Construction Project Manager

At Cumming Group, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the world’s most exciting construction projects across a variety of sectors, in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. Cumming Group Norway is looking for a Project Manager with cost experience. This role will involve being the single point of contract between the project team and will be client facing. The role will be to manage (either alone or as part of a wider team) the total project, from award to project completion. You will be responsible for delivering the strategy and drive for the project, ensuring that all aspects of the deliverables are met. You will partner with a diverse set of clients and internal teams to deliver exceptional value, acting as a trusted advisor and helping to ensure successful project outcomes

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide support for day-to-day delivery responsibility for small to medium projects, support larger projects/programmes of work and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.
• Support knowledge capture, sharing and innovation. Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.
• Support risk and value management.
• Chair critical meetings, recording and administering this process.
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
• Support the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard.
• Undertake service delivery is in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.
• Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable.
• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
• Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.
• Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements.
• Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.
• Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports
• Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation.
• Support evaluation of tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Deliver results in a client facing role including:
• Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
• Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
• Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
• Support stakeholder management.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
• Dealing with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment.
• Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.
• Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
• Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.
• Excellent communication skills (written and spoken) in English and Norwegian or Swedish.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
• Developed understanding of leadership techniques and ideally some formal leadership training.
• 5+ years’ experience.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
• Experience of industry standard forms of contract,
• Good core technical skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Good IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Developing interpersonal skills with both client and staff.