Purpose
- Client representative accountable for the design, procurement, and delivery of projects in line with client objectives.
- Reports directly to the PM Lead and is responsible for delivering complex and/or high-value projects and programmes.
- May have an Assistant Project Manager reporting into the role, depending on project size and complexity.
- Responsible for managing the interface between design consultants and senior end-users, although design accountability remains with the design consultants.
Key Activities
- Deliver projects through the full project lifecycle in accordance with RIBA stages and GMP governance requirements.
- Establish project meeting structures and chair client meetings.
- Facilitate design and construction meetings with consultants and contractors.
- Prepare and maintain all project documentation.
- Manage the full project team to support successful project delivery.
- Act as NEC Project Manager, including:
- Responding to CEMAR notifications.
- Challenging Early Warning Notices (EWNs) and Compensation Events (CEs).
- Support program and commercial management activities within assigned programmes.
- Manage program-level risks, issues, stakeholder engagement, change control, and escalations.
- Deliver projects from design handover (concept or scheme stage) through operational handover in accordance with GMP processes and procedures.
- Define project delivery strategies aligned with client and project objectives.
- Develop and maintain project plans.
- Coordinate design development to ensure end-user requirements are achieved.
- Manage project change control and obtain approvals from Users, PPDM, and EM as required.
- Manage:
- Scope
- Schedule
- Safety
- Compliance
- Quality
- Risk
- Establish and manage reporting structures covering:
- Project status
- Risks
- Issues
- Mitigation plans
- Report project progress to the PM Lead.
- Coordinate general contractors to ensure construction activities meet design briefs.
- Support development and execution of project quality plans alongside design consultants.
- Lead implementation of project governance and project control tools during construction.
