Job Description

calfordseaden is a leading multi-disciplinary construction and property consultancy. We provide a comprehensive range of services across the built environment, including Architecture, Building Information Management (BIM), Building Safety, Engineering, Fire Safety, Health and Safety, Surveying, Sustainability, and more.

Employer’s Agent / Project Manager

Location: Birmingham/Hybrid

Hours: 35

The role and responsibilities:

You’ll provide support to the existing small team of Employer’s Agent’s / Project Manager’s in project delivery. The projects are sited throughout the West and East Midlands and surrounding counties. The successful candidate will provide pre and post contract administration services to clients, working on JCT Design and Build Contracts as well as Bespoke Development Agreements. The role would suit a Built Environment professional from a QS / PM / BS background.

What you will be doing:

• Managing construction projects both pre and post Contract.
• Procurement and tendering.
• Acting as Employer’s Agent, Client Representative or Contract Administrator for the delivery of the projects.
• Independent management of projects from initial brief to completion whilst maintaining high standards for quality and accuracy. This might include projects of a more complex nature.
• Procuring necessary consultancy services to develop a project to planning submission/tender.
• Preparation of robust and accurate tender and contract packages, tender reviews/comparisons and tender report production and value for money statements.
• Assess the value of works undertaken on site at each valuation interval and review against the project cash flow forecast, including production of final account documents/reports.
• The ability to review Contractor/Developer and designer proposals and ensure that the employer’s requirements are fulfilled.
• Preparing Contract engrossments.
• Carrying out regular site inspections, including undertaking snagging inspections, end of defects period inspections and handovers.
• Preparation of employers requirements, client specifications and contract documents. Assist senior colleagues with complex projects.
• Preparing risk registers, dashboard reports and monthly financial reports.
• Chairing meetings, taking minutes and following up action plans.
• Report writing generally.
• Undertaking all day to day administrative duties on the delivery of developments under the terms of JCT D&B (or similar) Contracts or bespoke Development Agreements.
• Understand, identify and manage risk, both project related as part of our service and own risks as a consultant and seek guidance from senior colleagues.
• Complete design checks, prepare and update tracker documents to record progress in relation to various contractual matters such as section agreements, planning, pre-handover information etc.

Qualifications

• An RICS accredited construction related level 6 qualification
• MRICS, or willingness to sit the APC
• Driving licence with full UK entitlement and access to a vehicle, with the business cover included in your insurance policy.

Knowledge

• Experience in UK residential development
• A knowledge of the JCT D&B 2016 and 2024 contract
• An understanding of development control and funding/delivery standards within the housing sector
• Basic construction and property Law
• Construction risk
• Construction costs/economics
• Pre-contract matters and how to take projects through its life cycle
• Working knowledge of the most widely used forms of building contracts.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar position

Skills

• Able to produce written reports in good English.
• Strong numerical skills.
• Proficient in the use of standard IT software including MS Word and Excel, and able to learn and use bespoke software.
• Provide appropriate levels of feedback to others e.g. to line manager.
• Good communicator and people skills.
• Personable and confident.
• Able to work on own initiative but accept and seek guidance when required.

What we offer

People are at the heart of everything we do, which is why we invest in them at every stage of their career. We are proud to hold the Investors in People Gold award, which we believe demonstrates our commitment to nurturing our people. Structured Apprenticeships and work experience opportunities are available across the organisation to support those at the beginning of their careers. We also have career development pathways to help you understand and structure your professional development.

We provide a range of benefits including hybrid working, the option to buy and sell annual leave, enhanced annual leave for long service, sponsorship for qualifications, a recruitment referral bonus scheme, enhanced family leave policies, an employee assistance programme, and more!

Who we are

We’re a multi-disciplinary property and construction consultancy with offices in Orpington, London, Birmingham, Essex, Cambridge, and Hampshire. With 80 years of experience of delivering award-winning projects across all major sectors, we’re committed to making a positive difference in the communities we serve.

Our vision is to be identified as a trusted client advisor; national in reach, local in service, and selected for our quality and expertise in the built environment. Our brilliant team consists of individuals who are passionate about delivering the best results and continuously demonstrate why our clients choose us to help bring their projects to life. You can find out more about our work on our website www.calfordseaden.com

Our values are integral in everything we do. They shape the way we work with clients and each other. Our values are:

• Collaboration - Being one team and supporting each other to achieve the best results and maximise our potential.
• Authenticity - Being true to ourselves and others and celebrating our differences.
• Giving Back - Recognizing and embracing the need for our work to have a positive social impact.
• Excellence - Striving to be up with the best and at the forefront of what we do.
• Support - Providing investment, encouragement and support to bring out the best in our People.
• Integrity - Being honest and doing the right thing

If you are a talented individual, with a commercial mind, and align to our values, please apply. If this job isn’t quite right for you but you would like to start or progress a career within our construction consultancy, please connect with us so you can be notified about relevant future vacancies.

calfordseaden is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to supporting the principles of equality of opportunity in employment, training, and service delivery.