enhancement schemes for allocated annual portfolio of works for GRIP stages 4 and 5. In some instances the accountability will be for GRIP stages 1 to 5. Good knowledge of.
• Manage the requirements of Annual Business Planning, Period Reporting, Change Management, Monitoring of COWD/AFC, Agreement of Target Costs, ensure adequate Authorities are in place.
• Providing a professional, consistent and effective project management service including the use of performance indicators and project reporting systems, whilst delivering regular progress reports on change, including.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Programme Manager, KeolisAmey Metrolink. A 10 year O&M contract for the largest light rail system in the UK: 93 stops across seven lines spanning more than 60 route miles, with two depots and 120 trams.
• Responsible for the delivery of the Transition Programme, ensuring delivery of all contractual requirements and bid commitments.
• Providing strategic guidance to teams and engineers as well as overseeing the progress of the operations.
• Developing efficient strategies while managing staff of different disciplines to produce results in a timely manner.
• Assisting the PMO with the development of plans and procedures ensuring a smooth and seamless delivery of projects.
• Effective co-ordination of the programme’s projects and management of their inter-dependencies including oversight of any risks and issues arising

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Project Manager, One Trafford. The One Trafford Partnership delivers commercial and domestic waste collections, street cleaning, grounds maintenance, highways services, bridges, road safety, street lighting and.
• Project lead on the remodel of the Grounds Maintenance Service, including new structure, work patterns, fleet and plant. Aligned the new structure’s fleet and plant to deliver a saving and hit contract CTC.
• Project Managed the 2017 Performance Plan to deliver considerable savings in excess of £1.9m through 35 individual PIPs. This project is ongoing.
• Introduced innovative methods of working through the introduction of new fleet. This delivered further efficiencies of c£90k pa by removing the reliance on sub-contractors and diverting the work to direct labour.
• Developing a new scheme with the client to be rolled out operationally by Amey – A Garden Waste Subscription Service which will deliver £430k revenue saving in year one on a £800k budget.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Commercial Manager, Yorkshire Water. The Yorkshire Water Contract delivers maintenance and repair work for the whole of the Waste Water network, covering 11,903 km2, 2.4 million households, 52,000km of sewers, 1912.
• Responsibility for weekly P&L reporting and analysis, created the P&L Dashboard to drive efficiencies & value through local weekly actions.
• Supply chain management; setting up of new subcontractors, creating framework agreements and raising works orders.
• Management of subcontractors; analysing, assessing and full payment responsibility.
• Lead on the commercial analysis, providing reports for both the finance and operational teams as well as owning and distributing the weekly profit and loss statements and other monthly commercial processes.
• Implemented a Resource Tracker, recording daily resource numbers split between DLO and Sub-contractors/SLPs to assess high level cost of additional resource.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Business Improvement Manager, Avon and Somerset Courts. Providing Facilities Management services to the Regional Ministry of Justice headquarters, North Somerset Magistrates Court and Bristol Magistrates Court through.
• Identified and developed business opportunities worth c£3m pa, submitting two successful PQQs.
• Achieved a saving of c£36k over the lifetime of the contract by sourcing an alternative helpdesk provider.
• Comprehensive knowledge of working on a PFI contract with full control over the Lifecycle Fund.
• Identified c£100k of extra revenue through Lifecycle & Maintenance reconciliation backdating RPI from over 80 contract variations.
• Account Management support, covering Commercial, HR, Finance, Operations, Lifecycle and CRM.

Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom

• Operations Manager, Hampshire Highways. Highways Maintenance contract for Hampshire County Council. Amey undertakes planned, reactive and emergency maintenance on 9,000km of roads in Hampshire. Total Contract Value.
• Improved the KPIs of C1X and C1A jobs by c30% by review of data and streamlining of processes.
• Created new frame work for the 24 hour emergency priority, presenting to the Business Director and senior Hampshire client staff to be incorporated into the new contract.
• Successfully implemented the Dynamic Scheduler into every depot across the account, which increased the volume of job completions by c20% which increased depot performance value by c10%.
• Created the Hampshire Highways Dashboard. This encompassed visual data of the operational performance of the contract, containing information of the volume and value of jobs, as well as the KPIs and SOM KPIs.

Leeds, United Kingdom

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Master Of Science (Msc), Sustainability (Climate Change), Merit

Thesis titled: "Mitigation of Carbon Emissions from the UK Rail Sector: A Case Study Of Northern Rail"

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Physical Geography, 2:1

Dissertation titled: "Climate Change and Flooding in the British Uplands." President - University of Hull Swimming Club.