Project Manager (Healthcare)
Posted 1 day ago by Rubicon Consulting
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire
Summary: The Project Manager (Healthcare) role at Rubicon Consulting involves leading healthcare projects on a 3-month contract in Cheshire. The position requires managing project teams, ensuring delivery within budget and quality standards, and maintaining strong client relationships. The role emphasizes commercial control, compliance with health and safety standards, and the development of business opportunities. The successful candidate will be responsible for project profitability and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead healthcare projects, ensuring delivery to budget, time, and quality requirements.
- Manage matrix teams and resources, both in-house and outsourced, for project delivery.
- Assume commercial control and take profit and loss responsibility for allocated projects.
- Develop and manage project plans, including Work Method Statements and risk assessments.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety standards and contractual obligations.
- Coordinate with consultants and subcontractors to ensure project requirements are met.
- Prepare and issue documentation for tenders and contracts, and evaluate submissions.
- Promote effective integration between project teams and other departments.
- Gather and provide information for reporting purposes to meet contractual obligations.
- Maintain project administrative activities and quality assurance procedures.
- Participate in out-of-hours management as part of the business continuity plan.
- Manage supply chain performance and provide feedback to procurement teams.
- Support integration with other contracts and travel as required.
Key Skills:
- RICS, CIOB, CEng, or equivalent qualification in a construction-related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in contracting and/or project management consultancy.
- Strong team leadership and communication skills.
- Client-facing and customer service skills with the ability to manage varied requirements.
- Technical competence in project management delivery environments.
- Financial acumen with experience in project budget management and P&L responsibility.
- Quality-driven approach to project delivery and communication.
- Experience in direct line/matrix management of technical and professional staff.
- Previous client contact experience in negotiation and monitoring.
- Willingness to comply with security vetting requirements.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Cheshire West and Chester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Rubicon Consulting is currently recruiting for a Project Manager (Healthcare) on a 3 Month Contract, based in Cheshire
Role Summary
To lead projects, delivering project solutions to budget, time and quality requirements. To manage matrix managed project teams to deliver various project delivery solutions (e.g. as principle / prime contractor, management fee or under traditional contracting or design and build arrangements) effectively utilising in-house resource (white and blue collar) and sub-contract arrangements as appropriate. To assume and assert commercial control over projects allocated to deliver margins identified. To work as part of a team to build on reputation, capability and delivering efficiently to ensure the projects team maintains a strong project pipeline and develop new leads and clients.
Take profit and loss responsibility for those projects allocated to you. To own each project and delivery with a high degree of attention to design, construction and financial detail. Deliver projects without LADs being applied.
From resources available, draw together matrix managed teams to deliver owned projects. These may be from a combination of in-house and out-sourced resources.
To be accountable for the service delivery in accordance with business systems, such as quality assurance, environmental management system, financial systems, administration and policies.
Through a recognised process (usually identified by the client process e.g. RIBA plan of work) creates strategic, operational and tactical programmes to demonstrate how projects will be delivered. Set and manage management and client expectations through clear communications centred around programme/construction programme, budget (internal / external) and the quality of services delivered during live projects until completion and post completion assessment.
To Manage the development of detailed Work Method Statements, Risk and COSHH and CDM assessments for all work activity undertaken by in-house and contracted staff ensuring complete compliance. Always maintain high and statutory compliant health and safety standards on project sites.
To appoint, manage, monitor and co-ordinate consultants as required and the onsite activities of all sub-contractors with regard to programme and ensuring that appropriate planning consents, CDM requirements, Method Statements, Risk and COSHH Assessments and Permits to Work are in place prior to work commencing.
In accordance with contract forms, manage projects within the specified terms. Ensure risk is appropriately considered for sub-contract transfer or reviewed in conjunction with procurement / legal departments to agree risk share.
In conjunction with Purchasing Department colleagues prepare and issue documentation for schedules of rates, quotations, tenders and term contracts as appropriate. Carry out tender evaluations and check that returned documents conform to requirements.
Promote effective and efficient co-ordination and integration between the projects team(s) and other departments on the contract and wider managers. Promote effective and efficient co-ordination and integration. Ensure projects delivered do not compromise TFM/PFI KPIs or render space unavailable.
To develop business opportunities within and external to the contract where appropriate
To ensure that SLAs from subcontractors are met and exceed the requirements of the TFM contract and that sub-contracts are negotiated, reviewed and renewed actively and in line with the needs of each individual project.
Gather organise and provide information required for report purposes to meet all contractual obligations including KPI’s and maintain such records as are required by the contract. Work closely with supply chain on all appointment and monitoring activities.
To ensure that all contracting companies’ plant and equipment is maintained in a safe condition and is always ready for use.
To ensure staff and contractors maintain the highest standards of health and safety, professionalism and customer service always.
To maintain all project administrative activities on site including Quality Assurance procedures and all procedures associated with monitoring and recording contract performance as detailed within the contract.
To participate in out of hours management team as part of Contract business continuity plan.
Manage supply chain in accordance with company policy and procedure ensuring formal performance feedback is provided to the procurement team.
Support and look to integrate effectively with other contracts for mutual benefit. Some travel will be required as part of this role due to its nature.
Requirements
RICS, CIOB, CEng, Graduate or Higher Technician status in a construction technological field – likely to be building services, with at least 5 years of varied contracting and/or PM consultancy experience.
Excellent, strong team leader with experience of constructing and integrating teams ensuring they work efficiency and to deliver on own and project team and client deadlines with consistency. Excellent communications skills are essential.
Well-developed client facing and customer services skills and the ability to cope with demanding and varied customer requirements. Diplomatic yet forceful to drive projects forward achieving mutually compliant results. Strong and effective communicator.
Technically competent in a variety field of project management delivery environment (e.g. as principle / prime contractor, management fee or under traditional contracting or design and build arrangements). Able to successfully deliver projects from inception to completion – end to end with a hands-on approach.
Financially driven with ability to deliver or exceed agreed margin, understanding of business systems and adept in seeing their adherence and development. Project budgetary P&L experience and responsibility (combined on-going project values circa £5m).
Quality driven in terms of the project finished article, communication – written and oral and in terms of processes and procedure.
Security vetting, or the willingness to comply with the vetting requirements of the contracts (including detailed vetting if required)
Direct line/matrix management experience for multiple technical/professional/trade staff, experienced in dealing with re-engineering and accomplished in management of administrative performance issues such as sickness and absence
Previous client contact in negotiation, monitoring and presentation
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