Project Manager Construction

Canstaff; Taupo; On-site; NZD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vehicle

Computer

Phone

Job summary

Landmark Homes in Taupo seeks a Project Manager to ensure all housing compliance standards are met, with a focus on on-time delivery and quality for residential builds. The role requires collaboration with the director, management of subcontractors, and vigilant cost control.

The successful candidate will oversee site setup, safety, and inspections, maintaining strong client relationships and delivering projects to the agreed specifications and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Experience in NZ residential or commercial new builds.
• Strong customer service focus and stakeholder management.
• High attention to detail and quality assurance.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong client relationships and obtain sign-off on variations.
• Assist with pricing variations and check final account.
• Coordinate plans, quantities, and cost estimates with the team.
• Manage critical path, subcontractors, and scheduling in RAVE BUILD.
• Supervise site setup, safety, and inspections; ensure timely completion.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Attention to detail

Project coordination

Residential construction

Education

Carpentry Trade Qualification

LBP

Tools

RAVE BUILD

Job description

Project Manager, ( Construction ) a role to ensure all the Housing Compliance standards are met to conform with construction standards across Residential Building

PROJECT MANAGER ROLE DESCRIPTION

Role title: Project Manager

Reports to: Director – Operations

Direct Reports: Nil

Location: Taupo

Salary plus Vehicle, Computer and Phone

Role purpose:

To ensure that all Landmark Homes houses are built to stated quality standards, on time, at the stated profit margin and are signed off by a satisfied customer.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

Client Relationship

• ? Build and maintain a strong client relationship through trust and regular contact by meetings, email and phone.
• ? Presenting and obtaining sign off on contract variations for the client
• ? Meet with client at practical completion, complete a walk through and ensure client sign off.
• ? Attending promptly to client maintenance.

Project Management

• ? Assisting with pricing variations and checking final account
• ? Check plans (using Company checklist) and material cost report
• ? Assist with quantity surveying of plans and costing estimates
• ? Critical path planning, allocating subcontractors and updating schedule, using RAVE BUILD
• ? Scheduling and ordering material from RAVE BUILD
• ? Allocating sub contractual labour
• ? Signing off all material/sub contractual accounts for payment
• ? Meeting milestone billing targets set by the Company
• ? Gathering of producer statements for Code of Compliance Certificate
• ? Overseeing maintenance period and organising subcontractors to attend to maintenance promptly and following up maintenance to ensure satisfaction of clients.
• ? Bring to the notice of the Managing Director opportunities and recommendations for suppliers of materials.
• ? Such other duties as the company may from time to time direct.

Site Set Up

• ? Arranging site set up:
• o Water and power supply
• o Temporary fencing as required
• o Site safety pack
• o Temporary toilet
• o Storage
• o Silt fencing as required
• ? Mark out Building platform excavation
• ? Meet excavator and monitor excavation works
• ? Document and photograph any excavation overruns and inform client

Site Visitation

• ? Quality control checks and reports filled in and filed
• ? Collection of excess materials and pallets returned for credit
• ? Site safe checks, hazard identification and hazard elimination
• ? Booking and attending council inspections
• ? Booking and following up on independent inspections reports
• ? Trouble shoot technical issues
• ? Ensure contractors keep the sites tidy
• ? Photograph progress to supply to client via Rave Build.

Sub-Contractor Management

• ? Allocating sub-contractor labour
• ? Ensuring sub-contractors are site safe inducted
• ? Ensuring sub-contractors have signed a Landmark sub-contractor contract
• ? Ensuring all subcontractors have a current public liability insurance certificate and ensure that a copy of each current certificate is held at the Company office.
• ? Monitoring good site conduct
• ? Monitoring timeliness both onsite and working to deadlines

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• ? Proven experience in the New Zealand residential or commercial new build sector
• ? Strong customer service focus
• ? High attention to detail
• ? Excellent communication skills
• ? Proven track record of creating and maintaining a trade base
• ? Strong leadership and have an ability to think progressively
• ? Computer literacy

Technical / professional qualifications preferred:

• ? Carpentry Trade Qualification
• ? LBP