Meldrum Group
Project Manager
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Role Purpose
Provide leadership across multiple projects, ensuring consistent standards of safety, quality, commercial performance, and client satisfaction while supporting the development and performance of site management teams.
This role typically reports to a Contracts Manager.
Key Accountabilities
This will include, but is not limited to, the following:
- Take overall responsibility for operational delivery across multiple concurrent projects.
- Ensure project teams consistently achieve programme, budget, quality, and safety objectives.
- Lead and develop Site Managers, driving accountability, capability, and high performance.
- Monitor resource utilisation across projects and optimise deployment of labour, plant, and subcontractors.
- Ensure robust planning and coordination of works to minimise delays, disruption, and inefficiencies.
- Maintain strategic relationships with clients and key stakeholders across assigned projects.
- Drive compliance with company procedures, governance requirements, and legislative obligations.
- Review project performance, identify trends, and implement improvement actions where necessary.
- Identify and deliver value engineering opportunities to improve project outcomes and profitability.
- Monitor commercial performance, including margins, costs, productivity, and KPI achievement.
- Oversee defect management and project closeout to ensure contractual compliance and client satisfaction.
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General requirements
You will be expected to maintain the highest levels of confidentiality at all times regarding the company and its Clients. You must also work efficiently and safely at all times in accordance with the appropriate training, the Company Safety Policy, and HSE guidelines.
Your ability to relate well with Clients and Staff and to maintain high professional standards is very important, alongside your ability to communicate in a clear, concise manner both in writing and verbally. In doing so, you must also ensure an appropriate standard of dress and personal appearance is maintained at all times.
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You should demonstrate and use initiative to carry out work with minimal supervision, including the skills to prioritise and work to strict deadlines whilst being thorough and paying close attention to detail. This will be reinforced by demonstrating an enthusiastic, flexible, and conscientious approach to work.
Once inducted, you should demonstrate a clear understanding of the Company's structure, values, and procedures, including the QEMS. In relation to this, you must advise your line manager immediately of any visits to site by external agencies such as the Health & Safety Executive, Environmental Health Officers, etc.
The main duties listed above are not intended to be exhaustive and may be revised in accordance with the requirements of the department and the company.
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