Project Director - Property & Buildings

Title:

Project Director - Property & Buildings

Requisition

Amey is a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations, and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and the built environment.

Working for us, you’ll be delivering sustainable solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.

The Advisory Business forms part of the wider Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy Business of c2,000 staff. Our workload is mainly (but not solely) based in the UK. Amey Group capabilities allow us to Build and Maintain key Infrastructure and Building Assets, and we specialise in strategic long- term partnerships and contracts. This offers our people the unique opportunity to truly consider whole life cost solutions and to positively influence the communities in which we all live and work

Our people are driven by a set of strong values, based on safety, insight, and collaboration.

To develop and lead delivery teams within the Advisory business area, to meet the needs of our contracts and projects. Providing leadership, technical direction and guidance to project management teams and operational managers.

The role will require you to take full responsibility (bidding, technical delivery, margin generation) of consulting projects within the Property & Buildings sector including specialist surveys, reports, refurbishment and upgrade works as well as new build projects. The ideal candidate will have an extensive knowledge of the built environment sector and extensive experience of delivery from a consulting perspective.

Responsibility for the commercial success of the projects within the Advisory portfolio controlling budgets and managing costs associated with the production of deliverables.

Liaising with client and supplier representatives up to director level, including preparation of presentations

Leading the preparation of bids and the general work winning function, including the role of Bid Director

Provide technical guidance to project managers and design disciplines across the Property & Buildings portfolio

Assuming the role of people manager when required by the business

Input into budget preparation and thereafter accountable for delivery of schemes to programme and monthly budget

Ensure studies, investigation, design, procurement, audits and work contract supervision are carried out in accordance with relevant requirements

Prioritise and control all design activities across the business area

Provide professional and technical advice throughout the Advisory operating areas

Be an ambassador for Amey values

Work collaboratively with colleagues across Amey to develop and deliver the business plans

They will be responsible for the commercial success of the projects within the portfolio controlling budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables.

Strong evidence of formal business relationships with clients and suppliers at peer level and above and a comprehensive personal external network

Strong demonstrable evidence of the ability to use a personal external network for business benefit eg during the bidding process

Technical and Business leaders across the Amey Consulting Business

Qualifications

• Bachelors or masters degree, in Project Management or a Built Environment technical discipline
• Corporate membership of relevant Institution

Skills

• Knowledge understanding and experience of the Built Environment sector.
• Ability to manage others and to deliver multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Good ability to check work produced by others including for technical content
• Demonstrates high level of commercial awareness, including identification of scope variations and potential for additional fees
• Deep understanding of their technical background discipline and how that relates to the built environment sector
• Understanding of the input required by all disciplines to delivery designs and the associated ability to generate fees using a bottom up process
• Demonstrates an excellent understanding of Health Safety and Welfare including specific regulations
• Good understanding of the role of Principal Designer requirements under both the CDM and Building Regulation (amendment) regulations (Building safety act)
• Demonstrable ability to resolve interface clashes, and to manage clashes within their specific disciplines
• Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, tracks performance and strives to remain effective, learning from both successes and failures. Readily takes on challenges or difficult tasks and has reputation for delivering on commitments
• Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. For example, strengthens alignment and coordination between own work and others', providing well-sequenced activities and exact time frames. Foresees and resolves many potential bottlenecks and delays
• Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to…