About Southwark
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
The Role:
We have an opportunity to recruit a Project Manager to join our Asset Management Team working within the Major Works Team. The post holder will be responsible for providing leadership, direction, and motivation for a multi-disciplinary major works delivery and project team comprising professional designers, project staff, engineers, customer-facing staff, consultants, and suppliers to facilitate high levels of service delivery.
- Manages customer expectations and achieves agreed standards of quality, workmanship, and customer focus.
- To lead and manage borough-wide and /or area-based contracts, Monitor and control the expenditure of all delegated Capital and revenue budgets for investment Programmes.
- To manage, motivate, supervise, develop, and support all staff within the remit of the post-holder.
- Participate and contribute to the wider development of the borough and Residents' Service through liaison with the Area management team and other stakeholders.
To be successful in this role you will require:
- Develop, co-ordinate and implement a customer focused, well designed and cost-effective Investment Programme, schemes and work packages, working with Asset Management team, and including procurement of contractors and consultants as necessary.
- To be responsible for the performance of borough wide and Area Housing investment based schemes and work packages and to ensure financial control.
- To co-ordinate with associated work programmes such as planned preventative maintenance, voids, regeneration projects and ad-hoc projects.
- To ensure appropriate monitoring systems are in place and to prepare reports for Senior Management, Cabinet and Area Forums as required.
- Responsible for the overall delivery of all individual projects, schemes or work packages.
- Manage Quality Control issues for individual projects and make appropriate recommendations for change.
- Leads on residents’ consultation process for proposed works packages.
- Oversees the detailed programming of contracts and work packages.
Additional salary details
This is a 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
Recruitment timetable
Closing Date: We reserve the right to shortlist before the closing date based on application volumes.
Closing date: 29/04/2024
Interview Date: W/C 06/04/2024
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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