Project Director

The Vacancy

Wates are looking for a Project Director to join our London Construction team on an exciting new project in London.

If you are Project Director with proven technical skills looking for an opportunity to challenge the norm, bring fresh new ideas and elevate yourself within the industry then join us and help to create tomorrow together.

This is a great opportunity to progress your career as part of a talented, diverse, and supportive team.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Project Directors are a valuable part of our business, the focus of this role will be to provide visible leadership, insight, direction and foresight in the safe and profitable delivery of schemes, while also providing excellent customer satisfaction and successfully develop a team.

As our Project Director you will:

• Lead the project team and manage the supply chain to deliver projects to time, cost and quality targets and standards
• Lead, manage and deliver operational excellence and efficiency through appropriate use of leadership indicator health check reviews through the Bid, Pre-construction and Construction phases of the project.
• Deploy the use of digital technology and propose new modern methods of construction to reduce programmes and ensure health and safety risks are removed during the construction process.
• Communicate with both internal and external stakeholders, maintaining customer relationships, understanding contract terms and liaising with consultants and business development.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

You will be an experienced Project Director with experience in delivering large value complex project exceeding £100m. Your ability to communicate effectively is essential for managing customer relationships, and you should possess strong planning and organization skills to deliver operational excellence and efficiency along with a thorough understanding of contract terms.

You need to have strong leadership skills and confidence in your ability to lead, influence, and communicate with others to achieve targets. Financial awareness is also required to meet targets, along with a desire to continuously improve safety and sustainability performance. An understanding of the construction process impact on carbon and will be able to articulate how to reduce embodied carbon and carbon during construction operations.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working 
• Car Allowance / Company Car (subject to Role/Grade) 
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates) 
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity. 

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.