Senior Construction & Project Manager

What you’ll do

• Manage a high volume of Development projects.
• Technical project management, advising on technical CapEx investments.
• Support local development and CapEx strategies with a focus on permitting, compliance and cost.
• Help ensure that commercial processes are adhered to across the business unit and actively seek to improve processes and procedures.

Manage the project administration process

• Represent technical project management for all of [Employer hidden]’s regional assets in UK.
• Work closely with third-party property managers to create multiple-year maintenance plan.
• Take care of tendering and project control and planned maintenance.
• Keep detailed records of all transactions with suppliers on a project basis.
• Draft and guide transformations of real estate (redevelopments).
• Inspect and observe work in progress to ensure that procedures followed, and materials used conformed to project specifications and quality standards.
• Ensure Health and Safety systems are in place and followed in all Construction Projects.
• Stay in touch with current and potential tenants (fit-out), map their wishes and requests and handle changes to the leased property.
• Monitor, elaborate and execute the sustainability plan.

Produce reports

• Ensure accuracy of the project reports and communicate accordingly.
• Update and communicate the accrual report.
• Provide reports on actual costs vs. estimate and identify underlying reasons for any variance.
• Ensure financial information for audits is collated and cost assurance processes are followed.

Leadership and Partnership

• Ensure the team can deliver on the demanding program.
• Coach and develop the team.
• Partner with Regional and Centralised teams.

Manage outsourced companies in construction.

• Flexibility to shift from internal to external resources to meet aggressive timelines.
• Partner with the Head of Construction & Project Management and Senior Manager of Procurement to build vendor relationships.
• Rate and draft service agreements and contracts.

What you’ll bring

• Your standout technical track record (+10 years). You can show how you’ve carried urban logistics and industrial development projects from end to end, from pre-development stage through permits, packaging/ tendering, delivery and commercialisation, all the way to the final handover.
• Your relevant experience on construction sites, covering all phases of planning and execution.
• Your competence to build successful organisational capability.
• Outstanding coaching, planning, organisation and communication skills.
• Your analytical skills. You thrive on challenges, problem solving, and coming up with creative solutions.
• Your ability to work under pressure in a challenging and proactive environment.
• You’re a planner, but also hands on. You’re not afraid to jump in and take charge.
• Your network of trusted construction and project management companies, sub-contractors, suppliers, lawyers and technical consultants.
• Your excellent negotiation skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject minimum.
• Familiarity with tools like Yardi, Tableau and budget vs actual tools is a plus.