Pre-Construction Manager

Job Title Pre-Construction Manager
Our Ref 13310
Client Ref 68783

Employment Type Permanent

Location: Manchester


Tell us about a time you worked with limited or unclear information early in a project how did you create clarity and value for the client?

How do you build credibility and trust when working with client or internal stakeholders who are more senior or technically experienced than you?

What does good ECI look like to you, and how would you demonstrate its value to a client who is focused mainly on cost and programme?

Do you have a strong track record in early?stage project development and pre?construction coordination?

Can you bring together technical, commercial and stakeholder inputs to prepare a project for successful construction delivery?

Role Purpose

The Pre-Construction Manager (ECI / Early Contractor Involvement) role is responsible for supporting business development activities through early engagement with prospective clients. The position focuses on promoting and presenting the organisation s Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) approach, demonstrating its benefits, and contributing to the development of ECI proposals, scopes, and cost estimates.
Key Responsibilities

• ECI Lead manage, coordinate, work with commercial teams
• Lead ECI phase work with key clients coordinate, control and organise people, activities and information
• Proactively engage with client personnel (e.g. project manager), work with them to deliver our services and provide support to their work
• Manage personnel from within ECI team and wider organisation to provide the agreed ECI services and create professional and value adding deliverables and inputs
• Review deliverables and activities by team to ensure suitable quality, meet the agreed requirements and look appropriate / well-structured and presented; Highlight value creation by
• Support and manage development of estimates and time schedules
• Monitor expenditure vs budget and control discussion with internal personnel and client as appropriate to ensure services delivered within budget

Key Skills

• Excellent people skills & communication
• Engage, discuss, listen to others and understand their real needs
• Ability to build networks
• Create and build trust
• Able to draw experience and knowledge out of others
• Manage, coordination and motivate a range of people, including those often more senior and experienced

Approach to Work

• Flexible and agile able to work on several parallel projects and switch between them
• Focused on creating solutions and dealing with situations where information is limited/vague/changeable
• Able to maintain overview of all activities on project, while also working on some of the detailed areas
• Transparent, honest and able to build trust internally and externally

You will have the following qualifications and experience

• Experience of project execution, particularly on site
• Construction background preferred
• Strong written and presentation experience along with Numerical and excel skills
• Strong knowledge of design coordination, programme development and pre-construction processes.
• Experience guiding multidisciplinary teams and managing external consultancy support.

This role may well suit a person with a broad initial experience of projects, with a willingness to engage and be proactive to gain experience in project management and project execution.

Millbank Holdings Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background, and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, and we are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process for everyone. If you require any adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we ll do our best to accommodate.

Millbank operates as both an Employment Agency and an Employment Business.

Millbank Holdings Ltd is an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background, and encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply.

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, and we are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process for everyone. If you require any adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we ll do our best to accommodate.

Millbank operates as both an Employment Agency and an Employment Business.