Electrical Project Manager Small Works Projects

Salary - £70k to £75k

Travel Allowance

Following 12 months of continuous employment, you are entitled to become a beneficiary of the Employee-Owned Trust (EOT) scheme.

Private Healthcare.

Private Dental Insurance.

Life Insurance.

Pension Scheme.

Length of Service reward scheme.

Tradepoint discount scheme.

Private Financial Advice.

The client is a well-established turnkey Principal Building Services & Engineering Contractor with a turnover of c£80m. This has been achieved by working collaboratively with clients to understand their needs and become an extension of their business, expanding service offerings and geography to meet the expectations required.

They are currently looking to hire a Small Works Electrical Project Manager to join their Term Contracts Division in London. The correct candidate will have proven experience delivering projects ranging from £50k through to £500k within Commercial or Critical Environments. They need this candidate to be flexible with travel as they will be in charge of an array of different projects across different locations as far as Northampton (once a week).

Key Responsibilities:

• Proven track record of delivering Electrical projects to an extremely high standard.
• Possessing a professional demeanour, client facing and with a keen focus on customer care in all instances.
• Confident and effective communication, ability to chair meetings, driving outcomes, ensuring the production of accurate records of discussions, actions and deadlines.
• Exposure to ITTs, liaison with designers, estimating and commercial teams.
• Ability to fully understand the client requirement, technical specifications, drawings and project requirement holistically.
• Experience in the RIBA design, delivery, and project commissioning stages.
• Good understanding of design and project risks. Identify, manage and escalate risks where necessary.
• 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.
• Familiarity with producing onsite dilapidations and completion of validations.
• Understanding the importance of the development and submission of RFIs, TQs and driving close out of items raised.
• Familiar with Technical Submission procedures and sign off.
• Ability to make sound business decisions under pressure.
• 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 the contract terms ensuring adherence, ability to highlight risks, manage variations, delays and EOT requirements, liaising with internal QSs to ensure that the business is commercially protected.
• Good understanding of JCT and NEC contracts desirable.
• Build and maintain good relationships with the customer, framework suppliers and design consultants. Possess the ability to be assertive where required.
• Able to read the situation and make sound decisions, managing multiple entities both up and downstream, being the conduit to success.
• Highly adept at the co-ordination of work packages, understanding the interaction of trades and the ability to foresee potential issues.
• 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.
• Sound knowledge of CDM Regulations, Principal Designer & Principal Contractor responsibilities.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new ways of working.
• Drive the company’s vision, values and work ethic, contributing to the growth of the business.

The Successful Electrical Project Manager Role:

• Thorough knowledge of safety procedures and regulations/guidelines.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Timely completion of internal training.
• Positive attitude towards work.
• Proven ability to manage teams and operatives.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Maintain a high level of professionalism including punctuality and reliability.
• Level 3 Electrotechnical Qualification.
• 18th Edition.
• Flexibility to work evening and weekends when required/ECS Card.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.