Graduate Building Surveyor + 2 Jobs UK
Canterbury, Kent
2gether Support Solutions
2gether Support Solutions have an exciting opportunity for a Construction Project Manager to join our business to cover the Kent region. The company will offer you excellent benefits such as; 25 days annual leave, employee benefits scheme including childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, health cash plan and access to thousands of retail discounts, a structured career pathway and progression opportunities and a paid DBS.
This managerial role supports the delivery of capital across the healthcare estates ensuring that they are delivered on time, on budget and meeting client expectations. You will ensure that good stakeholder engagement and governance is in place for all projects with safe delivery being at the forefront of all work.
At 2gether Support Solutions, we put customer service and quality at the heart of all that we do. We have strong social enterprise principles and the profits we make go back into supporting our staff, improving services for patients and other community activities in East Kent. 2gether Support Solutions is a new, wholly owned subsidiary company of one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
The key responsibilities of this managerial role will include:
- Leading and coordinating the work programme and providing construction project management support/leadership in accordance with the Trust’s strategic plan.
- Managing external consultants (architects, structural engineers, quantity surveyors, mechanical and electrical engineers) engaged to ensure delivery on time and within budget.
- Managing teams (including user groups) and consultants, develop/procure and building in standardised building elements, plant, equipment and components with proven acceptable performance, without loss inflexibility in design and utilisation of space.
- Ensuring that building/engineering designs conform to current NHS and statutory legislation and guidance.
- Taking responsibility and accountability for the management of the budget, ensuring that the project takes into consideration the whole life costing.
- Supporting the Assistant Director of Strategic Estates with the implementation of the Estates element of the Trusts Clinical Strategy and ensuring that developments are planned to cause minimum disruption to patient services.
- Delivering excellent communications with all internal and external stakeholders.
- Maintaining high personal, professional and contemporary standards and knowledge of current practices, technology and legislation, relating to the construction industry.
For this construction role we are looking for candidates with the following skills and attributes:
- Proven experience of successfully managing building/ construction projects to include people, finance and materials.
- Educated to degree level in either Engineering, Surveying, Architecture, Building or a member one of the accredited bodies for those industries or substantial work experience would be considered instead.
- Drive and focus to succeed with the ability to multi-task across a range of highly complex issues
- Due to the nature of the role, it is essential to have a Driving License.
The recruitment process for this role in the construction industry will consist of a telephone interview and a face to face interview. To apply for this managerial online today or call the Cohesion Recruitment team for more information.
2gether Support Solutions is an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. We reserve the right to close this managerial advert early if we can appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
