The posting
Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Use of the full range of Project Management Process.
- Proactive day to day responsibility for small-medium sized projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision and supporting larger projects and programmes of work.
- Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
- Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor/consultant selection and contract documentation.
- Support risk and value management, including facilitation of workshops and project risk registers.
- Contract administration for relevant contract provisions, monthly reporting and chairing project meetings.
- Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
- Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business, particularly Health & Safety and Quality Assurance.
- Undertake service in compliance with client’s corporate governance procedures where applicable.
- Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
- Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
- Communicating effectively with all stakeholders to ensure that all parties are kept informed on all relevant matters impacting and influencing projects.
- Support Senior PM team as required.
- Beginning to provide advice on procurement and contracts.
- Responsibility for, and must be committed to promoting, protecting, developing and enabling the business and your colleagues, within the parameter of your job role
- Support bid and tender preparation and business development.
- Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service level.
- Starting to provide leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.
- Starting to mentor and coach team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career.
- Developing and managing the Project Programmes and obtaining the buy-in of all stakeholders.
Knowledge & Skills Required:
- The ability to:
- Deliver results in a client facing role including:
- Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
- Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
- Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
- Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
- Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.
- Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
- Starting to lead a team.
- Negotiate, influence and deliver results in a client facing role.
- Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.
- Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines
- Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain
- Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Ideally degree qualified (industry or non-industry)
- MAPM / MRICS other equivalent qualification or experience.
- Supporting Project Management Qualifications such as PRINCE2 Practitioner / Certified Project Manager / MSP / Risk Management.
- Some formal Leadership training.
- 5+ years’ experience (at least 3 years post qualification).
- Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
- Strong experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC
- Strong technical project management skills and provide leadership to others on PM Processes: Risk, Opportunities and Issues, Planning/programming, Change control, Reporting, Stakeholder management and Communications, Value Management.
- Good experience of delivering multiple or complex projects and programmes of work through the entire project life cycle.
- Sound understanding of HS&E legislation including some formal training/qualifications.
- Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.
- Developing interpersonal and team building skills. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff.
- Monitoring developments in project and programme management field - new processes / alternative training/ new areas of work - examples such as BIM, Soft Landings and agile project management.
- Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.
- An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
- Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.
Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
Note for Recruitment Agencies:
We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.
