Mechanical Project Manager

Robert Hurst Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Robert Hurst Limited is seeking an experienced General Manager to lead project operations for Cat B fit-out projects in the Greater London area. The role focuses on directing site activities, coordinating sub-contracts, and ensuring safety, quality, and commercial performance across multiple schemes.

You will plan programmes, manage procurement, review designs for compliance, monitor costs, and report on project performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall management resource to direct, supervise and support all Project operations through appropriate company staff.
• Develop, plan and implement company policies and goals.
• Ensure that all installation works associated with the Projects maintains compliance with all relevant standards and legislation through appropriate formal procedures.
• Plan workload and allocate specific projects and tasks.
• Prepare operational project programmes in line with main project programme and identify labour and material procurement deadlines.
• Manage the preparation of major materials and master material procurement schedules.
• Identify and check that proposed procurement dates come in line with the appropriate programme dates to ensure that materials and equipment are available on site at the prescribed times.
• Identify any sub-contract packages of work that will be required making reference to our original tender offer if appropriate.
• Plan the site set up arrangements and procure via our Buying department the appropriate site office, workshop and storage facilities making reference to our original tender allowance.
• Review and interpret proposed designs, drawings and specifications to ensure compliance with our obligations and appropriateness to required function and recognised standards, initiate revisions where appropriate and advise customer of any shortfalls.
• Inspect and monitor the quality of the installed works, review defects reports, ensure compliance with specifications and drawings, monitor site Health and Safety reports.
• Research and prepare various reports pertaining to overall company performance, individual Project performance, individual personnel performance, general policies, procedures and other issues as appropriate.
• Monitor individual Project commercial performance against targets through regular review of job cost reports and detailed work in progress reports.
• Prepare and monitor final account preparations and ensure accounts are up to date as far as agreements and variations are concerned. Monitor this on a monthly basis to ensure variations are being agreed by others in a timely manner.
• Present final accounts to Contracts / Associate director for agreement prior to final account being presented to the Customer for final certification.
• Authorise the issues of sub-contract orders and the purchase of major material packages monitor any change orders and approve sub-contract payments.
• Ensure that company standards for Health and Safety associated with all Project activities are maintained as identified in the company Health and Safety policy, site manuals and procedures.
• Initiate and monitor all site Health and Safety inspections either by our in house H&S Manager or external resource.
• Ensure that any recommendations following on from a site H&S site visit are implemented, and reported back to the CM/AD.
• Take personal responsibility for all Project H&S issues ensure all paperwork associated with H&S issues such as tool box talk registers, site risk assessments, plant checks etc. are being carried out and kept up to date.
• Maintain and develop existing customer contacts to maintain and increase appropriate workload and opportunity

Job description

Job Details

• Cat B Fitout projects, Plant replacement / Fitout scheme
• Full D&B from stage 3 onwards with specialist CDP contactors
• Ventilation
• Mechanical sprinkler systems
• VRF HTG/Cooling
• BMS
• Mechanical pipework

What this person is responsible for?

General Management

• Provide overall management resource to direct, supervise and support all Project operations through appropriate company staff.
• Develop, plan and implement company policies and goals.

Standards:

• Ensure that all installation works associated with the Projects maintains compliance with all relevant standards and legislation through appropriate formal procedures.

Operational Procedures:

• Plan workload and allocate specific projects and tasks.
• Prepare operational project programmes in line with main project programme and identify labour and material procurement deadlines.
• Manage the preparation of major materials and master material procurement schedules.
• Identify and check that proposed procurement dates come in line with the appropriate programme dates to ensure that materials and equipment are available on site at the prescribed times.
• Identify any sub-contract packages of work that will be required making reference to our original tender offer if appropriate.
• Plan the site set up arrangements and procure via our Buying department the appropriate site office, workshop and storage facilities making reference to our original tender allowance.
• Review and interpret proposed designs, drawings and specifications to ensure compliance with our obligations and appropriateness to required function and recognised standards, initiate revisions where appropriate and advise customer of any shortfalls..
• Inspect and monitor the quality of the installed works, review defects reports, ensure compliance with specifications and drawings, monitor site Health and Safety reports.
• Research and prepare various reports pertaining to overall company performance, individual Project performance, individual personnel performance, general policies, procedures and other issues as appropriate.

Commercial:

• Monitor individual Project commercial performance against targets through regular review of job cost reports and detailed work in progress reports. Prepare these reports in conjunction with assigned Quantity Surveyor.
• Prepare and monitor final account preparations and ensure accounts are up to date as far as agreements and variations are concerned. Monitor this on a monthly basis to ensure variations are being agreed by others in a timely manner.
• Present final accounts to Contracts / Associate director for agreement prior to final account being presented to the Customer for final certification.
• Authorise the issues of sub-contract orders and the purchase of major material packages monitor any change orders and approve sub-contract payments.

Health and Safety:

• Ensure that company standards for Health and Safety associated with all Project activities are maintained as identified in the company Health and Safety policy, site manuals and procedures.
• Initiate and monitor all site Health and Safety inspections either by our in house H&S Manager or external resource.
• Ensure that any recommendations following on from a site H&S site visit are implemented, and reported back to the CM/AD.
• Take personal responsibility for all Project H&S issues ensure all paperwork associated with H&S issues such as tool box talk registers, site risk assessments, plant checks etc. are being carried out and kept up to date.

Business Development:

• Maintain and develop existing customer contacts to maintain and increase appropriate workload and opportunity