Job Description

What will you be doing:
You will be responsible and accountable for providing project direction to ensure the safe, successful, cost efficient and timely delivery of a variable number of projects at any time, enabling and providing as necessary, effective risk management and problem resolution.
You will oversee, provide coaching and personal input to client, professional and supplier relationships for assigned projects, ensuring development of skills for ISG delivery staff.
Ensure adequate resources for the assigned projects, ensuring appropriate levels of skill, especially for design and engineering, facilitating skills transference with the assigned project team staff to develop their recruitment, selection and resourcing capability.
Provide guidance and to personally manage, as appropriate, risk and client and professional expectations through early identification of issues from project reporting, project meetings and other inputs.
Proactively set health & safety standards and culture for all assigned projects and to take appropriate action where necessary to reduce safety risk.
You will be involved in winning work and ensure bid teams are fully briefed and also debriefed, sharing learning and feedback with the team and divisional leadership.
Effective resourcing where you will plan skill requirements for assigned projects, managing and personally working with the project teams to recruit and select quality employees within budget and headcount (permanent and where necessary, agency or freelance), adhering to company recruitment and selection processes and agency preferred suppliers.
You will also have a big focus on project set up & close out, maintaining best practice within health & safety, quality project reporting and effective risk management and people management.
Commercial awareness: understanding and ability to make profit whilst retaining relationships and company values
Quality driven; demonstrates attitude and experience of delivery projects based on quality, attention to detail and client satisfaction.
Prior construction design and or design management experience or Architectural, Structural or M&E qualifications
Recognised qualification, preferably in structural or civil engineering.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Knowledge of research and academic buildings such as scientific, data centres, life sciences and or medical Experience of highly serviced buildings including an understanding of the relationships of lab spaces and in particular: primary labs; direct support; write up areas; interactive spaces; etc. Evidence of strong interpersonal and people management skills are essential Ability to understand the wider picture whilst devoting attention to detail Proactive, diligent, able and willing to think ahead