MEP Project Manager

Senior M&E Project Manager (Birmingham / Oxford)
Circa £80k - £85k + Package
Network Rail project experience essential.
A specialist MEP contracting company has secured a direct to end client contract with Network Rail in the West Midlands as well as a project running concurrently in Oxford.
Focused on fixing issues left over from the construction phase along with Asset Replacement work, our client needs a commercially focused Senior M&E Project Manager to lead the project from the PCSA period through to commissioning and handover.
Although technical expertise will be needed, particularly electrically, we really need a Senior M&E Project Manager who is focused contract management, client relationship management & maximising profitability through all construction phases.
You will have a full team of managers, supervisors, testing & commissioning operatives along with technical support staff.
Key Responsibilities

• Providing leadership and project management in all facets of the project activities to deliver the project to meet cost, time, and quality requirements.
• Developing and managing effective communication and liaison with all relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure that requirements are identified, assessed, and appropriately integrated into the project.
• Working with the client and reporting to the sector manager, responsible for helping to establish the strategy and delivery for the project.
• Working in a client facing role, responsible for leading other team members, developing the clients’ strategy, through to assisting in the appointment of the extended professional team of local consultants and contractors.
• Developing the clients brief, delivering strategy, and leading the design management, procurement and execution of the scheme.
• Supervising and developing a high performing team that strives for quality, safety, cost and schedule improvements at every opportunity with all delivery partners, challenging and seeking to improve the project deliverables.
• Overseeing that the highest standards of health and safety are considered as a priority through all stages of the project.
• Coordinating, planning, and managing internal and external meetings in relation to the project.
• Driving the procurement of services and works required to deliver the project.
• Providing input into client system safety and project risk assessment and management process.

What we are looking for..

• A degree qualification in related subject or equivalent is preferred.
• Professional memberships of a relevant professional body or working towards membership is an advantage.
• Significant experience in managing clients, contractors and coordinating stakeholders
• Ability to manage and motivate a team
• Ability to carry a quality inspection and generate onsite solutions to site coordination issues as they arise.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a good team player.
• Managing budgets and forecasting expenditure.
• Key project processes such as design principals and management, construction processes, procurement, and tendering.
• Excellent IT skills.
• Strong project management and organisational skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, using a flexible pragmatic approach.