13th September, 2024
Senior Project Manager - Construction Sector
Birmingham (with hybrid working)
Competitive salary + car allowance & excellent benefits package
Company Overview
Our client is a well established innovative international real estate and infrastructure consultancy, with offices in Birmingham and other key UK cities who work with a variety of high calibre and long-standing clients across the public and private sector.
They are passionate about making a difference. That means delivering better outcomes for their clients, helping their people to realise their potential, and doing their part to create a green, inclusive and productive world where opportunities are open to all.
They offer independent advice, transforming performance to safeguard the commercial interests of their clients embarking on investment programmes across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources. They are investing heavily into bespoke technology and are ahead of the curve with digital innovation.
As part of their growth plan they are now seeking a Senior Project Manager to join their team of project management professionals delivering real estate projects in Birmingham.
The Role
This role presents an excellent opportunity for a proactive individual to take responsibility for providing all services relating to project management for real estate construction projects within Birmingham.
Main purpose of the role;
- To help coordinate project activities, ensuring good communication and adherence to governance processes from the pre-construction stages through to completion and handover.
- To understand, anticipate, inform and deliver great outcomes for their clients, every time, everywhere.
- To drive exceptional delivery, health & safety, commercial, risk management and quality performance on infrastructure projects throughout the project lifecycle.
Key accountabilities;
- Helping to establish the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
- Identifying and ensuring that the appropriate line manager is aware of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
- Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout the project.
- Project planning, including producing a detailed project plan.
- Advising upon the procurement of resources.
- Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
- Monitoring and applying performance management techniques.
- Managing the change control process.
- Monitoring and advising upon project finances.
- Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
- Preparing formal project progress and other reports.
- Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.
The Candidate The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in a consultancy or developer environment and demonstrate a positive proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.
Essential experience includes;
- Construction related degree or a similar construction related qualification with extensive technical delivery experience in a similar role gained within a consultancy or developer.
- Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills both written and verbal.
Our client want their people to succeed both in work and life. To support this they promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. They are an equal opportunity employer who celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
For more information and confidential conversation about the role please apply now by submitting your CV or contact Chelsea Fox at Tempest Jones direct.
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