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