Rider Levett Bucknall Careers

Description

Department Overview:

Our Birmingham Project Management team is looking for exciting and enterprising individuals to join the team on their exciting journey, working across a range of sectors including Education, Healthcare, Commercial, Residential, Retail and Industrial. We continually focus on new business opportunities and routes into the market.

The team are a multi-disciplinary outfit, taking projects from inception through to completion. The roles and variety of the projects give the team members the opportunity to expand their knowledge and develop their careers.

Overview of Role:

We are currently recruiting for Project Managers to join our organisation. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals to join and strengthen our team.

This role presents an excellent opportunity for a proactive individual to take responsibility for providing all project management services on a number of interesting projects in Birmingham and the West Midlands region.

Key Responsibilities:  

• To support business objectives of delivering value for money in all circumstances
• To carry out assigned duties efficiently and in accordance with processes and procedures
• Comply with established procurement/commercial/contractual strategies
• Take personal responsibility for complying with Environmental, Health, Safety, Security and Quality Standards

• Professional Skills:

• Management and preparation of key stage reports from feasibility through to completion and post-handover
• Preparation of various programmes
• Management of meetings, taking and preparation of minutes
• Preparation of progress reports and presentation at monthly client meetings
• Running a competitive tender process including managing queries from tendering contractors
• Managing multiple projects on ‘LIVE’ operational sites
• Assistance with the preparation of contract documents
• Management of multi-disciplinary project teams
• Working knowledge of various forms of building contracts
• Experience of Administering building contracts

Person Specification:

The ideal candidate will demonstrate a positive, proactive approach to the role, A real team player who will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.

Essential:

Construction Project Management degree or a similar construction related qualification with extensive technical delivery experience in a similar role gained within a consultancy or an end user client.

• Progress towards Chartered RICS and/or MAPM, MCIOB status
• Ability to identify and develop potential opportunities to secure more business for RLB
• Well organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent customer service, communication and client/external interface skills
• A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering to deadlines
• A team player with a ‘can do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable and flexible

At RLB, our aim is to create and enhance an inclusive workplace culture where diversity is not only accepted but valued and built into our culture, creating opportunity for all. In order to support this, we recognise the importance of flexible and agile working and are open to having conversations on how this could work for you and our business from day one.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during any stage of the application or interview process, please contact our recruitment team at: [email protected]