Job Title: Rail Project Manager
Location: Glasgow
Hours: Monday to Friday, 42 hours per week, 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM
About the Role:
As a Rail Project Manager you’ll play a vital role in overseeing the planning, execution, and successful completion of rail projects. This includes ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. You will also manage operations within our rail division, with a focus on site lighting across Glasgow and across the northern region
What You’ll Do:
Manage site lighting and rail projects across the northern region
Coordinate shift arrangements and operational tasks for the team.
Monitor and control lighting costs, ensuring financial targets are met.
Develop detailed project plans, schedules, and timelines, ensuring milestones and deadlines are met.
Oversee project budgets, monitor financial performance, and ensure projects are delivered within budget.
Act as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress and addressing any concerns.
Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, and manage risks throughout the project lifecycle.
Ensure all project work meets industry standards, client specifications, and regulatory requirements.
Promote a safety-first culture, ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.
Manage contracts with suppliers and subcontractors, ensuring obligations are met and resolving any issues.
Monitor project progress, adjust plans as needed, and provide regular status reports to senior management.
Manage changes to project scope, schedule, and costs, ensuring they are documented, approved, and communicated.
What You’ll Need:
Proven experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, from initiation to completion, within the tool hire, construction, or rail industry.
Strong ability to build and maintain relationships with clients, contractors, and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and alignment.
Experience in managing project budgets, including cost estimation, tracking expenditures, and meeting financial targets.
Commercially astute and performance-focused, ensuring people strategy supports company growth.
What we offer:
26 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Life assurance
Pension Scheme
Canteen facilities
95% discount across the Speedy brand
Opportunities for training, development and career progression
Voluntary Health Cash Plan
My Staff Shop: discounts and offers for shopping etc. across many suppliers
Green Commute Initiative: Work scheme for cycling
PAM – Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Offers free and confidential support and counselling to help you through matters such as wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management
Speedy operates an industry leading Work Life Balance initiative, demonstrating our commitment to reducing core contracted hours, supporting colleague wellbeing, and identifying more balanced work patterns for our colleagues which is a huge step in realising our ambition of putting our People First. Talk to us about a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements to suit your needs including flexible start/finish times, shorter days, term time hours and job share opportunities.
Speedy offer a Career Line of Sight which enables a detailed understanding of the route to progression and growth within the Speedy Group.
Please be aware Speedy reserves the right to close our vacancies earlier than the listed date if we have received a high level of applications. We would recommend that if you wish to be considered that you complete the application as promptly as possible.
Please be aware that some roles within The Speedy Group UK&I may require a DBS, Credit or Security Clearance Check. The Speedy Group is an equal opportunity employer where we embrace diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.
Link below to our policies in line with our ESG Governance.
https://www.speedyservices.com/esg/governance
All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. All roles within The Speedy Group require proof of right to work in the UK by the start of employment.
