Senior Project Manager

Coopero Ltd.; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Coopero Ltd. in Ireland seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead projects from planning through to completion, ensuring safety, schedule, budget and quality while maintaining strong client relationships and delivering value.

You will manage a team of project managers, coordinate multidisciplinary design teams and main contractors, oversee change control, risk management and reporting to clients and fund monitors, and drive continuous improvement across the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in construction.
• Degree in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, or related PM discipline.
• Chartered (or on Pathway to) with the RIAI, RICS, CIOB, IE, APM or other equivalent institution.
• Highly motivated with a strong evolving industry network.
• Able to provide advice to Clients in a transparent and honest manner.
• Maintain total integrity in the delivery of the Senior Project Manager role.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Remain calm and professional under pressure from Clients.
• Knowledge of common contract forms and standard industry practices.
• Strong working knowledge of project management software and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead a group of projects from planning and design through to successful completion, commissioning and DLP.
• Deliver projects safely, on time, within budget, and to specification.
• Lead procurement and manage multidisciplinary design teams.
• Collaborate with design teams and main contractors on planning and design.
• Manage financial reporting to Clients and fund monitors.
• Ensure compliance with codes, standards and health & safety regulations.
• Act as primary client contact and manage client satisfaction.
• Oversee day-to-day activities of the Project Managers and ensure proper PM practices.
• Provide technical and contractual support to Project Managers.
• Coordinate project interfaces across lifecycle stages.
• Manage all aspects of project change control.
• Complete monthly client and fund monitor reports.
• Maintain and update the project risk register.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Decision making

Leadership

Communication skills

Integrity

Education

Engineering degree

Quantity Surveying degree

Architecture degree

Project management discipline degree

Tools

Project management software

Toolsets

Job description

Outline

To lead and oversee the delivery of projects from planning through to completion, ensuring they are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards, while managing Client relationships, adding Value, and supporting Project Managers to achieve successful project outcomes.

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Construction sector.
• Degree Qualified in Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Architecture, or related Project management discipline.
• Chartered (or on Pathway to) with the RIAI, RICS, CIOB, IE, APM or other equivalent institution.
• Highly motivated and with a strong evolving industry network.
• Excels in providing advice to Clients, in a transparent and honest manner.
• Always demonstrate total integrity in the delivery of the SPM role.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Always remain calm and professional, even under pressure from Clients.
• Knowledge of RIAI Blue/Yellow Forms, GCCC Contracts and D&B Contracts.
• Ability to make decisions and demonstrate the logic in reaching those decisions when required.
• Strong working knowledge of Project Management software and toolsets.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities encompass a wide range of activities, including but not limited to:

• The Senior Project Manager will take responsibility for managing a group of projects from planning and design through to successful completion, commissioning and DLP.
• The Senior Project Manager is responsible for delivering the projects safely, on time, within budget, and to specification, ensuring the projects achieve all goals and objectives in accordance with Clients’ requirements.
• Lead the procurement process and manage multidisciplinary Design Teams, ensuring high standards of performance and delivery.
• Collaborate with Design Teams and Main Contractors in the progressive planning and design of projects.
• Manage the financial aspects of projects, ensuring accurate Client reporting, including communications with, and reporting to, Bank Monitors.
• Adhere to all Codes of Practice, Design Standards, and Health & Safety Regulations, ensuring all projects meet industry standards.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Clients, managing relationships and ensuring Client satisfaction throughout the project lifecycle.
• Oversee the day-to-day activities of the Project Managers(in your team) ensuring that the appropriate project management techniques and measures are being implemented to ensure delivery of the projects to cost, schedule, quality and safety metrics.
• Provide technical and contractual support to the Project Managers with their day-to-day delivery functions and be responsible for reporting on the performance of their projects.
• Lead the coordination of the project, ensuring interfaces are considered and addressed at all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Manage all aspects of project change control.
• Complete monthly reports for both the Client and Fund Monitor (where applicable).
• Maintain the overall project risk register and update it at monthly progress meetings.
• Carry out the role of Contract Administrator (or ER) as and when required.
• Be fully conversant with the main Forms of Building Contracts and Design Team Appointments.
• Ensure projects and commissions are delivered to the satisfaction of the Client in terms of quality, cost, and time.
• Always seek opportunities to ‘add value’ to the entire project management process to ensure Clients are aware that we always ‘go the extra mile'.
• Be the ‘owner’ of all day-to-day activities and seek Director advice as and when required.
• Deliver the role with attention to detail, e.g. always consider what you are doing and avoid overly ‘working to a list’ and simply ticking items off as completed.
• Industry best practice in delivering the role requires you to ‘think like a Client’, i.e. what does the Client think of how the meeting went? Are they happy with me? Could I have done more? What are the key do’s/don’ts of the Client organisation? What will the Client read into this correspondence?
• Be prepared to adapt your project management delivery style to suit the Client or project at hand.
• Identify opportunities to improve internal project management procedures, templates and products.
• Become conversant with, and knowledgeable about, all service lines offered outside of project management, i.e. valuations, project monitoring and transactions, such that you can seek to upsell and/or cross-sell these services to existing or new Clients in a confident manner.
• Manage the flow of project information between the Design Team, Main Contractor and the Client through regular meetings and written communication.
• Execute services to a high level of professionalism, irrespective of project value or Client. Every project demands the same professional standards of Senior Project Management delivery, whether a small project or a multimillion-pound project.
• Help develop and improve the internal processes and management system by reporting corrective actions, updates and improvement ideas.