Mechanical Project Manager – Europe in London

Control the overall operational delivery of a project (or part thereof), considering the safety, technical, commercial, and managerial requirements, from bid and pre-commencement through to successful practical completion. Ensuring that profitability is maintained or improved through effective leadership, high-quality customer relations, and management of relevant support functions allocated to the project.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong Health and Safety leadership and compliance throughout all activities relating to the project on which you are working.
• Support the Senior Management and central H&S team by delivering clear and consistent communications.
• Deliver projects in line with ISO and business process to provide customers a consistent delivery experience.
• Participate in bid activities that support sales and proposal teams and processes to ensure professional, profitable, and successful bids are delivered, meeting customer expectations.
• Manage pre-commencement activities in line with the business project delivery process.
• Maximise opportunities, efficiency, and profitability in the project's delivery phase.
• Review the project scope of works, including installation methods, to ensure the precise provision of the customer's requirements.
• Supply chain engagement, maintaining relations and understanding escalation structure and processes to overcome barriers to resolve disputes or issues.
• Engagement with the commercial team ensuring subcontractor contracts and performance is implemented.
• Management/contracts management across the full operations.
• Working with project commercial lead, identify and manage project risks and opportunities, ensuring that these are commercially mitigated or enhanced to provide a clear and up-to-date risk position.
• Lead the team to effectively manage the appointed specialist subcontractors and ensure the work is being carried out safely, to the specification and programme.
• Develop effective, sustainable relationships with key subcontractor organisations.
• Provide leadership for the project delivery team within the area of control by clearly defining objectives, responsibilities, and accountabilities and managing performance accordingly.
• Offer guidance and feedback to maximise the performance of the team.
• Provision of Customer Progress Reporting in a timely and regular manner, using correct reporting management tools and templates.
• Ensure the level of information provided is sufficient to manage expectations and considers the sensitivity of business to end-to-end client relations to avoid any detrimental effect.
• Provision of internal business reports and contract reviews, including the preparation and submission of requisite reports and all project related data.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of costs, values and programme forecasts; seeking opportunities to suggest actions which mitigate risk and maximise profitability.
• Pro-actively engage with the Commercial team ensuring contractual matters are represented to meet the constraints under contract.
• Develop/maintain positive long-term relationships with customers by understanding their requirements and ensuring that project objectives are defined.
• Lead project team/area under control to deliver against these objectives, ensure customer satisfaction and maintain sustainable relationships.
• Lead project team to the safe and successful completion of the project/area under control within agreed timescales, agreed budgets and to meet specification and customer requirements; ensuring that the project is closed out in accordance with the business process requirements.
• Ensure that project defects are closed out in a timely manner.
• Manage and support effective use of company email in terms of structure, format, storage, and retrieval.
• Represent the business and attend events to promote the well-being of the business and engage with customers.
• Initiate contact with customers to assess future needs and provide recommendations to the business to adapt services and systems accordingly.
• Operate as a subject matter expert in relevant areas of expertise and/or sectors DPI operates within.
• Prepare for and carry out employee performance reviews with direct reports following the company process.
• Maintain/develop skills and team performance to deliver required outcomes.
• Identify potential within the team and provide mentoring/coaching to team members to support development plans and career progression.

Essential skills and knowledge

• Rights to work essential
• Leadership and people management.
• Management within Construction and M&E environment.
• Sector and industry knowledge within Data Centre and associated services environment.
• IT skills in Word, Excel, MS Project and PowerPoint presentation.
• Financial awareness of profit and loss and commercial costing.
• SMST, IOSH for managers, CSCS, ECS accreditation.