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The Role of the Project Manager
The role of the Project Manager is to provide project leadership and support to ensure the project management activities are conducted in compliance with Bovis health, safety, and environmental policies. Responsible for providing technical, commercial, and operational support, together with production, quality, operational/site management support and managing costs while creating a supportive and collaborative environment, meeting client expectations, and enhancing the reputation of the Bovis business. The role of the Project Manager is to ensure that an effective and productive liaison is established with respect to all aspects of the project delivery, between the design team, project/site team, commercial, client teams, and supply chain, putting the expertise of all to the best possible use. The Manager will liaise with the Design Manager and will be instrumental in coordinating and guiding the consultant team and supply chain through the delivery of the packages to mitigate design risk and maximize value to the client/business.
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Key Responsibilities
The Project Manager is responsible for providing project leadership and managing the overall execution of construction projects from initiation to completion. This encompasses creating a detailed project strategy, plan, and schedule, and driving the project delivery within that plan to maximize outcomes for the client and the business.
The Project Manager is accountable for the implementation and compliance with all company safety requirements across staff, contractors, and work practices, actively managing and mitigating project risks through comprehensive understanding and collaboration.
Essential Credentials
- Have a related Chartership such as CIOB.
- Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role.
Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours
Essential Skills
- Ability to prepare short, medium, and long-term programmes to establish coordinated strategies to deliver works packages.
- Ability to manage package risks and drive opportunities to maximize value.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical, to clients, supply chain, peers, and stakeholders.
- Demonstrate an ability to be flexible in recognizing where working methods require adapting and changing to suit a change in project needs or new challenges.
- Demonstrate an ability to ensure delivery of work packages and in places, betterment of commercial targets.
- Demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively and lead the construction delivery team and construction workforce.
Essential Knowledge
- Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards, and procedures.
- In-depth knowledge of the construction industry.
- Working knowledge of different forms of contracts.
- Understanding of programme duration and sequencing of works of relevant aspects of construction.
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Essential Experience
- Demonstrable experience of the delivery of construction projects.
- Experience managing multiple supply chains, including sub-contractors and suppliers.
- Experience of dealing with clients, contractors, and construction activities.
- Experience managing consultants to ensure design and quality assurance deliverables are achieved and recorded.
- Design, procurement, construction, and delivery experience.
- Experienced with and capable of being part of a bid team and undertaking pre-construction planning.
- Experience in the design of temporary and permanent works (including BIM, BIW, CAD).
Essential Behaviours
- Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player.
- Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organizational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury.
- Eager to make an impact on the local community to create a lasting legacy.
- Strategic thinking and visionary.
- Develop and maintain relationships with trust and confidence.
We Will Provide:
- Car allowance
- Up to 10% employer pension contribution
- Private medical health benefit
- Enhanced parental leave
- Life assurance
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
- 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
- Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
- 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
- Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gyms nationwide
- Industry-leading parental leave
Please note that due to the nature of this role, national security vetting procedures apply, and a full UK security check will be carried out for the successful candidate. Further details about national security vetting can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK or Vetting explained - GOV.UK.
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