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Overview
We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Life Science team in Macclesfield.
The Project Manager will support the delivery of technically challenging projects within a fast-paced framework environment, with a specific focus on design coordination support, construction look-ahead, project variation management, supply chain coordination, and the interface between pre-construction and construction.
A key focus of the role will be to provide a clear and structured construction look-ahead to the operational team. This is an essential part of the duty, ensuring that design information, procurement requirements, technical approvals, client decisions, access constraints, supply chain inputs, and project variations are identified early and coordinated before they affect site delivery.
The role will be involved in several projects at the same time and requires a confident, proactive, and organized Project Manager who is comfortable working in a multi-project environment. The successful candidate will be able to manage competing priorities, design information, procurement constraints, client requirements, and live construction issues concurrently.
The Project Manager will support the Design Manager by coordinating the interface between design, procurement, commercial, supply chain, and construction. The role is intended to strengthen design coordination and construction readiness, but it will not replace the Design Manager’s responsibilities or take over the full design management function.
The Project Manager will act as a key point of contact for design-led project variations, technical coordination, construction look-ahead, supply chain design input, and buildability issues. The role will ensure that design information, procurement requirements, programme constraints, and site delivery requirements are fully coordinated to support smoother progression into construction and effective management of live project issues.
The ideal candidate will have good exposure to M&E works, pharmaceutical environments, and GMP requirements, with the ability to understand and manage technical interfaces in a live operational environment.
Responsibilities
Preconstruction
- Support the pre-construction process by coordinating design, procurement, commercial, and construction inputs.
- Support the Design Manager by helping to identify design gaps, buildability issues, procurement constraints, and construction risks before works commence.
- Assist with the coordination of project programmes, construction look-aheads, design deliverables, and information required schedules.
- Attend design team progress meetings, technical workshops, and project coordination meetings as required.
- Coordinate with Design Managers, Quantity Surveyors, Planners, Construction Managers, and Site Managers to support project readiness before construction start.
- Ensure that key design information required for procurement and construction is identified, tracked, and progressed.
- Support the development of the Project Execution Plan, including coordination of design, programme, procurement, HSEQS, and construction interfaces.
- Identify long-lead items, supplier design requirements, subcontractor design responsibilities, and key approval dates.
- Support the commercial team with early identification of change, scope gaps, assumptions, exclusions, and potential project variation items.
Construction & Design Interface
- Support the coordination between pre-construction, design, procurement, commercial, and construction teams for allocated projects.
- Provide the operational team with a clear construction look-ahead, identifying design, procurement, technical, supply chain, and client decision requirements in advance of planned works.
- Support the Design Manager with coordination of design information required for construction, without replacing the formal design management role.
- Act as a key point of contact for design-led project variations and technical change coordination.
- Prepare, manage, and maintain a construction/design look-ahead covering design deliverables, procurement requirements, technical approvals, client decisions, and supply chain dependencies.
- Coordinate project variations where design input, supply chain input, cost impact, programme impact, or construction sequencing is required.
- Manage the flow of information between designers, consultants, subcontractors, suppliers, commercial team, and site delivery team.
- Review buildability and identify construction methods or design solutions that may provide programme, commercial, or delivery advantage.
- Support the construction team by ensuring design and technical issues are anticipated, coordinated, and closed out before they affect site progress.
- Coordinate subcontractor and supplier design information, technical submissions, design responsibilities, and interface requirements.
- Support subcontractor pre-order meetings and progress meetings where design, procurement, or technical coordination is required.
- Ensure design clarifications, RFIs, technical queries, and client decisions are tracked, progressed, and closed out.
- Monitor design and procurement progress against the construction programme and escalate risks where information or approvals may delay the works.
- Support the Senior Site Manager in resolving live project issues related to design, procurement, buildability, or technical coordination.
- Work with the Quantity Surveyor to assess the commercial and programme impact of project variations.
- Protect the company’s contractual position by ensuring instructions, notices, assumptions, exclusions, design responsibilities, and change records are clearly documented.
- Ensure design-led changes are communicated clearly to the delivery team and incorporated into the construction look-ahead.
- Support the preparation of monthly project reports, including design risks, variation status, procurement constraints, live issues, and required client decisions.
- Contribute to HSEQS performance by ensuring design and construction interfaces are properly coordinated and that risks are identified before works commence.
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Project Variations
- Act as the dedicated point of contact for project variations, particularly where design coordination, supply chain input, or technical assessment is required.
- Review each variation to identify impact on design, procurement, programme, cost, construction sequencing, access, permits, RAMS, and client operations.
- Coordinate required input from the Design Manager, designers, consultants, supply chain, commercial team, and construction team.
- Ensure variations are properly defined before being issued for pricing or progressed into delivery.
- Ensure variation impacts are captured within the construction look-ahead and communicated to the operational team in advance.
- Maintain a project variation tracker, including status, actions, assumptions, exclusions, required decisions, and approval dates.
- Support the commercial team with technical information required for quotation, cost assessment, change control, and commercial reporting.
- Escalate unresolved variation issues where they may affect programme, cost, procurement, or delivery.
Supply Chain Coordination
- Coordinate supply chain engagement where technical, design, or procurement input is required.
- Ensure subcontractor and supplier design requirements are identified early and aligned with the construction programme.
- Coordinate technical submissions, material approvals, lead-in periods, and supplier information requirements.
- Review supply chain proposals for buildability, compliance, interface risks, and programme impact.
- Work with procurement and commercial teams to ensure procurement decisions reflect design and delivery requirements.
- Identify and escalate supply chain risks that may affect construction readiness or live project delivery.
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Framework and Multi-Project Delivery
- Work within a fast-paced framework environment, managing several projects at the same time.
- Prioritise workload across multiple live and pre-construction projects.
- Manage competing deadlines, urgent client requirements, design issues, procurement constraints, and construction queries.
- Maintain a clear and consistent look-ahead across allocated projects to support the operational team and reduce delivery risk.
- Maintain clear communication with the wider project team to ensure actions, risks, and decisions are visible and progressed.
- Support consistent project controls across the framework, including trackers, look-aheads, reporting, and change management processes.
Post Construction
- Support the close-out of design-related defects, outstanding technical queries, and incomplete design information.
- Assist with lessons learned where recurring design, procurement, or variation issues are identified across the framework.
- Support the preparation of information required for final account where design changes, variations, or technical issues have impacted the works.
Experience
Essential
- Strong experience in project management within construction, pharmaceutical, industrial, infrastructure, or complex live operational environments.
- Good exposure to M&E works, pharmaceutical environments, and GMP requirements.
- Strong understanding of pre-construction, design coordination, procurement, and construction delivery processes.
- Experience supporting Design Managers and coordinating design interfaces without replacing the formal design management function.
- Experience providing construction look-aheads to operational teams across multiple projects.
- Strong commercial awareness, particularly in relation to variations, change control, scope gaps, and protection of contractual position.
- Ability to manage interfaces with designers, consultants, subcontractors, and suppliers through others.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Analytical, methodical, and action-focused.
Qualifications
Essential
- Academic and/or professional qualification in a construction-related subject.
- CSCS for Managers.
- SMSTS.
- CDM awareness.
- Good understanding of construction planning and temporary works interfaces.
- Experience with project reporting, design trackers, variation trackers, and construction look-aheads.
Desirable
- Chartered status or working towards chartered status.
- NEC 4 contract training.
- Design coordination or design management awareness.
- Temporary Works awareness.
- BIM awareness.
- NEBOSH Certificate or equivalent H&S qualification.
- Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences, industrial, M&E, or GMP-controlled environments.
Additional Information
- 26 days annual leave
- Pension and benefits
- Unlimited learning and development opportunities
- Much more
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