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Job Description
Project Management Responsibilities
Project Handover from Estimating
- Review architectural drawings for potential build sequence and detailing issues.
- Ensure specifications have been fully adhered to during estimating, including any exclusions.
- Verify that estimations align with building regulations.
- Develop a project program encompassing design, procurement, and manufacturing durations.
Design Period
- Periodically assess design development drawings for possible build sequence and detailing issues.
- Review design development drawings to propose cost-efficient design solutions.
- Validate structural design calculations for specific quality assurance (QA) items to be included within the project Inspection and Test Plan (ITP).
- Establish the project ITP and QA documentation.
Procurement Period
- Identify longer lead items and expedite approval from the design team within required lead-in times.
- Monitor the timescale for placing orders leading up to the commencement date.
- Conduct cursory checks on material schedules for anomalies.
- Periodically monitor fabrication timescales for both company and supplier materials to ensure adherence to agreed delivery dates.
- Coordinate with suppliers regarding company and site logistical requirements.
- Collaborate with hire companies to organize project access requirements.
- Review the project installation program and update it in accordance with the agreed install sequence.
Installation Period
- Based on project design and site conditions, develop method statements and risk assessments for proposed methods.
- Ensure all on-site work complies with safe working practices and current Health and Safety legislation, while remaining vigilant for change or potential hazards with risk assessments in place.
- Monitor project progress versus program on a weekly basis to ensure completion on time, within budget, and to the required quality standard.
- Maintain alignment with the agreed site visitation program with Site Managers, ensuring prompt reporting of contract variations.
- Coordinate and manage the site team to implement Health and Safety, quality, program, and cost controls.
- Ensure timely response to project correspondence and contractual obligations.
- Maintain regular communication with client teams to uphold customer satisfaction through collaboration.
- Verify completion of site documentation by the installation team.
- Provide relevant site information and paperwork to the appropriate department.
- Prepare and distribute weekly progress reports to clients and company management.
- Regularly report project progress and Health & Safety matters to the Contracts Manager.
- Ensure compliance with accident/incident procedures, including proper documentation.
- Coordinate with Quantity Surveyors on final accounts, subcontract orders, interim valuations, and variations.
- Ensure installations adhere to System Company procedures and working drawings.
- Coordinate the installation of all specialist bought-in items (e.g., automatic doors, silicone applicators) with the main contractor, resolving all attendances.
- Conduct inspections in line with the QA plan to ensure a high-quality installation and finished product.
Post-Installation
- Review as-built details, products, and information against construction issue drawings, reporting any changes to the O&M coordinator.
- Compare final account figures against the cost plan and report findings.
- Review the entire project to identify any inefficiencies that may inform the development of company services.
