Project Manager

Salary
£45,000 – £60,000
Start date
Immediate
Location
London office
Contract
Permanent, Full-Time
Applications close
31st August 2026 at 12:00am

As Project Manager, working under the direction of the Contracts Manager and in conjunction with the wider project team, you will help ensure the profitable and efficient execution of the project.
Your core responsibilities will include:

  • Managing site records, including labour returns and daily diaries
  • Carrying out scaffold inspections and overseeing quality control across all works
  • Leading on health and safety, including toolbox talks, site inductions, PPE issue and monitoring, accident book records, and liaising with the London Building Safety Group during site visits; ensuring safe working practices on site, producing risk assessments and COSHH sheets where necessary, and reporting accidents to the Contracts Manager.
  • Ensuring compliance with CDM requirements and maintaining appropriate records
  • Acting as the main daily point of contact for clients, stakeholders and other interested parties
  • Supervising subcontractors on site, particularly during scaffold erection and dismantling, and coordinating and controlling the activities of subcontractors and suppliers in conjunction with the Contracts Manager.
  • Overseeing cleaning, repair and conservation teams, liaising closely with team leaders
  • Attending monthly client meetings (usually with the Contracts Manager. in attendance) and technical site walkaround meetings with the design team, typically fortnightly but more frequently where needed
  • Formulating project programmes for reporting and monitoring purposes, and implementing target programmes for teams
  • Coordinating site logistics, including deliveries, storage and disposal of plant and materials on site
  • Producing CVIs, Early Warning Notices and Compensation Events
  • Preparing monthly valuations for submission to the client's QS
  • Surveying facades to help schedule works and variations
  • Carrying out site surveys with the Contracts Manager. and estimating team to support estimating for new works, including meeting clients and specialists and attending post-tender interviews for work within the project team

You'll supervise site activities on a day-to-day basis, ensuring all work is carried out in accordance with the appropriate specifications, drawings and method statements, and that operatives and other interested parties are properly briefed on their tasks. You'll help implement and enforce the company's policies on health and safety and quality management, ensuring CDM requirements are complied with and appropriate records maintained. You'll liaise directly with clients on the project, keep appropriate records, and ensure the Contracts Manager is fully informed of relevant matters, working in conjunction with them to achieve efficient servicing of the project and dissemination of information. You'll also help facilitate discipline and liaison between the operative workforce and the Contracts Manager. More broadly, you'll promote the best interests of the company at all times, and undertake such specific tasks as may reasonably be allocated by the Contracts Manager.

Experience required

  • Proven experience as a Project Manager or Senior Site Manager within the construction industry, ideally with experience of historic building conservation or restoration projects
  • Strong working knowledge of health and safety legislation, including CDM Regulations, with experience producing risk assessments and COSHH sheets
  • Experience managing subcontractors and suppliers, and coordinating multiple trades on site
  • Confident communicator, comfortable liaising directly with clients, stakeholders and design teams
  • Experience producing project programmes, valuations and change control documentation (e.g. CVIs, Early Warning Notices and Compensation Events)
  • Comfortable working under the direction of a Contracts Manager. while managing day-to-day site responsibility independently