Overview
Location: Winchester
We are seeking a passionate and focused Project Manager to join our award-winning team in Winchester. This opportunity will suit an experienced individual who is looking to progress their career, and who has a desire and ability to help us further grow our business whilst working in a supportive team within the new Winchester office. The role also involves wider co-ordination and collaboration with Ridge’s nationwide Project Management discipline.
Our project portfolio spans a wide variety of sectors ranging from internationally renowned high-tech clients to prime residential and some of the world’s best academic institutes. To operate in such an environment, we are seeking the best candidates who want to further themselves and develop a career within our business.
In return we offer opportunities to progress your career in a vibrant, thriving multidisciplinary practice, working with a diverse client base on a challenging and energising pipeline of projects.
You will be supported with learning and development and a supportive and engaging team culture. We will find ways of stretching your experience and provide autonomy to help develop your skills. We offer a hybrid working approach and a dynamic, modern informal workplace with regular social events.
Role and Responsibilities
1. Developing and building high performing teams
2. Autonomy for project delivery of all project stages
3. Developing and managing client relationships and identifying opportunities for growth
4. Identifying strategies and solutions that deliver successful outcomes for our clients
5. Identifying opportunities to innovate our services, through technology or processes
6. Raising Ridge’s profile and brand within the construction industry and region through service excellence and networking
7. Providing quality deliverables either personally or through team management
8. Demonstrating leadership qualities to our colleagues, clients and delivery partners
Experience and Skills Required
9. An entrepreneurial spirit, combined with inquisitiveness, diligence and resilience
10. Excellent communication skills
11. Ideally chartered, progressing to, or considering chartership within APM, RICS, or CIOB,
12. Significant experience in a construction, design and build project management role
13. Significant construction consultancy project management experience or experience of working with construction consultants
14. The ability to lead projects and develop long-lasting client relationships, with autonomy
15. The ability to set up and drive new projects from inception, including the early stages strategizing and team building, to on-site delivery, completion and handover
16. Exceptional communication and reporting, incorporating the use of MS Office, MS Project and/or alternative scheduling software
About You:
To be successful in this role, you will need to be an excellent communicator who can articulate complicated issues between our clients and our highly skilled project teams. You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to work flexibly, both in the office and on-site, whilst demonstrating commercial awareness and exhibiting the ability to lead teams to complete projects successfully.