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The project:
This role is to work within the higher education sector in the Northwest, based out of the Mace Manchester office to deliver a number of different types of projects from Infrastructure works, enabling, refurbishment, and new build either as part of a growing team or with new clients with the opportunity to be part of a growing sector in the Northwest.
You’ll be responsible for:
- Overseeing project reporting and recording procedures with the client and the professional team and contractor.
- Managing and ensuring integration of multiple workstreams including highways and built environment, monitoring, decant, and enabling projects.
- Monitoring the performance of the professional team and the contractor and reporting to the client.
- Liaising with the professional team and preparing regular/monthly quality, cost, and programme reports.
- Leading on technical negotiations with contractor and consultants.
- Advising the client of any decisions required and obtaining authorization.
- Providing strategic thinking and forward planning to the project across all work streams.
- Setting up and chairing regular professional team, stakeholder, client, and site progress meetings and reporting on weekly project and commercial progress.
- Managing and developing the team to ensure aims are met and staff are supported and motivated.
- Assessing resources available on a regular basis and bringing in additional support/specialist expertise.
- Managing, monitoring, and coordinating all key aspects of the project, including but not limited to, cost, value, risk, logistics, neighbor relations, statutory consents, safety, quality, M&E, design, stakeholder engagement, and environment.
- Establishing and monitoring appropriate project operating procedures and systems, specifically ensuring the quality management plan is being followed and adhered to.
- Ensuring close out and practical completion schedules are completed and issued.
- Implementing where applicable Soft-Landing process from inception to after-care.
- Preparing detailed project plan and providing financial reports on time (forecasts, budgets, income, fees, etc.).
- Establishing and monitoring sustainability goals and reporting internally and externally.
- Working internally with quality managers and finance team.
- Reviewing and highlighting resourcing needs to project director.
- Promoting Mace services to existing clients, seeking opportunity to diversify Mace offer across project management and practices groups.
- Opportunity to provide line management support.
You’ll need to have:
- Proven experience in project management, managing small to medium, and large sized projects.
- Developed communication, presentation, and project planning and development skills.
- Developed budgetary oversight expertise.
- Advanced proficiency in communicating, coordinating activities, and collaborating with stakeholders.
- Proven understanding of project management methodologies and practices.
- Display strong communication and negotiation skills to support the client/customer focus.
- Proactively manage internal budgets and fees, delivering agreed outcomes.
- Proven competency that understands construction methodologies and sequencing.
- Proficient knowledge and expertise in specific sector/market of project/role.
- Relevant technical qualification/certification for project portfolio/s.
- Sound technical expertise in health and safety executive (HSE) rules and specific sector/market regulations relevant to project portfolio.
- Knowledge of consultancy, construction, infrastructure, and property sectors/markets and an understanding of estimating, scheduling, contracts administration, procurement, commercial controls, and reporting.
- Seeks opportunities for implementing improved working practices.
- Seeks out opportunities for service differentiation and implements.
- Manages relevant stakeholders for project/s.
- Develops effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Uses advanced communication skills to collaborate with others to guide others to achieve project key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Good interpersonal skills to prepare reports, negotiate, and build relationships with key stakeholders.
- Problem-solving and analytical skills for resolving planning, estimating, contract administration, and procurement issues within construction and design activities.
You’ll also have:
- Partners with others providing day-to-day project leadership to achieve deliverables.
- May manage teams providing guidance, direction, and coordination.
- Acts as central point of contact for project portfolio for relevant stakeholders, internal and externally.
- Mentors and develops the project team; provides a safe work environment to learn and mature.
- Mentors and develops individuals, sharing knowledge and experience.
- Champions and operates within an inclusivity environment.
- Competencies include interpersonal ability, influencing and negotiation, problem solving and analytical thinking, technology and process, verbal communication, written communication.
- Understands personal strengths and weaknesses, seeks learning and support where appropriate.
Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfill all of the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.
We are also open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.
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