Project Director in Manchester

Job Description

Role Profile – Project Director

The Role

A Project Director is an essential member of the development team. A Project Director will have overall responsibility for delivery of complex masterplans and developments.

Being a Project Director for this leading Urban Regeneration business is exciting, rewarding and challenging. A Project Director will have experience in delivering complex, long term and sustainable places. A Project Director will have excellent communication skills and be able to form strong relationships with partners and other stakeholders. A Project Director will directly manage a Project Manager and the ability to get on with people and successfully lead a team is essential.

A Project Director will have demonstrated the ability to contribute to work winning and work closely with the Director of Project Management, Regional Director, Development Managers / Directors and New Homes Team to ensure the successful delivery of projects and continued growth of the business throughout the North West.

The NW team embraces an open, honest and proud culture which defines the way we behave and go about our work. We have 5 team principles which underpin this culture.

1. Enjoy what we do and shout about it
2. Be bright, early and prepared
3. Show respect and care
4. Encourage diverse thinking and ideas
5. Learn from successes and challenges

These principles come naturally to the team and it’s essential that a project manager embraces these principles and the culture within the team.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities for a Project Director are wide ranging ensuring successful delivery of our developments and growth of the business. The Project Director will work with a Senior or Project Manager to ensure the successful delivery of individual projects within a wider development masterplan but will maintain overall responsibility.

Exact responsibilities will change dependant on the specific requirements of a project including:

• Leading work bidding for new developments alongside the Development Management team.
• Establishing procurement strategies for projects and ensuring compliance.
• Establishing governance procedures to ensure developments are successfully controlled within budgets and expenditure approvals and delivered to meet stakeholder requirements.
• Taking overall responsibility for managing the development budget ensuring the project proceeds within agreed costs.
• Leading on establishing and concluding necessary third‑party agreements, agreement for lease and funding agreements.
• Ensure neighbourly matters (rights to light, party walls etc) are understood and progressed as required.
• Take overall responsibility for delivery in accordance with protocols and gateway approvals.
• Establish procurement strategy of main contractors and oversee conclusion of building contract documentation.
• Establish insurance requirements and ensure these are procured.
• Manage the approvals process to allow a start on site in accordance with protocols.
• Establish quality requirements and arrangements for monitoring construction quality and compliance with the client’s brief.
• Ensure payments under the building contract, drawdowns under funding agreements and manage cashflow expenditure are being managed.
• Ensure the completion and handover process is being managed.
• Ensure the completion of any snagging / defects is being managed.
• Provide progress reports for board meetings and forecasts.
• Attend and contribute to regular scheme reviews and quarterly forecast meetings.
• Ensure lessons learnt from projects are shared with colleagues.
• Develop key relationships with partners and the regional property / construction market.
• Build an understanding of general market conditions, challenges and trends and share with the team.
• Consider areas where we can innovate, carry out research and development and challenge our ways of working and procedures.

Career Development

Our client is passionate about creating opportunities for everyone in the business to develop and grow. Development in the role could potentially lead the person to the next step of Technical Director. Career development is supported by a structured career pathway and access to our buddy/mentoring programme.

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