Your new company is a contractor that has been awarded a prestigious project to build a set of large high-rise reinforced concrete residential buildings in Sussex. The value of the project is £15m and consists of 146 units at varying stages of completion and 15 months of programme left to complete the project.
Your new role is as a Project Manager, acting as the number one on-site, reporting to the board of directors for the organisation. You will have a management team consisting of a Senior Internals Manager, an Internals Manager and two Finishing Managers. You will be responsible for creating and delivering a program of completion with your specialist subcontractors and direct staff. The contract is self-delivery where you would need to forecast and procure materials directly from suppliers and instruct your subcontractors to adhere to call-off orders and achieve their targets. You will need to interpret drawings, understand technical specifications, be familiar with categories of products that need to be installed and staggered formally in the program and review them in regular site meetings. Construction activities will spread across two floors at any point of time and result in a target output of five practical completions per week, so the successful candidate would increase this success rate.
What you'll need to succeed is substantial experience in the UK as an on-site Project Manager who specialises in t...