Project Manager, Cheltenham

Overview

Role Overview:

In a Nutshell…

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Project Manager to join our team within Vistry Cotswolds, at our office in Cheltenham. As our Project Manager you will will manage key information, engineering and working drawing packages to enable any given residential development to be built as intended and to obtain all necessary technical approvals.

 

We are pleased to say, this role can accommodate agile working arrangements.

 

Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you…

• Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
• Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
• Agile working possible
• Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Competitive contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
• Share incentive schemes
• Employee rewards portal with many more benefits…

In return, what we would like from you…

• Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
• Good level of IT literacy with experience of AutoCAD, Outlook, Excel and Word. Revit experience would be an advantage.
• Excellent organisation and time management with ability to multitask.
• Commercially aware.
• Ability to make decisions within authority.
• Able to lead and work effectively in a team.
• Experienced in analysing problems and delivering solutions.
• Strong mathematical ability.
• Professional aptitude and appearance at all times.
• Strives for continuous improvement for the benefit of the company.
• Driven to achieve internal and external customer satisfaction.
• Able to work under pressure, and accept criticism of work.
• Good level of communication skills, with the necessity to liaise with internal staff and external bodies.
• Be practical and methodical with good analytical skills.
• Willing to work extra to meet deadlines as and when the business needs require it.

More about the Project Manager role…

• Manage sites as agreed with the Technical Director from design stage to post completion, in line with the delivery programme / key date schedule.
• Review reports from Land department and manage associated requirements from design to completion.
• Manage consultants to deliver the Civil Engineering designs, Structural Engineering and contamination remediation requirements.
• Manage consultants to deliver the house type working drawings packs and liaise with key suppliers to provide ancillary drawing information for tender and construction.
• Undertaking value engineering assessments and ensure buildability of designs.
• Manage submission of designs and securing technical approvals for agreements such as S104, S38 and S278.
• Following technical approval being granted, managing timely completion of legal agreements with external solicitors.
• Manage progression of utility designs from land handover to initial mains laying onto site, ensuring legal agreements completed in timely manner.
• Provide information for Housing Association contracts and attendance of progress meetings.
• Manage the accuracy of information supplied by all departments to ensure no discrepancies.
• Submission of all information to NHBC and obtaining approval of same, obtaining SAP Assessments together with PEA and EPC’s, Secure by Design Approval and Robust Details.
• Obtaining and collating all ancillary specialist drawings including heating and plumbing, kitchens, stairs, joists, trusses, lintels, pc ground floors and pc upper floors.
• Attending Pre-tender meetings and briefing all departments on matters relating to the engineering and working drawings.
• Manage information and liaise with Architects, Civil and Structural Engineers, ensuring consistency between various designs.
• Prepare all drawings and documents for Pre-tender meetings in line with the Regional Key Date Schedule.
• To monitor and report technical and development fees.
• Resolve all technical related queries including conducting site visits as required.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us…

At Vistry Group, we build more than homes. We develop sustainable communities across all sectors of the UK housing market through our leading housing brands Bovis Homes, Linden Homes and Countryside Homes. Delivered through Vistry Housebuilding, Countryside Partnerships and Vistry Works with the support of Vistry Services, our values of integrity, caring, and quality continue to shape all we do.

 

We’re proud that our UK Green Building Council membership, 2021 Large Housebuilder of the Year award and status as a UK top-five housebuilder with a five-star House Builders Federation (HBF) customer satisfaction rating allows us to transform land into thriving spaces. We’re also proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. From memories and communities to worthwhile careers, we’re making Vistry.

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Job Type: Permanent – Full Time
Location Detail: Cleeve Hall,Cheltenham Road, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, GL52 8GD