Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Reigate, Surrey or hybrid as appropriate
Salary: £33,000 – £42,000 dependent on experience
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hrs a week.
About us:
Rand Associates provides surveying services, consultancy, and software products to the social housing sector. Our clients include housing associations, local authorities, building contractors and consultants. We have offices in Reigate, Surrey and Birkenhead, Wirral.
We are part of the M3 Housing group of companies. M3 publish the M3NHF Schedule of Rates and a range of associated products used for property maintenance, including M3Central, M3Vision and M3Pamwin. See our website for more details.
About the role:
The Project Manager is responsible for the day to day running of surveying and related projects, as well as providing assistance across the organisation as required. This will include but will not be limited to working with other staff in the Building Surveying department to help ensure that projects are delivered on time and match or exceed the benchmarks we set ourselves in terms of quality. In particular, the role of the Project Manager will be to liaise with surveyors and clients as appropriate to ensure the smooth running of projects.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- The key duties for the Project Manager are:
- Setting up, attending and chairing meetings as required
- Minuting meetings as required
- Client and stakeholder liaison to obtain relevant files etc
- Answering ad-hoc client queries
- Overall end-to-end responsibility for the running of projects
- Manage Project Coordinator and other staff to fulfil responsibilities, including appraisals etc
- Responsibility for the maintenance of asset lists
- Maintain a register of all live projects
- Provide information in support of invoicing
- Provision of survey data to client
- Provision of necessary reports to client
- In addition, the Project Manager may be as to:
- Attendance interviews/presentations for projects
- Assistance with bidding for projects
This job description only contains the main accountabilities relating to the role and does not describe in detail all the duties required to carry them out.
The Ideal Candidate:
The ideal candidate will have good organisational skills and an experience of managing a small team. In particular, the Project Manager will have
- Personable, good communication skills and a willingness to help people.
- Continuous learning and improvement.
- A can-do attitude
Essential Requirements:
- A minimum of GCSE Grade C or above for English and Maths, or equivalent.
- Ability to commute to Reigate for the required hours.
- The ability to work as part of a team.
Desirable Skills:
- A sound working knowledge of MS Word and Excel.
- A Project Management related qualification
- A sound working knowledge of IT generally.
Benefits:
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company car or car allowance
- Company pension scheme
- Christmas bonus scheme
- Performance bonuses
- Training courses available to all, led by employee aspirations.
- Chance to learn new skills, take on further responsibilities, driven by you.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Project Manager, Project Management, Project Planning, Project Lead may also be considered for this role.
