Senior Construction Project Manager – MEP & Civil

Metropolitan Services; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Vitality membership

Dental plan

Life insurance

Company laptop

Company pension

25 days annual leave

Training & development

Employee Ownership Trust after 12 mo

Job summary

Metropolitan Services in Glasgow seeks a site-based professional with extensive Main Contractor experience to lead MEP, Civil and Fit-Out projects valued from £10k to £1M. You will coordinate designers, estimators, commercial teams and subcontractors from conception through handover, ensuring top standards and robust risk management.

You will live within commuting distance of Glasgow, hold CSCS, SMSTS, First Aid, and a valid driving licence, with strong client-facing and decision-making skills.

Qualifications

• > Demonstratable experience with a minimum 5 years’ experience in a Main Contractor role.
• > Reside within a 20 mile / 30 minute commute to Glasgow City Centre.
• > Full Driving Licence.
• > Valid CSCS Card.
• > First Aid Trained.
• > SMSTS Qualification.
• > Two references required.
• > DBS Check – Basic or Enhanced (will be completed upon appointment if not current).
• > Financial / Sanction Check (will be completed upon appointment if not current).
• > Enhanced Management Training – ILM or Similar
• > IOSH Managing Safely
• > Degree educated

Responsibilities

• Proven track record of delivering MEP, Civil and Fit-Out MEP Projects to an extremely high standard.
• Possessing a professional demeanour, client facing and with a keen focus on customer care in all instances.
• Confident and effective communication, ability to chair meetings, driving outcomes, ensuring the production of accurate records of discussions, actions and deadlines.
• Exposure to ITT’s, liaison with designers, estimating and commercial teams.
• Ability to fully understand the client requirement, technical specifications, drawings and project requirement holistically.
• Experience in the RIBA design, delivery, and project commissioning management stages.
• Good understanding of design and project risks. Identify, manage and escalation risks where necessary.
• Be able to contribute and manage against the sequence of works for the project programme.
• Ability to generate and drive the project programme, ensuring key milestones are maintained. Ability to foresee potential points of failure and react accordingly.
• Prepare and present regular project progress reports including programme drop lines to project stakeholders.
• Familiarity with producing onsite dilapidations and completion of validations.
• Understanding the importance of the development and submission of RFI’s, TQ’s and driving close out of items raised.
• Familiar with Technical Submission procedures and sign off.
• Ability to make sound business decisions under pressure.
• A logical and lateral thinker with the ability to problem solve.
• Effective communicator, driven, focused, tenacious and conscientious.
• Excellent time management, ability to delegate, prioritise key tasks and workload when working to strict deadlines.
• Good understanding of project governance and the requirement for procedural conformity.
• Commercially astute, sound awareness of the contract terms ensuring adherence, ability to highlight risks, manage variations, delays and EOT requirements, liaising with internal QS’s to ensure that the business is commercially protected.
• Good understanding of JCT and NEC contracts desirable.
• Build and maintain good relationships with the customer, framework suppliers and design consultants. Possess the ability to be assertive where required. Able to read the situation and make sound decisions, managing multiple entities both up and downstream, being the conduit to success.
• Highly adept at the co-ordination of work packages, understanding the interaction of trades and the ability to foresee potential issues.
• Lead by example, promote the highest of standards with regards to HSEQ best practice, ensuring compliance with company standards, policies, ISO accreditations and legislative requirements in all instances.
• Sound knowledge of CDM Regulations, Principal Designer & Principal Contractor responsibilities under appointment.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new ways of working.
• Drive the company’s vision, values and work ethic, contributing to the growth of the business.
• Generate new opportunities, upsell GML as a business, secure additional works where possible, act on opportunities to reduce cost, add value and maximise profit.

Skills

Main Contractor experience

Driving Licence

CSCS Card

First Aid

SMSTS

Two references

DBS Check

Financial / Sanction Check

ILM or Similar

IOSH Managing Safely

Education

Degree educated

Job description

Metropolitan Services in Glasgow seeks a site-based professional with extensive Main Contractor experience to lead MEP, Civil and Fit-Out projects valued from £10k to £1M. You will coordinate designers, estimators, commercial teams and subcontractors from conception through handover, ensuring top standards and robust risk management.

You will live within commuting distance of Glasgow, hold CSCS, SMSTS, First Aid, and a valid driving licence, with strong client-facing and decision-making skills.