Project Manager
Location: South East
Key Responsibilities
- Project Managers with a background in Construction Project Management are required to work on the Ministry of Defence Works programme
- The Billable Works development team operates mostly in the RIBA Stages 0-4 space handling all pre-construction activity, providing services directly on the MoD estate.
- The role involves managing all aspects of the project lifecycle up to Contract negotiation stage. The role involves:
- Investigate tasks at requirements stage
- Procure and organise on site surveys, feasibility studies and early design work
- Obtain design approval and prepare document packs and issue to the contractor market for tender
- Manage the tender process to completion including, RFI's, evaluation, commercial settlement
- Once complete, projects are normally handed over to the delivery PM team who manage all construction activities
- This is a fast-paced environment with high project turnover, typical project values between £100k and £1m but you may be asked to develop projects in their early stages up to £5m.
- Frequent travel across the MOD estate will be required therefore it is essential you have a full UK Driving Licence and access to your own vehicle
Key Skills
- The roles would be suited to PM's ideally with some experience of Ministry of Defence/DIO contracts or projects, who are used to working through the RIBA stage plan in a highly governed environment with a civil service partner. Similar industry experience may be transferrable from Nuclear/Highways/MoJ/NHS etc or other central government/regulated environment. The key skills you will need to succeed are:-
- High levels of attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to manage and retain a high volume of information and produce technical documents of high quality and accuracy
- Understanding of the various stages of pre construction activity and experience of design and tendering would be beneficial
- Experience of with evaluation of technical tender and commercial documents and familiarity with NRM pricing
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders in a challenging environment and provide regular reports to management
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