Project Manager (Asset)

What we need you to do

• Work with the Asset Manager to set key performance targets and milestones for allocated projects and monitor agreed deliverables to achieve expected outputs
• Manage projects and if required day-to-day work to minimise exposure of both financial and health and safety related risks
• Have a thirst for value for money, ensuring that both large and small-scale work is delivered against approved budgets, or better still, under budget
• Make sure that all work is delivered equitably and fairly and maximises and protects the capital value of assets.

What you will be responsible for

• Giving technical advice and support to colleagues, staff and other stakeholders
• Managing specific projects allocated by either mobile technology or manual allocation
• Managing the progress of work by either contractors or in-house maintenance staff and making sure we comply with all relevant documentation, standards and good practice guidance
• Manage and keep updated all the individual projects on Red Kite's asset management software
• Reconciling and settling final accounts and valuations, agreeing and paying interim valuations for major works, dealing with contractual disputes, extensions of time and variations and issuing relevant certification.

As person, you will:

• Be skilled at building effective and productive working relationships with staff, managers, partners and tenants
• Be excellent at verbal and written communication
• Be qualified to HNC/HND or equivalent level, be working towards or willing to work towards a formal project management qualification, or have proven relevant experience
• Have experience of construction management, procurement and a good understanding of construction law relating to larger social housing planned repair works.

If you are interested in the Project Manager post, please take a look through the job description and if you're as excited about these fantastic opportunities as we are, please get in touch and send an application form to recruitment@redkitehousing.org.uk.

35-hour week pilot

Since June 2024 we have been piloting a change to our normal full-time, 37-hour 5-day week. Over 12 months we are trialling a shorter 35-hour week (for the same pay as before) where staff work a full day Monday to Thursday and finish the working week at 1pm every Friday. It’s just a pilot at this stage while we evaluate its impact on our staff, our tenants, and the service we provide, but if successful we will consider a permanent move to this way of working in 2025.