Project Manager

The opportunity

Project: This is a refurbishment project of a grade II listed colosseum - a hospitality and entertainment venue with a main auditorium capacity of 1,200.

At Mace, we bring people together to help connect friends and families, to support communities and businesses and leave a positive legacy wherever we work.

We are currently delivering exciting projects within the arts, culture and heritage sector we are now looking to grow our business by bringing in passionate individuals who will thrive and excel as we continue to redefine the boundaries of ambition.

Whilst we need to increase our programme and project management disciplines as part of our consultancy and construction teams, we want people to join us that will see every challenge as an opportunity to dream bigger and bring our ambitions to life.

You can see the impact that we have when you look at the skylines that form cities around the world, to the infrastructure that we depend on to live, work and play.

We are seeking talented individuals that want to join us as senior project managers that can work with us on our arts, culture and heritage projects. Joining Mace is to join a company that believes in your individuality, your potential, and we will support you in developing opportunities and building your career.

We are actively seeking people that have transferable skills to support us in driving change and diverse thinking in the industry.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the successful delivery of the project or programme, achieving high client satisfaction scores.

• Directing integrated project teams that bring together people with one vision across a number of companies and stakeholders.

• Ensuring a safe and collaborative working environment where people thrive.

• Assisting in the leading multidisciplinary teams in matrix organisations to meet client outcomes.

• Managing and outperforming against the contract (typically JCT/NEC).

• Refining and developing the project brief.

• Preparing the project execution plan (PEP).

• Preparing and maintaining a master programme from inception to completion to record principal activities and identify critical dates.

• Monitoring and reporting on the progress of the consultants and contractors against the master programme.

• Overseeing the design programme and monitor the production of information in a timely manner.

• Contributing to the review of project performance and production of reporting to drive continuous improvement.

• Assigning and following-up project actions, for example, reporting project progress, monitoring costs and progress, acceptance of project-specific procedures.

• Maintaining records, traceable files and arrange to the archive on the closure of the project as appropriate.

• Being a role model and championing social value initiatives.

• Ensuring compliance against our quality management system to ensure we are meeting client outcomes and standards.

About you

You have a degree qualification in a relevant discipline and a member of a professional body institute such as RICS, CIOB or APM. You have experience in contract administration and using various forms of contract, in particular, NEC will be preferable.

You have experience in managing complex projects with arts, culture and heritage sector clients and thrive on delivering positive outcomes. You are digitally savvy, can build lasting client relationships and work well as part of a team. You will have experience in delivering projects in a consultancy environment, keen to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Mace has to offer.

We are actively seeking people that have transferable skills to support us in driving change and diverse thinking in the industry.