Mechanical Project Manager

Metropolitan Services; Slough; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Owned Trust (EOT) after 12+1

Private Healthcare

Private Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Pension Scheme

Length of Service reward scheme

Tradepoint discount scheme

Project Performance Bonus

Job summary

Group Metropolitan is seeking a Project Manager for site-based delivery across Slough and Canary Wharf. The role focuses on managing projects from conception through handover, ensuring safety, quality and commercial performance while meeting client requirements.

The successful candidate will coordinate with the client, estimating department, engineers and site teams, maintaining schedules and budgets, and delivering projects to the highest standards under a permanent contract.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent is required.
• Full Driving Licence is required.
• IOSH Managing Safely or SMSTS qualification is required.
• First Aid Trained is required.

Responsibilities

• Surveying, Key Planning and Defining Scope of works.
• Producing budgets, forecasts and firm quotations; monitor costs and provide monthly reports to Contracts Manager.
• Reviewing work packages to ensure clearly defined scope.
• Attend weekly client meetings and record discussions and actions.
• Build and maintain relationships with customers, framework suppliers and site teams.
• Develop and maintain construction programmes with staff and contractors.
• Arrange trained staff for tasks and supervise works, including outside normal hours.
• Coordinate site investigations and develop cost-effective construction solutions.
• Ensure Project Plans, risk assessments, method statements and waste management plans align with procedures.
• Ensure customer KPIs and SLAs are met.
• Allocate HSE responsibilities and arrange training as needed.
• Ensure subcontractors follow procedures and comply with regulations.
• Liaise with third parties to meet regulatory standards.
• Produce and maintain QA files and close out technical queries.
• Submit as-built drawings and O&M manuals to client on completion.

Education

NVQ Level 2 or equivalent

Full Driving Licence

IOSH Managing Safely or SMSTS Qualification

First Aid Trained

Job description

Job Description

Group Metropolitan was founded in 1985 as an electrical contractor carrying out small moves and changes projects for a select few clients. Over the past 35 years, we have grown into a turnkey Principal Contractor offering in-house tradespeople, with a projected turnover of £90m. This has been achieved by working collaboratively with our clients to understand their needs and become an extension of their business,’ expanding our service offerings and geography to meet the expectations required. Whilst the business has seen organic growth over the years, our core values of Safety, Quality, Integrity and People, remain the same.

The Project Manager is to deliver an on-going project, day to day business as usual and re-active works to Metropolitan standards, the required programme and to the maximum commercial performance. The role also involves working closely with the client representatives, estimating department, engineers and other site teams to ensure that projects are completed in a safe manner, whilst ensuring customer requirements and expectations are always maintained or exceeded.

The candidate will be a key contributor from conception, through the design stages, managing the delivery and ensuring that each project is successfully handed over and closed out in a professional manner to the highest of standards.

Type of contract: Permanent Role

Department: Mechanical

Hours: 07:00 – 16:00 (1 hour for lunch)

Location: Site Based (Slough) and Canary Wharf

Requirements

• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent
• Full Driving Licence
• IOSH Managing Safely or SMSTS Qualification / Equal Approved
• First Aid Trained

Responsibilities

• Surveying, Key Planning and Defining Scope of works
• Producing accurate budget forecasts and/or firm quotations, monitoring and controlling project costs, cost reporting, and producing monthly reports to Contracts Manager on project performance, efficient team building and labour organisation
• Reviewing work packages and ensuring scope of work is clearly defined and understood
• Attending weekly client meetings and ensuring the production of accurate records of any discussions and actions
• Building and maintaining good relationships with the customers, framework suppliers and other site teams
• Developing and maintaining construction programmes with staff and contractors
• Arranging appropriately trained staff for work tasks and overseeing and monitoring the works during normal hours and as required outside normal hours
• Co-ordinating and managing site investigations during the ongoing construction process and developing engineering solutions in order to build cost-effective construction solutions that fulfil the client’s requirements
• Ensuring production and implementation of Project Plans, risk assessments, method statements, site waste management plans, and procurement of plant and materials are in line with company procedures
• Ensuring agreed customer KPIs and SLAs are met
• Allocating HSE responsibilities and duties for site personnel, checking understanding and arranging training as necessary
• Ensuring that all subcontractors take appropriate steps to follow procedures and processes
• Liaising with third parties to ensure compliance with required regulatory standards.
• Ensuring that the QA File is produced and maintained
• Closing out any technical queries
• Ensuring as built drawings and O&M manuals are submitted to client on completion

Benefits

• Following 12 months of continuous employment, you are entitled to become a beneficiary of the Employee Owned Trust (EOT) scheme.
• Private Healthcare.
• Private Dental Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• Pension Scheme.
• Length of Service reward scheme.
• Tradepoint discount scheme.
• Project Performance Bonus

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