The Client
Since their inception my client have established themselves as one of London’s leading contractors within the cut and carve, refurbishment, new build and prime fit out sectors. They were established over 15 years ago by a group of directors who were formerly part of the senior management team at one of the UK’s largest contractors. Disagreeing with the route the business was going they decided to start their own contractor and they have since gone from strength to strength. Initially they started as a specialist in workplace CAT A, CAT B fit outs and commercial refurbishments but gradually started undertaking projects with more structural alterations. Fast forward 20 years and a typical project will be taking place on a ‘postage stamp’ location with challenging access, elements of façade retention, basement excavation, adding/ removing floors, relocation/ installation of the core or even a demolition and new build followed by a prime fit out or sympathetic restoration.
Our client have strived to maintain a ‘family feel’ within the business with emphasis being placed on all directors and senior management getting to build strong relationships with their teams. Due to their organic growth they have established three key divisions who hold regular social and team building events with each business unit promoting a spirit of comradery and togetherness. The benefit of each division is that they are biased towards a client split as opposed to a sector split meaning each division will have a wide variety of projects on site at any one time. The business has established a turnover of circa £150m.
Roles & Responsibilites
- Attend, and chair where appropriate, meetings with designers, specialist contractors and other team members.
- Contribute to the regular Project Report and attend Project Meetings.
- Review designers and contractor’s drawings for completeness of information and compliance with contract requirements (specification, ER, etc).
- Organise and control the effective release of information where there are shortfalls or errors in the design.
- Check ongoing installation for compliance with contract requirements.
- Provide expertise in planning and executing the building services engineering commissioning.
- Responsible for the delivery of the building services engineering works on their projects.
- Provide guidance in the production of the project programme.
- Prepare and monitor progress against a Commissioning programme
- Produce monthly Engineering Services Status Report for their project(s).
- Contribute Value Engineering skills and assist the Financial Manager in costing variation works.
- Propose appropriate specialist contractors, systems and manufacturers for the project.
- Contribute engineering services content to proposal team for inclusion in Tender Proposals.
- Represent the company at Pre-qualification and Tender meetings and presentations.
- Take on the role of mentor to junior staff.
- Internal reporting to line manager including keep fully informed of issues and potential risks to the business.
- Skilled in environmental issues including BREEM, LEAD etc.
- Working knowledge of Design and Build form of contract and other forms of contract together with their differing risk and opportunities
Ideal Candidate
- 5 years’ industry experience
- Experience working in the aviation industry.
- Good general knowledge of building services engineering systems and their implementation.
- Good communicator.
- Competent in Health and Safety management.
- Programme oriented.
- Eye for quality.
- Good organiser and able to implement systems.
- Prepared to be innovative.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Ability to build relationships e.g. marketing relationships with external professionals and clients, strategic relationships with contractors and suppliers.
- Develop and contribute strategic thinking at Project level.
