Project Manager

Description:

Senior Project Manager – London

* Based on a highly complex high profile project

* Central London

* Career progression

* Exceptional earning potential

* Self employed

About the Company: Our client is a regional Civil Engineering and Specialist Groundworks and Frames contractor for the South East with turnover in the region of £35m. Contracts procured involve external works and general civil engineering to the petro retail development sectors. The company has had consistent growth for the past 15 (established in the 1980’s) years and is now recognised as a dominant player in the sector of industry that it operates. Its focus on retaining client relationships is central to growth with a significant amount of turnover generated through repeat business.

Below is a specification on the role and requirements:

Project Manager responsible for the complete life cycle production of a single project from

Pre Construction phase thorough to Hand Over to client/main contractor. Primary

responsible for Safety, Health and Environmental responsibilities under Law

Group Policies.

General Description

Definitive responsibility for Client/Contractor relationship, Project Team management and delegation, contractual administration, program delivery, financial control, resource and task scheduling, RA and MS creation, implementation & monitoring, quality & inspection control, sub-contractor governance and daily on-site project management.

Day to day leadership, direction, decision making and management of the overall Project

Possible site activities requiring a high level of expertise and experience:

Enabling works, Soft Strip and Demolition, Civil and Structural Engineering

Minor and Major Temporary Works and Structural Engineering, Ground works incorporating major earthworks, confined excavations, deep excavations, open cut excavations, drainage, underpinning, piling (all forms), retained walling, retained facades, sub-structure re-engineering, sub and super structures, steelwork up to super structure

Ultimately responsible for ensuring the appropriate management, monitoring and control of Safety, Health and Environmental responsibilities of the Group for all operatives, visiting personnel and general public, Interface and liaise with client/main contractor/s or client/main contractors’

Key Areas of representative, where applicable responsibility

Resource management for plant, transport, materials and personnel

Management and delegation of site based project team to deliver activities against Program and instructed items out of scope Reporting to Senior management on KPI’s, project costs, program progress and targets, resource requirements, out of scope works, deviations from plan, breaches of Safety, Health and Environmental issues Overall responsibility for quality control of on-site activities and delivered products

Sub-Contractor and supplier management thorough strict control mechanisms of contractual agreements, relationship management, program adherence, delivery scheduling, quality monitoring and authoritative procedures.

Environmental management control and monitoring

Project Office control incorporating document management, production information

distribution, contractual reviews, RFI, Method Statements, Risk Assessments, out of

scope works, team meeting management and general reporting.

The management of adhoc variations to scoped works, redistribution of resources,

changes to program, variations to contract, additional authorised works.

Previous Project Management experience essential – above at least 3/5 years.

Preferably from a Civil Engineering Company or well established Specialist Sub

Contractor background

Experience of managing major civil structural engineering and demolition

contracts with a value in the region of £1m to £15m .

High level of experience managing complex and challenging demolition, sub-engineering and civil engineering contracts

Client interface and relationship management essential thorough day to day communication, reporting requirements and periodical meetings/project reviews

Knowledge of contractual management

Proven examples of delivering complex, high cost projects on budget and on

Work Experience

program in demanding circumstances

Demonstrate a consummate ability to manage at a high level Site/Section foreman and their respective teams

Must have relevant Safety experience and qualifications

Proficient knowledge base of Method Statement and Risk Assessment methodology

Demonstrable experience of working in a rail environment highly advantageous

Good experience of Program Management, Cost Control, Project Reporting,

High level of PC literacy and competency of Microsoft product range

Highly advantageous – AutoCAD, Asta Power Project, Livelink, Document Management Systems, Project Reporting Software etc