Project Manager

Job Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Project Manager with a substantial integrated facilities management experience to join our team at the University of Greenwich.

You’ll assist in the delivery of the Project Management Service, encompassing all aspects of project delivery. You will effectively manage the Sodexo team and outsourced labour to ensure that exemplary services are delivered whilst managing the lifecycle plan and the co-ordination of asset and condition surveys, reports and cost plans.

Role Responsibility

• Oversee and monitor the delivery of the project work, utilising both in-house and out-sourced labour to deliver services that comply with best practice, mandatory and statutory requirements, contractual obligations and corporate governance
• Manage the lifecycle plan, including the co-ordination of asset and condition surveys and the preparation of associated survey reports, programmes and cost plans
• Responsible for the financial performance of the Project Management Service in line with agreed budget, including the recovery of rechargeable services/works and ensuring potential deduction risks are managed
• Management of costs impacting on the financial performance of the Service, maximise revenues and identify opportunities for growth, including the recovery of rechargeable services/works, and to ensure potential deduction risks are managed
• Collaborate and liaise with the Service Delivery and Helpdesk Manager to deliver reactive and Lifecycle requirements
• Ensure adherence to and enforcement of the site health and safety, quality and risk management policies and procedures
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, mandatory and contractual obligations in the delivery of all services, providing documentation to support for audit requirements

The Ideal Candidate

What’s essential:

• Building/Quantity Surveyor with relevant building/engineering qualification
• Previous experience in the delivery and management of project works and sub-contractors
• Proven time management organisational skills, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Articulate and confident communicator with the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships
• Commercially astute with a proactive and pragmatic approach to issue resolution
• Experience of working within NEC contractual framework
• Flexible and adaptable approach to working within the changing needs of the business.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and service excellence

Package Description

£50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more!

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process.