Location: Liverpool

Ridge are a built environment consultancy, helping our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.  As the demand for our expertise continues to grow, we now have an opportunity for a Project Manager to join our dynamic and collaborative Project Management Team in Liverpool. 

The Project Management discipline within Ridge works across a wide variety of sectors with world leading blue chip clients, world beating sporting teams, automotive OEM’s, ground-breaking R&D organisations, and some of the best academic research institutes.  To operate in such an environment, we are seeking the best candidates who want to further themselves and develop a career within our business. 

We are enabled by great people who are inspired and proud of what they do and respected for who they are.  At Ridge our people are the foundation of our success, and our greatest asset. Our people are what separate us, they drive our vision and embody our values. We offer not just a job, but a journey. We believe in commitment, and the value of a stable, flexible, long-term career path. We challenge our people to be the best they can be and help them grow with the right development.

• Establish detailed client’s brief and responsibilities of consultants and specialists
• Establish lines of communication and reporting procedures with the client and within the design team, providing a single point of contact for all aspects of the project
• Arrange feasibility studies, including site surveys, site investigation, site evaluation etc.
• Manage finances from inception to completion, including cash flow forecasts, monitoring project expenditure, and recommendations of payments by client, as well as internal budget and resourcing
• Undertake contact administration, JCT, NEC
• Development of project documentation, programmes, master budget, risk register etc.
• Maintain a robust document management system
• Produce reports to suit relevant stages of the projects
• Monitor and report on the contractors' progress against the contract programme
• Management of consultant teams to ensure that the contractor’s design is executed in compliance with the contract and specification
• Liaise with the client on deviations from specification, budget etc.
• Conduct pre-start and handover meetings
• Ensure that all CDM regulations have been followed throughout the project delivery
• Manage logistics and resource allocation to ensure delivery of project
• Chair progress, co-ordination and project meetings throughout the contract period
• Prepare regular reports to clients on all aspects of the project inspection, scheduling and acceptance of works required under the defects liability and maintenance provisions of the contract

• Project management experience ideally gained within a construction consultancy
• Working towards or keen to embark upon professional chartership RICS, CIOB, RIBA, MICE
• High quality oral and written communications (reports, instructions etc)
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project
• Successfully led and delivered complex and challenging projects
• Client management
• Experience of preparing winning tender submissions

We are looking for a team player, who is outgoing, proactive, and personable. You need to be articulate in dealing with complicated issues between our clients and our highly skilled project teams. You will also need to show ambition and a willingness to work flexibly, both in the office and on-site, whilst demonstrating commercial awareness and exhibiting the ability to lead teams to complete the projects to agreed timelines. 

What's in it for you?

Our people are our business – our vision is to be ever progressive, expanding our expertise and nurturing our talent through Quality, Innovation & Growth, to achieve our strategic outcomes:

• Growth which fuels ideas and opportunity for all
• Purposeful and meaningful work
• Continual development and mentoring
• Empowerment, inclusivity and respect
• Happiness and enjoyment
• Openness, honesty and integrity
• Acting as one team

Your reward is focused on your total wellbeing, with a package to support all aspects of life. In addition to your salary, you can expect:

• A healthy holiday balance of 25 days, plus bank holidays & the ability to buy / sell to suit you
• 3 days a year to give your time to others, volunteering for great causes
• An inclusive wellbeing offer:
  • Financial – Life Assurance, Pension Scheme (3% Employee, 6% Employer), Income Protection, Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme, flexible choice of Critical Illness Insurance
  • Physical – Free Private Medical Insurance, Doctor at Hand Private GP, Best Doctors, flexible choice of Dental Plan, Cycle to Work Scheme, GymFlex & Healthcare Cash Plan
  • Mental – Mental Health First Aiders, Help@Hand by Unum
• Car allowance 
• A flexible approach to hybrid working, to suit both you & your team
• Tailored career development – focused on professional, personal and/or educational

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application & selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.