Project Manager – Lewisham – Main Contractor – up to £75k – Immediate

Ibex Recruitment now has an immediate requirement for a Project Manager to join one of our clients, to contribute to the completion of a regeneration project based in Lewisham. They are open to candidates who come from a high end residential or hotel background.

Our client is one of the largest family-owned construction companies in the UK. Although they have delivered across the UK, they are best known as London’s builder given their unrivalled reputation for delivering large scale residential, hotel and regeneration schemes in London since their creation in 1974.

Key activities are:

• Client Reporting
• Manage Design and Consultants
• Lead health and safety and sustainability
• Co-ordinate M&E Services
• Manage cost Control.
• Manage Programme and site progress.
• Coordinate and lead sub-contractor packages.
• Manage and organise Ardmore direct labour.
• Contribute to the procurement process for subcontractors.
• Oversee the call-off of materials.
• Manage compliance with Building Control and NHBC

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Take overall responsibility for the construction project. Maintain and enhance relations with the client, professional team, subcontractors, local authority, regulators and the general public. Attend weekly and monthly client meetings and prepare progress reports for the client.
• Manage the cost of construction within the budget allowed and variations agreed with the client and/or Ardmore Directors. Highlight variations from budget for a Directors decision. Review the monthly Contract Value Report (CVR) prepared by the commercial manager. Attend a monthly CVR meeting to explain the position to the Directors.
• Establish the site to provide a good working office and welfare environment in compliance with company norms and legal requirements.
• Manage the allocated site management and administrative personnel and take time to develop them individually to make use of their strengths and address their weaknesses, building them into a loyal team. Aim to inspire them through example.
• Understand and lead the design management process to ensure that information is delivered in good time and of sufficiently robust detail to achieve co-ordination and compliance with the specification, building regulations and supplier’s standards. 
• Take a close interest in the drawings and details provided to ensure that they are appropriate and practical to build, and use that knowledge to brief each supervisor personally.
• Understand the Ardmore quality management system and put in place active measures working through the supervisors to guarantee the quality of the completed work.
• Verify that the tender programme is achievable or modify it by agreement with the Directors to achieve the committed completion date. Identify the critical path and key components or suppliers and review with the commercial manager an achievable procurement schedule.
• Monitor carefully time a d cost and report honestly to the Directors on a monthly basis.
• Take a leadership position in respect of site health and safety and commit personal time and effort in supporting and promoting the health and safety programme.
• Support environmental and sustainability initiatives. Ensure that the site is signed up to Considerate Constructors and that a site waste management plan is produced and updated. Make every effort to keep to standard working hours and minimise nuisance.

If interested, please apply for this role with your most recent CV and we shall be in touch to discuss further details. Please understand that we receive a large volume of CVs daily, so if we have not contacted you within 5 working days you have unfortunately not been successful on this occasion.