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Job Title: Junior Project Manager
Location: Office based, Peterborough
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 per annum plus bonus
Job type: Full Time, Permanent
About us:
Westone Housing Ltd are a building and property conversion and repair company based in Peterborough. Using our own employed trades and approved contractors Westone carries out property reinstatement and rebuild services in the insurance industry plus conversions and improvements in both residential and commercial property markets.
About the Role:
We have an opportunity for an experienced and capable Junior Project Manager to join our growing business. Your place of work will be the Westone Housing Headquarters but you will be required to attend sites within its operating territory.
The primary role of the Junior Project Manager is to ensure the ongoing projects are run efficiently and profitably. Working within our Insurance Projects Department the Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing varying sized Commercial, Residential and Industrial projects of a construction or refurbishment nature on a daily basis.
You will need to ensure contractual conditions are being followed, the most critical, being that all work is completed to a high standard in a safe working environment within the programme and to the total satisfaction of the client. Customer and Client focus being key to success.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
* Project management of a project from inception to completion
* Recruiting new tradesmen to help facilitate your pipeline of project
* Help define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
* Support the development of full-scale project plans and associated communications documents
* Ensuring project compliance to CDM Regs
* Monitoring performance to meet KPI's
* Liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis
* Complete site surveys & designing plans to meet recommendations
* Estimating
* Draft and submit budget proposals and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary
* Raise & submit change orders for projects to clients
* Complete client facing meetings, presenting performance data
About you:
Qualifications and Skills:
* Experience of contract/project management and building/quantity surveying
* Possess good leadership ability and work well as part of a team
* Self-motivated, proactive with positive can-do attitude. Highly organised and excellent communicator. Someone who takes any problems or issues and deals with them promptly and without hesitation
* Good understanding of I.T systems, online databases and image management
* Full Driving license
Benefits:
* Competitive Salary
* 20 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
* Performance Bonus - Profit related
* Company pension scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Benefits Hub discounts on retailers, days out, restaurants, holidays and more
* Funded qualifications
Please click on the APPLY button to submit your CV for this role.
This role is fully office based so all candidates must be able to commute to our Peterborough office on a daily basis.
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Project Estimator, Construction Project Manager, Surveying, Material Purchasing, Estimator, Project Coordinator, Construction Estimator, Supplier Procurement, Small Works Manager, Building Contract Manager, Building Surveying, Small Works Coordinator, Insurance Claims, Claims Technician, Claims Handler, Property Insurance, Insurance Assessor, may also be considered for this role