Contracts/Projects Manager
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Job Description
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Contracts/Projects Manager - Oak Facades
What you will be doing:
An opportunity has arisen for a Contracts/Project Manager to join the team at Galliford Try within our Oak Facades Business.
Joining an established team with a 30 year specialist track record in the Facades industry, you will carry out and oversee project management duties and functions on a range of specialist projects across the UK. Projects include high end residential, high-quality hotels, student accommodation, offices and hospitals as well as traditional residential and commercial developments.
What You Will be Doing:
- Assisting the Operations Manager with the management of sites across the country
- Producing reports for Senior Management/Board
- Managing client and client expectations, planning projects, and ensuring they are programmed to a level of detail necessary for the site team to deliver the scheme without delays
- Ensuring procurement and reconciliation of materials are carried out in accordance with Company procedures to best value and to prevent delays
- Ensuring site team compliance with Company commercial policies and procedures
- Attending tender handover meetings and delivering pre-start meetings to the site team
- Ensuring a commercial plan and end-of-life forecast is in place and monitored monthly for the successful commercial delivery of the project
- Producing and analysing progress reports, updated costs, and forecasts
- Ensuring correct commercial engagement of subcontractors
- Implementing the risk management process, reviewing the risk register, and checking risk controls
- Ensuring weekly review of progress, budget resources, and forward planning are carried out, and lookahead programmes are in place
- Chairing and attending internal and external meetings and ensuring the production of accurate records of any discussions and actions
- Ensuring timely management of both temporary and permanent design to meet the requirements of each project
- Setting the highest possible standards of leadership in the promotion of HS&E procedures and best practice, ensuring compliance with Company procedures and legal obligations
- Maintaining and managing construction sites and subcontractors
- Overseeing and ensuring that HSE-related documents are kept up to date and undertaking senior manager site inspections, ensuring that audits and reports are produced, liaising with the necessary parties
About You:
- A good understanding of PSCAs 1 or 2 stage
- Highly experienced with Façade remediation
- Experience in commercial and residential developments
- Good knowledge of Contract administration (JCT)
- Able to lead and motivate
- Good knowledge of Asta
- Fully IT conversant
- A problem solver and 'thinking out of the box'
What We Can Offer in Return:
With an impressive order book of over £3.2 billion we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long held career goals. You will be joining diverse teams working at a high professional level with exceptional levels of commitment. With an ambitious strategy, we're poised for further growth and success, so if you're committed, talented and enthusiastic, Galliford Try is the right place for you.
We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our 'Be Well' programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice and support for a range of issues.
We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes. Through our Career Paths initiative, individuals receive tailored training and support to fulfil their potential.
Our industry is all about creating talented teams that excel in their areas of expertise. As an employer, we know you are most motivated to give your best when you feel valued and engaged.
Our Agile Working programme empowers you with flexibility in when, where and how you work. Where appropriate, site and office-based employees can take advantage of a wide variety of working practices, offering different amounts of structure, regularity and flexibility to suit your needs as well as those of your wider team.
Our benefits:
We put our people first and our benefits package reflects that by offering a comprehensive range of attractive options to help support your career on top of a competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
- A wide range of corporate discounts
- Cycle to Work schemes
- Comprehensive pension plan
- Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
- Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees and our employee assistance programme also provides free 24/7 support to those who need it
- Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role
About us:
Galliford Try is one of the UK's leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-orientated, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.
Our purpose is to improve people's lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.
For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within Digital Infrastructure business please contact Chloe Phillips on chloe.phillips@gallifordtry.co.uk.
Additional Information:
Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
Don't meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
A full job description for this role is available upon request.
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