Mechanical Project Manager

GR Associates
Willenhall
1 month ago
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Project Manager

This position is a result of significant increase and project wins in the client's mechanical team. Mainly to service a major long‑standing client’s M&E project works.


The Project Manager will assist the Mechanical Department management team in mentoring and upskilling the wider team, retaining and improving existing customer relations.


The role involves commercial responsibility as well as operational delivery, client relationship and high‑quality project execution with a key focus on quality of install.


The role will require close collaboration with numerous stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, including but not limited to designers both internal and external, architects, GML estimating department, key account leads, project commercial teams both in‑house and client side, sub‑contractors, manufacturers and specialist suppliers, client agents, commissioning teams and high‑profile customers. The candidate will be a key contributor from conception, through the design stages, managing the delivery and ensuring that each project is suitably resourced and closed out in a professional manner, to the highest of standards.


Key Responsibilities

  • A keen eye for detail and a continuous drive to deliver quality work.
  • Lead by example, promote the highest of standards with regards to HSEQ best practice, ensuring compliance with company standards, policies, ISO accreditations and legislative requirements in all instances.
  • Confident and effective communication, ability to chair meetings, drive outcomes, ensuring the production of accurate records of discussions, actions and deadlines.
  • Exposure to tenders, liaison with designers, estimating and commercial teams. As noted above, separate teams within the business handle tendering & commercial enquiries; as a client representative, you will be the owner of tenders to ensure they are delivered on time and to the standard expected.
  • Ability to fully understand the client requirement, technical specifications, drawings and project requirement holistically.
  • Good understanding of design and project risks. Identify, manage and elevate risks where necessary. Mitigate risks with sound deployment of sub‑contractors and allocation of CDP's (Contractors Design Portion).
  • Be able to contribute and manage against the sequence of works for the project programme.
  • Ability to drive the project programme, ensuring key milestones are maintained. Ability to foresee potential points of failure and react accordingly.
  • Prepare and present regular progress reports including programme drop lines to project stakeholders.
  • Understanding the importance of the development and submission of RFI's, TQ's, RFIs & Tech Sub's and driving close out of items raised.
  • Ability to make sound business decisions under pressure.
  • A logical and lateral thinker with the ability to problem‑solve.
  • Effective communicator, driven, focused, tenacious and conscientious.
  • Excellent time management, ability to delegate, prioritise key tasks and workload when working to strict deadlines.
  • Good understanding of project governance and the requirement for procedural conformity.
  • Commercially astute, sound awareness of contract terms ensuring adherence, ability to highlight risks, manage variations, delays and EOT requirements, liaising with internal QS's to ensure that the business is commercially protected.
  • Build and maintain good relationships with the customer, framework suppliers and design consultants. Possess the ability to be assertive where required, read the situation and make sound decisions, managing multiple entities both upstream and downstream, acting as a conduit to success.
  • Highly adept at the co‑ordination of work packages, understanding the interaction of trades and the ability to foresee potential issues.
  • Sound knowledge of CDM Regulations, Principal Designer & Principal Contractor responsibilities under appointment.
  • Willingness to learn and adapt to new ways of working.
  • Highlight key commercial risk and mitigation measures.
  • Upskill the wider department team.
  • Carry out PDR's for direct reports.
  • Drive the company's vision, values and work ethic, contributing to the growth of the business.

Values

  • Safety
  • Quality
  • Integrity
  • People


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