Development Project Manager

Role overview

• ID: 2024-6511
• Entity: Vistry Services
• Region: Vistry Services
• Department: Pre-construction
• Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time
• Job Location: Brentwood, Essex
• Date Posted: 06.11.2024

We have a new opportunity for a Development Project Manager to join our team within Vistry Services – Special Projects, at our Brentwood office. As our Development Project Manager you will be responsible for managing the programme of works, delivery and budget across a number of live projects. This can include external cladding, remediation along with the deliver of new build residential and high-rise schemes.

• Let’s cut to the chase, what’s in it for you...
  • Competitive basic salary and annual bonus
  • Company car, car allowance or travel allowance
  • Agile working possible (dependent on role)
  • Up to 33 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Private Healthcare
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
  • Competitive contributory pension scheme
  • Life assurance – 4 x your annual salary
  • Share incentive schemes
  • Employee rewards portal with many more benefits...
• In return, what we would like from you...
  • Behave in line with our company values – Integrity, Caring and Quality
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Able to build and maintain relationships with both internal and external partners
  • Strong IT skills and experience of using computers, preferably Excel, Power Projects & Word.
  • Ability to prioritise and organise our work
  • Knowledge and understanding of residential or contracting developments
  • Professional qualification from recognised institution or experience in an appropriate role
  • Evidence of an understanding of financial, legal, and planning processes.
  • An ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management with respect to Client,
  • Professional Practices and site operators, both internal and external to the Company.
  • An understanding of the construction process.
  • Experience in a similar role.
• More about the Development Project Manager role...
  • Liaise with all internal and external parties to collate information on legacy projects where liability may exist.
  • Review documentation to determine risk
  • Prepare and maintain Management Risk/Triage Schedules and Reports - communicating regularly on assessments of liability.
  • Monitor and maintain budgets.
  • Investigate/interrogate projects where liability suspected to determine facts
  • Liaise with Company legal advisors/external solicitors regarding all legal/lease/freehold status
  • Review documentation to determine if liability is shared with other Developer entities or off-set by other party’s actions (such as designers; specifiers; sub-contractors; main contractors; suppliers; certifiers; warrantors) and ensure notifications are issued at the earliest and pursued vigorously thereafter
  • Maintain and develop relationships with external parties (including Fire Safety Engineers; Architects; Project Managers; Cost Advisors; Contractors; Solicitors; Professional bodies etc) to ensure receipt of best advice at all times and availability of Consultant/Contractors able to deliver our business requirements at all times; effectively and efficiently
  • Prepare project plan (including anticipated programme and detailed cost assessment) for individual sites setting out the strategy for remediation as advised from the fire risk assessments.
  • Where/when appropriate, Tender and Appoint External Project Managers/Cost Consultants to manage and deliver remediation solutions and proceed following an agreed action plan.
  • Develop full Employers Requirements or Design solutions to enable fully competitive tendering of the works package(s) to pre-approved/recommended Contractors. Negotiate to secure most cost-effective solution and appoint suitable contractor(s) using pre-approved and standard Contract terms and conditions. Contract T&C’s are to be based on minimising risk to Vistry at all times.

Finally, let’s tell you a bit more about us...

We’re Vistry Group, the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. Our core values of integrity, caring, and quality shape all we do; our partnership-led approach helps us build sustainable communities where they’re needed most.

You’re probably familiar with our unmatched portfolio of brands: Linden Homes, Bovis Homes, and Countryside Homes. We also have Vistry Works, our timber frame manufacturing operation, and Vistry Services, our support functions. Together, we build more than homes, so there’s nowhere better to build your career. We’re proud that our culture sees everyone treated fairly and respectfully, with diversity and inclusion a top priority and reasonable adjustments provided during the application process. Join us in making Vistry.

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Benefits

Agile Working

Offers a flexible way of working.

Annual Leave

Enjoy 28 days’ holiday plus all UK Bank Holidays. There are options to carry leave forwards and buy up to 5 days.

Pension with Legal & General

Eligible employees are auto-enrolled. You contribute 4%, we contribute 6%. Salary Sacrifice and options to increase contributions available.

Volunteer Days

With 2 paid volunteer days a year, you can give back to communities and charities.

Why Vistry

Joining Vistry is just the start of building your perfect career. In return for your passion and skills, we invest in your future, providing all the support and training you need to thrive in your career and realise your potential. Our work is rewarding in itself, but we also offer a range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits, plus plenty of recognition incentives. We value you and everything you help us build as we make Vistry together.