Electrical Project Manager in Reading

The Company

Our client is a leading, Tier 1 Mechanical, Electrical, and Instrumentation sub-contractor, delivering projects across Ireland, Mainland Europe, and the UK. The company operates in various sectors, including Pharmaceutical, Data Centres, Healthcare, Education, Commercial, and Power Generation. Joining our client means becoming part of an ambitious and dedicated team that values your ideas and contributions. You'll thrive in a supportive environment where your efforts are recognised.

The Role

The Electrical Project Manager is a critical position with clearly defined responsibilities that ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, and within budget. This position requires close collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the entire project lifecycle. These include internal and external designers, architects, the estimating team, key account leads, commercial teams (both in-house and client-side), subcontractors, manufacturers, specialist suppliers, client representatives, commissioning teams, and high-profile customers. The successful candidate will play a key role from initial concept and design development through to project delivery, ensuring each project is completed, handed over, and closed out professionally and to the highest standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Estimating and delivering multiple fast track small works within live environments.
• Delivering electrical projects to an extremely high standard.
• Client facing and with a keen focus on customer care in all instances.
• Chair meetings to drive outcomes, ensuring the production of accurate records of discussions, actions and deadlines.
• Liaison with designers, estimating and commercial teams.
• Understand the client's requirement, technical specifications, drawings and project requirement holistically.
• RIBA design, delivery, and project commissioning stages.
• Identify, manage and escalate risks where necessary.
• Contribute and manage against the sequence of works for the project programme.
• Drive the project programme, ensuring key milestones are maintained.
• Spotting potential points of failure and react accordingly.
• Prepare and present regular progress reports including programme drop lines to project stakeholders.
• Produce onsite dilapidations and completion of validations.
• Development and submit of RFIs, TQs, VOs and driving close out of items raised.
• Technical Submission procedures and sign off.
• Highlighting 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge of CDM Regulations, Principal Designer & Principal Contractor responsibilities under appointment.
• Generate new opportunities, upsell the business, secure additional works where possible, act on opportunities to reduce cost, add value and maximise profit.
• Ensure all programmes, plans, method statements and risk assessments are robust, up to date, understood and implemented.
• Ordering materials for projects.
• Issuing purchase orders to supply chains and ensure better buying process are adhered to.
• Produce Health and Safety packs as required.
• Ensure that all site records are kept up to date in line with company and legislative requirements.
• Ensure all persons working on site have the correct training for the role they are carrying out.
• Completion of testing documentation and other relevant record information and upload to company Dutiful system.
• Carry out site surveys to establish SoW for costing purposes.
• Ensure accurate recording of the correct working hours associated to each project worked on.
• Drive Project delivery through correct labour allocation and requirements.

Key Requirements

• Proven track record of estimating and delivering multiple fast track small works within live environments.
• A Project Management qualification, such as Prince2 (Desirable).
• Mechanical Knowledge (Desirable).
• Level 3 Electrotechnical Qualification.
• 18th Edition Certificate.
• AM2S Certificate.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends, when required.
• A UK Driving Licence.
• A valid ECS black card.
• Testing and Inspection 2391 Certificate.
• Experience of Microsoft packages, including Projects.
• Thorough knowledge of safety procedures and regulations/guidelines.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to manage teams and operatives.

Benefits

• 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.

MLQS Ltd values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Please note, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.