# Associate or Principal NEC Project Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Cardiff, South Glamorgan
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Associate or Principal NEC Project Manager to lead commissions across Wales, the South West and wider UK. You will work closely with public-sector clients, contractors and WSP's multidisciplinary teams, taking responsibility for the successful delivery and NEC contract management of projects from procurement and design through construction, completion and close-out.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead client-side project and contract management commissions through procurement, design, construction, completion and close-out.

- Act as NEC Project Manager on NEC3 and NEC4 commissions, administering contractual processes including early warnings, compensation events, instructions, programme reviews, payment assessments, completion, defects and close-out.

- Manage programme, scope, cost, risk, change, quality and project governance, providing clear and commercially informed advice to clients.

- Review contractor programmes and delivery plans, identifying risks to successful delivery and agreeing appropriate contractual or management actions.

- Visit and work from project sites as required, engaging with clients, contractors and delivery teams to understand progress, address issues and support safe and successful construction delivery.

- Coordinate multidisciplinary WSP teams, consultants, contractors and stakeholders, chairing project and commercial meetings and maintaining clear, auditable project records through CEMAR or equivalent systems.

- Manage the commercial performance of commissions, including scope, fees, resources, forecasts and additional services.

- Build trusted client relationships while mentoring colleagues, sharing NEC expertise and contributing to bids, frameworks and the continued growth of our Construction Management service.

**Requirements:**

- Strong client-side project or contract management experience within highways, transport, civil engineering, infrastructure or construction.

- Practical experience acting as, or substantially supporting, an NEC Project Manager, with good working knowledge of NEC3 and/or NEC4.

- A strong understanding of NEC contract administration and the responsibilities of the Project Manager through construction, completion and close-out.

- Experience managing programme, scope, cost, risk, change and commercial performance on complex projects.

- Confidence leading multidisciplinary teams and working directly with clients, contractors and project stakeholders.

- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to provide clear, pragmatic advice and make decisions in a live project environment.

- Willingness to travel and work from client offices and construction sites across the region as required by individual commissions.

- NEC Accredited Project Manager status, recognised NEC training and membership of a relevant professional institution such as ICE, APM, RICS or CIOB would be advantageous.

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## Skills

### Required
- NEC3
- NEC4
- Project Management
- Contract Management
- Construction Delivery

### Nice to have
- NEC Accredited Project Manager
- ICE
- APM
- RICS
- CIOB

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