Position: Construction Project Manager
Department: Turnkey Construction
Line Manager: Divisional Manager
Assignment: Permanent
Location: Kimpton Premises, and visiting customer sites as required
Start Date: ASAP
The role requires a can-do, hands-on, pro-active approach and a tenacious, organised, character that is focussed on sustainable business success, while operating within our FIT values. It requires leadership qualities that will support and develop the already positive culture of the existing team to deliver at the highest possible level for stakeholders. This is a role that for the right candidate will grow as the business grows and they will be a capable team player who can confidently engage and negotiate at all levels internally and externally. The company meets flexibility with flexibility and they will need to be willing to go the extra mile to get the job done as the needs of the business requires, but the overriding requirement is to genuinely want to be a key part of the long term future success of the company.
Essential Skills / Qualifications / Attributes:
- Must have good communication skills and adapt these as necessary/appropriate.
- Must be able to build trust and confidence through competence, consistently delivering on promises, and promoting clear and timely communications with customers, colleagues, supply chain, and other project stakeholders.
- Must have good IT Skills in Microsoft Outlook ,Word, and Excel minimum.
- Must have good commercial awareness and good win-win negotiation skills.
- Excellent time management skills and proven in achieving quality on-time project delivery.
- Qualifications: Recognised qualification in Construction – candidates without formal qualifications may be considered if they have acquired sufficient experience to demonstrate competence in the skills necessary to fulfil the role.
- Min 5years in Contract Engineer / Contract Management role, leading relevant projects/packages.
- Strong Commercial & Industrial project experience.
- Experience of preparing and engaging with trusted sub-contractors on sub-sub-packages, including in respect of sub-contractor management, co-ordination, negotiations and management/leadership.
- Value engineering experience.
- Good awareness of commercial risks and opportunities. Focus on win-win outcomes.
- Highly organised and driven individual committed to delivering excellence through great teamwork, sound decision making, with thorough and timely communications.
- Positive project leadership qualities.
- Alignment with our Company FIT values.
Responsibilities:
- Attend, and chair where appropriate, meetings with customers, designers, specialist contractors and other team members.
- Contribute to and/or produce progress updates and attend/lead project meetings as required.
- Review designers and contractors’ drawings for completeness of information and ensure compliance with contract requirements (specification, employers requirements, tech-subs etc). Notify relevant parties of any discrepancies in timely manner.
- Provide expertise in planning and executing delivery and associated commissioning and handover.
- Plan and manage the project programme, operational delivery, and coordination of the scope of works under their control.
- Resource projects appropriately and with consideration of the capacity/capability of those resources to ensure success (considering also the wider company exposure – beyond a single project). Ensure best value for money (competitive tenders / better buying etc).
- Bring positive drive to the whole project team to deliver on our promises. Being relentless in building the company reputation for excellence. Always delivering projects safely, on-time, to all required quality standards, and bettering company net profit margins.
- Visit site regularly to inspect for compliance with contract requirements and Industry best practice. Ensure all project related QA is delivered as relevant to the scope, and company procedures are followed.
- Responsible for the complete delivery works on their projects to meet all contractual obligations. Ensure all required records are completed and copies retained using company systems, and ensure customer management system records are completed as required.
- Manage the project budget, cash flow, and mitigate commercial risks. Negotiate final account success as required.
- Ensure handovers are well planned resourced, and managed, including (where applicable) soft landings.
- To retain team focus on margins, cash, and net profit, as well as customer retention, and maintaining a robust supply chain.
- To engage with, and support, the work of the wider team in any tasks reasonably required, retaining at all times alignment with our FIT values.
About us:
As experts in heat pumps and decarbonisation, Kimpton are on the front-line in the race to net-zero. We’ve been delivering M&E infrastructure, Heating Ventilation and Air-Conditioning services and Commercial Office fit outs across the Liverpool City Region since 1963.
Our clients include Merseyside’s largest employers across every sector including Unilever, Walkers Crisps, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Radisson and Hilton Hotels, Kraft Heinz, Daresbury Laboratories, Liverpool Hope University. We also look after the entire M&S Bank Arena campus – the hosts of Eurovision 2023.
We deliver the Hard FM services across the entire ACC Liverpool campus which includes Exhibition Centre Liverpool and The M&S Bank Arena.
We installed the water and gas pipe network at Liverpool One, a 1.65million sq ft open-air complex of 170 stores, bars and restaurants, cinema and hotel – one of Europe’s leading retail and leisure destinations.
We’re carrying out a £9m upgrade and refurbishment of the HVAC systems and offices throughout The Capital Building on the Strand, the largest Grade A office space in Liverpool, housing The Home Office and Crown Commercial Services.
We’re delivering large-scale residential schemes all over the UK and have delivered more student accommodation in Liverpool than any other M&E contractor. We maintain some of the University of Liverpool’s largest purpose-built accommodation buildings.
It’s because we have always been innovators in HVAC, and this thinking continues to the present day. For many, Heat Pump technology is new, but here at Kimpton, we installed our first heat pumps back in the 1970’s for Walkers Crisps and Golden Wonder. They were used to keep stocks of potatoes fresh and dry and were an innovative technology that would go on to save many £000’s in fuel costs and even more in carbon saving.
We have continued to be at the forefront of heat pump system design and have gained many years of expertise in their design and installation since those early days.
This culture of innovation has led to the delivery of two other UK firsts in renewable technology – we designed and installed the UK’s first tidal water source heat pumps in open sea at Plas Newydd, Anglesey for the National Trust and installed one of the UK’s first Transpired Solar Collectors with TATA steel at the SBEC Building on Deeside.
How to apply:
In the first instance, please send your CV and a Covering Letter that lets us know more about you and why you’re the perfect fit for our team, to vacancies@Kimpton.co.uk
