Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
To £90k + Benefits
West London – Multi Storey New Build Residential and Commercial Offices 15 Storeys +
This Senior Project Manager role is with one of the industry's leading, top 10 main contractors.
You will be working on an exciting range of multi-storey residential and commercial office projects in the South East (mainly London) with values between £10M – £60M. As Senior Project Manager, you will be required to have pre-construction and tender experience and work alongside the pre-construction team from the tender stages through to completion. Experience of delivering high rise multi storey residential/commercial buildings of 15+ storeys is key for this role.
Your duties and responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring that the site is organised and that it is always in good order
- To assists and lead on with the various disciplines within the construction processes
- To communicate to the construction team and direct members of the team
- Give direction and instruction to managers and challenge if necessary
- Ensure compliance with Group Safety Policy and Health and Safety Regulations
- To direct the necessary labour, plant, staff and equipment to achieve both plot and project completion on time, to specification and within budget
- Ensure that staff and operatives are managed and led effectively by developing the skills and attitudes of managers leading to provision of a working environment that engenders high morale
- Train and develop team members of the team to meet current and assessed future requirements
- Manage site teams by monitoring performance against contract targets and instigating any necessary corrective actions
- Monitor that the Buying team and Surveying department order the correct materials and sub-contract services in good time to meet contract objectives
- Establish that staff training and development has occurred as plan at annual appraisal and appraisal review stages
- Achieve maximum marks on the twice monthly Health and Safety audit
Health, Safety & Environment
- Understand and communicate the Challenging Beliefs Affecting Behaviour culture within the company
- Enforce and abide by the standards that have been developed by the company through their processes and procedures
- Have or working towards an Environmental understanding, through in house or external training
- Can risk assess a situation and to be able to review RAMS and communicate any issues
- Be involved in the SSER audits and can close out the issues that are raised, if any
- Undertake the pre-start safety processes eg. package pre-start health and safety meetings
- Deliver toolbox talks and safety briefings
- Communicate site safety inductions and briefings
- Register operatives on the biometric induction processes
- Communicate safety alerts and near miss/safety observations and resolve any issues rising from this process
- To undertake accident investigation and recording of incidents and accidents
- Reporting accidents and incidents to relevant parties
- Enforcing site rules and developing the rules on sites where required
- Informing senior management of training requirements and items of safety training that is required to carry out daily duties
- Review and comment on construction practices and report to line manager and communicate with team members
- Can formulate a Construction Phase plan
- Can formulate an Environmental Plan
- Draft a logistic methodology
- To complete a Construction Management Plan
- Involvement with CCS and other schemes such as CLOCS, etc
- Involvement with neighbours and surrounding stake holders
Programmes and progress reporting
- Can build and develop a construction programme
- Can read and understand a construction programme
- Can develop a target programme from the work process and integrate within the main contract programme.
- Understand labour loadings and resource attached to programme
- Can read a design and procurement programme schedule to report on progress on the relevant progress.
- Create a package programme for a sub-contractor with their input
- Install a drop line on a programme to record progress on a weekly basis
Package (sub-contractor) Management
- Ensure that you have either attended or seen and understand the Pre-Order Meeting minutes
- Ensure that the pre-start safety meeting has been held
- Ensure that they have pre-qualified on the Builders Profile system
- Issue a notification to commence
- Have a quality plan in place prior to commence of the package
- Have a ITP from the contractor and that GTB have developed a ITP to ensure hold points etc are in place
- Hold weekly meetings with contractor and record in minutes of meetings
- Issue NCR’s or defects reports to contractor
- Ensure that Technical submissions have been signed off for their materials and plant
- Ensure that they have a installation, procurement and manufacturing programme
- Are they sub-contracting the works, if so this needs recording and investigating
- Sign off completed works and handover procedures.
- Recording progress on schedules and integrating into main project reporting
- Reporting on sub-contractor’s performance and communicating this to others
- Communication with contractor’s supervision and establishing the competency of the on site management
- Understand the content of the works that have been procured
Cost management
- Understand the cost management process and be involved in the process
- Can place orders with buying department for plant and materials
- Update and monitor the on-hire plant
- Issue instruction with back up information when required
- Work with commercial department on monthly valuation
- Understand and assist on variations to the package orders
- Value or option engineer where possible
Technical knowledge
- Have an understanding of the Building regulations, basic knowledge on various sections
- Have an understanding on BREEAM and the management inputs into the assessment
- Have an understanding of the NHBC regulations (on residential developments)
- Have an understanding of Code for Sustainable homes
- Have an understanding planning procedures and the importance of discharge of conditions
- Have an understanding on S106 arrangements
- Have an understanding of Secure By Design
- Have an understanding of British Council of Offices requirements
Quality
- Be able to devise a project quality plan
- Devise a ITP for areas of management
- Record and communicate defect and snagging items
- Understand the interface details on packages and control
- Manage quality issues with external parties
Experience and Qualifications:
- Applicants must have significant experience of working on d