Senior Project Manager

About Mace

Mace is a leading international consultancy and construction company that delivers projects across the globe. Our purpose is to redefine the boundaries of ambition, creating places that are responsible and bring transformative impact to our people, communities, and societies.

Our Values

We are guided by our values, which shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey. Our values are:

Safety First - Going Home Safe and Well

• You will be a leading advocate of Mace's value of safety first, and be accountable for leading and maintaining exceptional safety, quality, cost, programme, sustainability, and project compliance standards.
• You will possess advanced technical expertise in local health and safety rules and regulations relevant to project portfolio.
• You will champion a diverse and inclusive working environment and understand the importance of the wellbeing of the people you manage.

Client Focus - Deliver on Our Promise

• You will lead the delivery of key assignments and defined business areas, providing strategic direction and monitoring delivery aligned with overall vision and objectives.
• You will be the relationship owner and primary contact for Mace executive team engagement, and responsible for ensuring efficient governance to achieve our strategic priorities.
• You will be responsible for key client relationship management and converting the client's vision into a deliverable onsite plan.
• Determining and arranging project management, technical services, and external resources required for the project on an individual and team basis on behalf of client organisation.
• Collaborating with the team/s (client, design team, and other consultants, and contractor) and all stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of the project in line with all expectations, communicating strategies to the team.
• Demonstrating Mace's value of safety first, exhibiting visible safety behaviours, and using safety moments and Mace's HSW framework.
• Providing subject matter knowledge to support the team/s from the broader Mace projects and business units to assist in ensuring the best project outcome.
• Procuring and managing design and wider consultant team/s and project stakeholders to ensure effective completion of responsibilities, including project brief/scope, fees, processing claims, deliverable, and/or project variations, etc.
• Actively supporting collaboration between all parties.
• Producing design and authorities programme (or works with a planner to produce) to be integrated with procurement and delivery programme.
• Managing the timely and successful delivery to programme from project inception/brief, through design development and planning, contractor procurement, and construction phase in accordance with the overall delivery program and agreed project milestones and is accountable for the scope of works relating to the project portfolios.
• Delivering the project objectives in line with the project execution plan, leads and manages the project team/s and relevant stakeholders to achieve strategic project key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Preparing and modifying where necessary project plans and keeps them updated and relevant over the course of the project/s.
• Overseeing project timeframes and budgets, ensuring successful delivery of projects, highlighting any risks, challenges, and mitigations.
• Collaborating with relevant stakeholders and ensures robust quality systems are in place and suitably managed and monitored in line with service excellence.
• Directing and recording relevant meetings, providing relevant parties with contextual information and analysis.
• Partnering with relevant stakeholders and is actively involved in risk management and mitigation treatments.
• Effectively coordinating and communicating with all project stakeholders, ensuring completion of responsibilities/tasks and that appropriate standards and records are documented and maintained.
• Taking ownership of project changes, as and when necessary, tracking project changes and ensuring they are progressed and formalised within the agreed timeframes.
• Ensuring approved handover documentation is coordinated and provided prior to practical completion.
• Promoting and driving the businesses priorities through construction to production, digital, and data and responsible business.
• Actively networking and seeking understanding of best practice, utilising the full depth of knowledge of Mace group, the centres of excellence, Mace way control centre, and knowledge hub.

Integrity - Always Do the Right Thing

• You will have full budgetary oversight and ensure operations are fiscally and ethically viable and meet organisational and legislative compliance obligations.
• You will directly influence long-term development of strategy for a function or Business Unit (BU), creating a sustainable business future.
• You will commit to making a positive impact for our people, our clients, and our planet, and take ownership for holding others to account who do not uphold the Mace values.

Create Opportunity - For Our People to Excel

• You will mentor, coach, and develop your project team and provide an environment to share knowledge and experience.
• You will actively network, innovate, and seek understanding of best practice, utilising the full depth of knowledge of Mace group, the centres of excellence, Mace way control centre, and knowledge hub.
• You will provide expert technical advice and leadership support to delivery teams, creating a culture of ownership, promoting roles and responsibilities.

Requirements

• Proficient knowledge and expertise in specific sector/market of project/role.
• Relevant technical qualification/certification for project portfolio/s.
• Sound technical expertise in health and safety executive (HSE) (or local equivalent) rules and specific sector/market regulations relevant to project/portfolio.
• Knowledge of consultancy, construction, infrastructure, and property sectors/markets and an understanding of estimating, scheduling, contracts administration, procurement, commercial controls, and reporting.
• Seeks opportunities for implementing improved working practices.
• Seeks out opportunities for service differentiation and implements.
• Manages relevant stakeholders for project/s.
• Develops effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Uses advanced communication skills to collaborate with others to guide others to achieve project key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Good interpersonal skills to prepare reports, negotiate, and build relationships with key stakeholders.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills for resolving planning, estimating, contract administration, and procurement issues within construction and design activities.
• Developed commercial and financial skills and an ability to build up fee proposals and project workbooks (where appropriate and developing commercial skills where not).
• Competencies include interpersonal ability, influencing and negotiation, problem-solving and analytical thinking, technology and process, verbal communication, written communication.
• Understands personal strengths and weaknesses, seeks learning and support where appropriate.
• Substantial previous experience in a project management role on medium-sized or complex projects, or leading smaller projects.
• Experience in the construction delivery phase of projects.
• MCIOB/MAPM/MRICS/MICE or local equivalent.
• Tertiary qualifications in related (project management and/or construction-related discipline), non-related degree or equivalent professional experience/apprenticeship, combined with a demonstrable intermediate level of role knowledge.
• Appropriate Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card (or local equivalent).