Senior Project Manager

at  Ridge Partners LLP

We have an exciting opportunity for someone ready for a new challenge to join our team. We work with world leading blue chip clients, world beating sporting teams, automotive OEM’s, ground-breaking Research & Development organisations, and some of the best academic research institutes.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work on diverse range of projects: Delivery of project management services to clients across various sectors and project stages
• Take a leadership role in the Health and Safety arrangements for projects
• Leadership and management of multidisciplinary teams of internal and external design consultants
• Stakeholder engagement: Effective communicate project expectations to the team members and stakeholders
• Manage existing client relationships and assist in the development of further opportunities
• Establish detailed client’s brief and responsibilities of consultants and specialists
• Establish lines of communication and reporting procedures with the client and within the design team
• Arrange studies and surveys: Arrange feasibility studies, including site surveys, site investigation, site evaluation etc
• Build teams: Advise on/implement the selection and appointment of all necessary consultants and specialists
• Assist clients to obtain statutory consents: Co-ordinate and obtain planning consents and all necessary statutory approvals
• Prepare and maintain the master programme for all pre and post contract activities and monitor progress
• Manage finances from inception to completion, including cash flow forecasts, monitoring project expenditure, and recommendations of payments by client, as well as internal budget and resourcing
• Lead and manage the Design team, including leading on risk and value management
• Interview and select contractors for tendering or negotiation, evaluate tenders received and appoint contractor
• Visit sites and monitor the construction works with regard to quality and conformity to agreed specifications and drawings
• Administer building contracts, including the preparation of all necessary instructions and certificates (JCT / NEC experience)
• Chair progress, co-ordination and project meetings throughout the contract period
• Prepare regular reports to clients on all aspects of the project inspection, scheduling and acceptance of works required under the defects liability and maintenance provisions of the contract
• Day-to-day responsibility for projects
• Provide single point of contact taking responsibility for all aspects of the project and liaise with the client

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS ROLE YOU MUST POSSESS / EVIDENCE:

• Extensive consultancy design development and construction project management experience
• The ability to lead successful delivery of often more than one project and manage client relationships, including business development
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in the use of MS Office and MS Project (or alternative scheduling software) is essential
• Ideally - experience in the higher education sector / heritage / life science sectors (but not essential)
• A degree or equivalent and working towards accreditation under a professional body.
  About you:
  You are an excellent communicator who can articulate complicated issues between our clients and our highly skilled project teams. You need to show ambition and a willingness to work flexibly, both in the office and on-site, whilst demonstrating commercial awareness and exhibiting the ability to lead teams to complete the projects to agreed timelines.
  Ridge is a Built Environment Consultancy. We provide our clients with access to a wide range of integrated expertise and professional disciplines to help them transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.
  Our people make what we do possible, helping us lead the way with quality, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit. That’s why we challenge them to be the best they can be and offer exceptional training and career development opportunities at all levels.
  Ridge and Partners LLP