Project Manager

The Vacancy

Wates are looking for a Project Manager to join our Construction team in the Midlands area.

If you are Project Manager 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 Managers 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 Manager you will:

• Develop, control, and ensure delivery against the project budgets including profit, preliminaries and procurements. Implement detailed programmes and schedules which allow accurate monitoring and reporting of progress
• Secure and manage the appropriate resources to deliver the project / scheme effectively and efficiently in a professional manner to ensure successful delivery within project constraints.
• Implement and manage the development of the Project Quality Plan, Trade Quality Plans, and Defect rectification procedures
• Ensure there is a successful and smooth handover of the project, including support to customer/ end user throughout the handover process.

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/

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.