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Sector: Project and Program Management
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
The Vacancy
Here at Wates, we have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Planned Maintenance team in the Tamworth/Derby area. You will be managing multiple projects within the area, so we need someone who is flexible and okay with travel. Working with the team and the client (a social housing provider) to ensure the projects run smoothly is key, so you need to be a strong leader with great communication skills.
The primary focus of this role will be to provide visible leadership and direction along with foresight and insight in the safe and profitable delivery of schemes to Wates.
Key Accountabilities will include:
1. Develop and implement detailed programmes and schedules which allow accurate monitoring and reporting of progress.
2. Identify the quality expectations and embrace these in the Quality Plan.
3. Implement all statutory regulatory and company requirements for managing Health and Safety.
4. Secure and manage the appropriate resources to deliver the project/scheme effectively and efficiently in a professional manner to ensure successful delivery within project constraints.
5. Ensure there is a successful and smooth handover of the project, including support to customer/end user throughout the handover process.
6. Establish a communications plan and agree accountabilities for team members.
We are looking for a qualified, experienced, and professional Project Manager from a property services/construction background who has experience managing social housing projects.
What we offer:
1. Competitive salary, plus performance-related reviews, opportunities for growth and advancement within the team.
2. Extensive corporate benefits including Pension and Health and Wellness programme.
3. Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
4. Industry-leading family leave benefits to include 26 weeks fully paid maternity and up to 12 weeks fully paid paternity.
A bit about us:
WatesGroup is one of the largest and most successful family-owned private construction, development, and property services companies in the UK. Within the Group, Wates Living Space is one of the UK's leading providers of planned and responsive maintenance services in the social housing sector, maintaining over 500,000 homes nationwide every year. Our leading position within the maintenance sector has enabled the business to realize ambitious strategic growth, offering our clients a truly integrated national service for all of their maintenance requirements.
As a progressive and rewarding business, we offer our people the opportunity to grow their careers whilst working together to deliver the promises we make to our customers.
Our company values of integrity, intelligence, performance, teamwork, and respect for people, communities, and the environment run through our business at every level and are at the heart of everything we do.
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK's leading family-owned development, building, and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment. We are driven by our purpose, 'reimagining places for people to thrive' and our three promises:
Thriving places - working with customers, partners, and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
Thriving planet - protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people - creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognized as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favorably due to an offending background.
Company
We employ almost 4,000 people, working with a range of clients and partners from across the public and private sectors. At Wates, we are driven by our purpose of working together to inspire better ways of creating the places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow. We need the right people from whatever background to help us make this happen and we are always looking for talented people from all walks of life to reflect the diverse communities where we work.
By joining Wates, you’ll be working for an organization that invests in your continued professional development, regardless of which stage you might be at in your career.
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