Senior / Associate Project Manager

Job description

As an active PM in our team, you will:

• Undertake multiple and complex work assignments
• Deliver within timeframes and manage resources to provide exemplary professional services to our clients
• Be comfortable working autonomously and within a team
• Deliver best-in-class services across multiple projects and sectors for a broad range of clients

Your approach will:

• Represent T&A’s company values
• Provide a personal, quality-focused service that delivers upon the client’s business objectives
• Establish strong, supportive, professional relationships with colleagues, clients and wider project teams
• Be built on mutual respect, trust and integrity
• Contribute to Thomas and Adamson’s strategic business growth

Your primary responsibilities will include:

Planning

• Strategic project structuring
• Development of Project Management Plans
• Establishing master programmes, identifying project milestones and project team member responsibilities
• Interrogation of construction programmes, agreeing changes or enhancements

Engaging

• Defining, liaising with and managing key stakeholders
• Establishing, implementing and leading project meetings with all project team members and stakeholder groups
• Producing project correspondence ensuring actions are clearly defined and delivered upon by all project team members within agreed timescales

Procuring

• Producing and issuing scopes of services, request for proposals (RFPs) and other appointment documents
• Actively participating in the preparation of tender documents in conjunction with the internal/external Cost Management department to ensure full and comprehensive understanding of project requirements
• Reviewing and commenting on tender returns from a technical compliance standpoint
• Leading negotiations with contractors to ensure tender costs represent best value

Managing Risk, Delivering Value

• Reviewing and commenting on design packages to ensure compliance with the project brief
• Leading value engineering and risk review workshops
• Compiling and tracking risk mitigation activities and value engineering opportunities
• Assessing contractor’s claims for delay events and working with commercial team members to establish entitlement

Project Administration

• Assessing and reporting on contractor progress and commercial matters during delivery
• Assessing quality on-site and raising instructions for defect rectification when necessary
• Managing the design team to ensure all contract requirements are being fulfilled
• Managing and co-ordinating responses to technical queries or requests for information
• Processing Contract Instructions and other contractually mandated procedures
• Ensuring document management and communications protocols are adhered to

General Duties

• Overseeing, reviewing or approving the work of sub-consultants or directly appointed project team members
• Providing other professional services as directed by the Partner/Director and/or as required by project appointments
• Participating in and delivering professional development and training activities, working continually to further develop knowledge and experience
• Building upon and maintaining company culture
• Mentoring more junior staff
• Networking and supporting business development objectives

Key attributes

• Hands-on, results-orientated and client-centric
• Energised with a strong work ethic
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent written and reporting skills
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and a consummate and organised multi-tasker
• Ability to manage multiple, various, concurrent and conflicting projects
• Ability to build relationships with and manage multiple types of internal and external stakeholders
• Outstanding communication, listening and presentation skills
• Decisive and calm under pressure
• Transparent and accountability-oriented

What do we need from you

• Education to degree level
• 5 years of project management experience
• Preferably a Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) or equivalent
• Demonstrable consultancy project management experience