Role overview
- ID: 2024-5774
- Entity: Vistry
- Region: Vistry Northern Home Counties
- Department: Build
- Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
- Job Location: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
- Date Posted: 12.06.2024
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team within Vistry Northern Home Counties, at our Wellingborough site in Northamptonshire. As our Project Manager, you will effectively motivate, support and manage the site-based management teams to ensure that the development achieves the desired health, safety and environmental performance standards. To achieve the programme and quality requirements. To promote the importance of customer relationships to all site-based teams to include directly employed and sub-contracted staff. To ensure that the approach and associated results are consistently high across all sites within the designated area.
- Let's cut to the chase, what's in it for you...
- Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
- Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
- Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private Healthcare
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Competitive contributory pension scheme
- Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
- Share incentive schemes
- Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
- In return, what we would like from you...
- Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
- ONC or HNC in Building Construction or NVQ Level 4/5 or similar
- CSCS Card at Site Manager level
- Previous experience as a Project Manager or Senior Site Manager for a high-volume house builder
- Ability to chair and run meetings
- Proven track record of motivating and managing a team effectively
- Up to date knowledge of health and safety obligations and building legislation
- Able to work with others to achieve the desired outcome
- Capable of implementing change and of using initiative
- Confident outlook combined with resilience and diplomacy
- Proven ability to work effectively with senior management
- Ability to take a big picture view of multiple sites and make decisions accordingly
- Able to work with a high degree of accuracy
- Decision maker with pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Discretion and integrity in attitude and approach
- Able to work under pressure
- Ability to balance excellent customer service with the requirements of achieving Company targets
- Demonstrable personal credibility
- Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it
- A commitment to work as required to meet the needs of the business
Desirable...
- Internal company development programmes may be considered appropriate dependent on details
- SMSTS
- Demonstrable career progression within the construction industry
More about the Project Manager role...
- Prepare and review site strategy and traffic management plans with the Site Manager/s as required to ensure they are complete and reflect the current site conditions.
- Ensure compliance with the Company's health and safety and environmental policy and procedures at all times.
- Ensure site management staff carry out health and safety inductions for all staff, sub-contractors and visitors arriving on site.
- Arrange and carry out induction training for all new Site Managers in accordance with the Company's requirements.
- Attend health and safety and other training courses as required by the Company.
- Include health, safety, and environment on the agenda at all project and site team meetings. Resolve and promote solutions to all areas of concern raised.
- Chair where possible all adjudication meetings for all sub-contractors on site to determine and approve their employment.
- Attend where possible all adjudication meetings as listed above.
- Support and motivate site teams and sub-contract management teams to ensure that all health, safety, and environmental targets are met.
- Ensure Site Management implement and review environmental, fire and waste management plans on a monthly basis.
- Ensure that Company guidelines are followed in relation to accident and incident reporting procedures.
- Work with the site management teams, sub-contractors and operatives to promote and enhance health, safety, and environmental best practice.
- Ensure all site staff are trained in and comply with the Customer Journey and the Company's customer service commitments.
- Ensure all plots have a customer care pass before obtaining CML prior to legal completion.
- Ensure that service visits are carried out in accordance with the Customer Journey.
- Ensure that pre-occupation checks are carried out on all properties prior to handover.
- Ensure that home demonstrations are delivered to customers in their own home, ensuring that all instructions and warranties in relation to appliances and heating systems are available.
- Communicate customer satisfaction surveys to all site-based staff and ensure points raised are acted on.
- Ensure that effective site-based meetings take place between the Sales Team Leaders and the Site Manager/s and that the required information is available to enable the Sales Team Leader to update the customers. Attend on an infrequent basis to ensure effectiveness.
- Ensure remedial items raised at home demonstrations are actioned accordingly by site teams.
- Ensure that all plots to be handed over have adequate and appropriate access, parking, street lighting and signage.
- Agree trade tenders list with the Area Build Manager and assist with the vetting of sub-contractors prior to appointment to ensure the correct quality standards will be achieved.
- Ensure that quality inductions are carried out for all sub-contractors on site to ensure the required quality standards are met.
- Review outstanding issues at each site visit and ensure they have been actioned accordingly.
- Ensure that all NHBC key stage inspections are met.
- Ensure that all sub-contractor quality stage checklists are complete prior to payment being authorised.
- Ensure that protection to work in progress complies with the Company's site.Ensure that forward planning is in place at all stages of the build operation and liaise with the technical and commercial departments as r