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Job Description

PROJECT MANAGER - ASSET INTELLIGENCE

NORTH EAST (GRANTHAM / LINCOLN)

What you will be doing:

1. Participate in creating a "knowingly safe" working environment.
2. Participate in monthly financial reviews for all schemes with the Commercial Team, ensuring that accurate financial performance reports have been completed.
3. Ensure the company's health, safety & sustainability standards are applied on the project.
4. Assume responsibility for the financial performance of each project with overall responsibility for Profit/Loss on contracts undertaken.
5. Plan and co-ordinate the project prior to commencement.
6. Co-ordinate and control initial setup including initiating Company systems and procedures.
7. Ensure that the principles of CDM are applied on the project.
8. Control and monitor efficient progress of the works.
9. Liaise with the design team to ensure the design deliverables are received in time for efficient delivery of the site works.
10. Develop and foster collaborative working relationships with the Client, Client's Representatives, Supply Chain, and internal teams.
11. Maintain the culture whereby everyone is continually seeking to satisfy customer requirements.
12. Administer the valuation system, maximise cash flow and profitability.
13. Ensure systems are in place in order that quality of work is to the prescribed standards.
14. Plan, co-ordinate, maintain and develop staff and operative levels to undertake current and prospective workloads.
15. Monitor and record individual performances encouraging and disciplinary as and when necessary.

About You:

• An industry applicable ONC/HNC/B.Eng or NVQ equivalent is required.
• Strong leadership and a commitment to delivering excellence.
• Previous experience delivering complex projects.
• Able to prioritise a varied workload and demonstrate good time management to comply with deadlines.

What We Can Offer in Return:

With an impressive order book of over £3.2 billion, we are one of the industry's leading principal contractors, affording you the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most exciting projects offering you stability as well as the chance to stretch your capabilities and realise long-held career goals.

We are committed to maintaining the physical and mental wellbeing of all our people, through our 'Be Well' programme which offers discounts on certain products, advice, and support for a range of issues.

We invest in high-quality training for employees of all levels, from our leadership development framework to our apprenticeship programmes.

Our benefits:

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays.
• A wide range of corporate discounts.
• Cycle to Work schemes.
• Comprehensive pension plan.
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme.
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees.
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role.

About us:

Galliford Try is one of the UK's leading construction groups with a vision to continuously be a people-oriented, progressive business, driven by our values to deliver lasting change for our stakeholders and the communities we work in.

Galliford Try's Asset Intelligence business works predominantly within the UK's Critical National Infrastructure market, focusing on Defence, Water, Energy, Transport, and Telecommunications sectors.

For more information on this role or to enquire about other positions available within our Specialist Services business please contact Chloe Phillips on chloe.phillips@gallifordtry.co.uk.

Additional Information:

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours, or flexibly.