Package Manager

Carmichael UK; Royal Borough of Greenwich; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Carmichael UK is seeking a Package Manager to join the London Power Tunnels project. You will oversee the delivery team through pre-construction, construction and handover, ensuring staff allocation, leadership, and coordination of labour, plant, subcontractors and materials.

You will ensure all works meet quality, environmental, and H&S requirements, plan safely to programme, and manage risks and costs while reporting to senior management and client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in managing a major engineering project.
• Experience managing delivery teams with safety and regulatory compliance.
• Strong knowledge of planning and programming processes.

Responsibilities

• Overall management of a delivery team across pre-construction, construction and post-construction phases.
• Allocate staff based on experience and skills; provide leadership to the site team.
• Manage construction resources including labour, plant, subcontractors and materials.
• Ensure works comply with quality, environmental and H&S procedures and legislation.
• Plan, manage and deliver works safely and within programme; monitor and report progress.
• Identify risks, implement mitigations and develop realization plans to maximise opportunities.
• Maintain effective communication with client and project stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Planning & programming

Budget control

Team leadership

Safety & compliance

Education

HNC / HND / NVQ Level 5 or Degree

Tools

SMSTS

Job description

Carmichael are seeking a Package Manager to join the team working on the London Power Tunnels project.

Overall management of a delivery team during the pre-construction, construction and subsequent phases of the project

• Ensures appropriate staff are allocated to the right tasks based on experience, skills and knowledge
• Offer visible leadership, guidance, direction and instruction to the site team
• Overall management of construction resources including Labour, Plant, Subcontractors and Materials
• Ensure that all temporary and permanent construction and installation activities are carried out in accordance with quality, environmental and H&S procedures and all appropriate legislation
• Ensure works are planned, managed and delivered in a safe, controlled and environmentally sustainable manner
• Input into and selection of appropriate design and methodology solutions to deliver project requirements in conjunction with relevant departments (e.g. Design & Technical)
• Identify issues and ensure they are resolved in a controlled and timely manner
• Review and sign off of documentation in accordance with procedures
• Lead the identification, assessment and documentation of risks and opportunities.
• Develop and implement action plans to reduce the impact of risks and develop and implement realisation plans to enhance the benefit of opportunities
• Develop and maintain effective communication and relationships with the Client and other project stakeholders (internal and external)
• Ensure the requirements of the contract are understood and adhered to by the project team
• Lead the review of project controls information to facilitate the timely identification of any issues or areas of concern
• Ensuring the project performance is reported in a transparent and accurate manner
• Ensure suppliers and sub-contractors are managed and co-ordinated appropriately
• Ensure objectives are achieved and project is delivered in accordance with agreed scope, timeframe, budget and quality standards
• Plan and monitor all project related activities throughout effective programming of the works in liaison with the planning department. Responsible for ensuring an operational programme is maintained for their section of the works, as well as ensuring daily/weekly/monthly reporting requirements are met.
• Manage budget to agreed targets or better
• Monitor costs and provide the senior management with timely identification of deviations from budgets handed over
• Ensure that all required temporary works documents, including briefs, designs and method statements / risk assessments, are produced and approved in accordance with the programme requirements and prior to works commencing.
• Ensure disallowed cost throughout the project are minimised
• Support community and environment requirements by ensuring workforce is aware of project requirements, liaise with Skill & Employment Manager or Environmental Manager where necessary
• Promote and share lessons learnt, innovation and best practices

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• HNC / HND or NVQ Level 5 (or Degree)
• Appropriate safety training and qualification for the nature of the works (e.g SMSTS, TSTS etc)
• 5+ experience in the project management of a major engineering project
• Technical knowledge appropriate to the nature of works
• Client and stakeholder management
• Working knowledge of planning & programming
• Commercial and contractual awareness
• Management of a project delivery.
• Understanding of developing and maintaining forecasts and budgets