Project Manager

Location: Witchford, Ely CB6

Hours: Monday – Friday, 7.30am – 5.00pm

Job Type: Full Time / Permanent (office based)

Salary: Competitive Salary - Negotiable depending on experience

Company Benefits: Company pension scheme through NEST, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Private healthcare after six months’ service, use of a company vehicle and company mobile phone.

About The role

This role profile is not exhaustive and will be reviewed periodically to reflect changes in the business, legislation, company procedures and project requirements. The post holder is expected to participate in this process and to carry out reasonable duties consistent with the seniority and purpose of the role.

• Manage, supervise, support and monitor the Site Managers and Project Coordinators allocated to the Project Manager’s projects, ensuring the team works as one coordinated project function.
• Set clear responsibilities, priorities, deadlines and reporting arrangements for the Projects Team and ensure workloads and resources are appropriately managed.
• Read, understand and maintain a working knowledge of the current Site Manager and Project Coordinators Job Descriptions, Duties and Procedures. Ensure team members understand and follow those requirements, project-specific instructions and C D Hood Ltd controlled documents, and check that required tasks, records, evidence and escalation points are being managed correctly.
• Provide instruction, coaching and support to new and existing team members and identify training, competence or performance gaps that require action.
• Carry out regular performance, development and welfare reviews with Site Managers and other direct reports, including any ongoing reviews required to address performance, competence, conduct, support or development needs.
• Participate in and, where allocated, chair probation review meetings for new site-based starters, including Site Managers, carpenters, groundworkers and other site-based employees, ensuring review outcomes, objectives and actions are documented and retained in accordance with company HR arrangements.
• Carry out or contribute to formal staff appraisals for the Site and Project teams and ensure completed appraisal and review records are returned to the appropriate company file / HR record and followed up where actions have been agreed.
• Mentor Site Managers and other site-based team members, providing practical guidance, feedback and support so that company standards, project procedures, leadership expectations and compliance requirements are understood and consistently applied.
• Ensure site-based apprentices receive appropriate supervision, mentoring and practical support throughout their apprenticeship and are not allocated work beyond their competence without suitable supervision.
• Work with Site Managers, mentors, the Projects team and, where required, the relevant college or training provider to place apprentices on suitable projects and work activities so they can develop the required practical skills and obtain appropriate workplace evidence to support their apprenticeship learning.
• Monitor the development of apprentices and other developing site staff, identify gaps in practical experience or evidence, and take reasonable steps to arrange suitable work opportunities, mentoring or additional support.
• Ensure delegated tasks are monitored to completion; delegation does not remove the Project Manager’s responsibility to know what should have been completed, check that the action has been carried out correctly and ensure suitable evidence is retained.
• Use the current Projects Manager / Small Works Manager Duties and Procedures, Project Lifecycle / Responsibility Matrix, Procore records, project reviews and applicable checklists as the management baseline for monitoring the Site Manager and Project Coordinators team at routine, weekly, monthly / periodic, project-start and project-close stages.
• Where monitoring, project reviews, ISO audits or other checks identify omissions or non-compliance, assign corrective action, a responsible person and target date, and follow the matter through to satisfactory evidenced closure.
• Escalate repeated non-compliance, significant competence concerns, serious safety issues or matters outside the Project Manager’s authority or competence to the Managing Director.

Key Duties:

• Principal Contractor, Building Safety and Legal Compliance
• Company Project Acceptance Boundaries
• Health, Safety, Fire and Environmental Management
• Project Start, Planning and Programme Management
• Team Compliance Monitoring and Procore
• Design Information, RFIs and Dutyholder Coordination
• Building Control and Statutory Requirements
• Quality, Products and Workmanship
• Subcontractor and Workforce Management
• Procurement, Variations and Commercial Awareness
• Client, Consultant and Project Communication
• Project Completion, Handover and Defects
• General Administration and Management Reporting
• Continuous Improvement, Procedures, Legislation and Accreditations

Person Specification:

•Strong leadership and people-management skills, with the ability to set expectations, monitor performance and follow actions through to completion.

•Excellent organisational and forward-planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple live projects and competing priorities.

•Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with clients, consultants, employees, subcontractors and suppliers.

• High attention to detail and a strong commitment to Health & Safety, Building Regulations compliance and quality.

•Commercial awareness and the ability to identify programme, procurement and cost risks at an early stage.

•Ability to interpret construction drawings, specifications, programmes and other project information.

•Confident use of Procore and Microsoft Office, or the ability to develop competence in these systems.

•Approachable, professional, positive and able to make timely decisions within delegated authority