Project Manager at The Place

Job Summary
Manage and coordinate activities across multiple project teams and ensure proper monitoring, evaluation and program execution. To ensure key projects (new outlets rollout, renovation projects etc.) are led and managed to excellence within budget and alignment to Company requirement and quality standard.

Other Responsibilities

• Coordinate all projects under the purview of the project department
• Train staff/ build capacity, delegate more tasks/projects to project officers
• Supervise the delivery of projects in line with specification in drawing
• Ensures implementation of projects using agreed methodology, guidelines and regulatory standards
• Ensure project officers prepare project schedule with key milestones that will be used to measure the progress of the project
• Ensure project officer integrates changes to the project that arise during project execution
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders, user department and architects to enable successful delivery of projects
• Take lead role in all implementation related activity/task
• Identify and select best vendors/contractors for projects
• Update the building material list periodically based on project experience or research
• Conduct research to identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives for the team
• Resolve issues and proffer solutions to problems encountered while executing a project or task
• Ensure project officers upload project documents on server to enable knowledge sharing
• Ensure sharing of lessons learnt among team/department to effectively help improve work quality of future projects
• Ensure the preparation and submission of weekly status reports of team members
• Continuously identify and implement ways to improve team’s performance and timely delivery of task
• Appraisals/performance review is done for each team member at the end of each major project
• Give timely, specific feedback to staff on performance, suggesting or helping will self-development plans
• Lead implementation meetings

Qualifications
Requirements

• First degree in Construction, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Building Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Architecture and other related discipline
• Minimum of 10 years of direct project management experience in the Construction Industry – experience in renovation, redevelopment projects and interior decoration is a plus
• Experience in dealing with a large and diverse number of simultaneous challenges, requiring knowledge of many different disciplines
• Project Management experience
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Must have the ability to communicate technical material to a non-technical audience