Construction Manager at Cape Projects Construction

About the job

• Dynamic, dead line driven experienced Construction Manager required to manage the fast-paced construction of residential units in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town.

Duties:

• Fully responsible for the daily management of the site.
• Fully responsible for ensuring the required safety standards are met and maintained.
• Ensuring that the quality system is stringently followed.
• Ensuring daily productivity of the site.
• Produce short term programs weekly and communicate such to subordinates and subcontractors.
• Identifying and achieving mid term construction milestones.
• Coordination of numerous trades within the correct, agreed sequence.
• Chairing weekly subcontract meetings.
• Produce and present fortnightly progress reports.
• Ensuring minimal waste on construction materials.
• Ensuring timeous ordering and delivery of material to prevent any delays.

Skills:

• Oversee multiple construction projects from start to completion.
• Coordinate building processes and trades to ensure standards are met and maintained.
• Monitor and measure performance against program.
• Budget and cost measuring strategies.
• High organisation and project planning ability
• Good understanding of the JBCC suite of contracts
• Determining and assessing the need for additional staff.
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans.
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Monitoring project expenses against planned and budgeted expenditures
• Manage stock and materials processes on site.

Must Haves:

• 8-10 years’ experience in a Site manager/ Site Agent role
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in construction of multi storey apartment buildings
• Proactive and can solve problems on site
• Have advanced knowledge of NBR and NHBRC guidelines
• Site establishment
• Setting out Brickwork
• Set Datum (levels)
• Site Admin – Progress Report (on project)
• Manage surveyor and related requirements
• Planning & programming
• Conduct planning meeting before a development commences
• Assist with compiling feasibility studies and budgets with Quality Surveyor
• Project Planning, Programming and updating of programs
• Resolving any unexpected technical difficulties, and other problems that arise
• Planning the work and efficiently organizing the plant and site facilities in order to meet agreed deadlines;
• Setting goals & targets and ensuring that they are achieved
• Interact with Council on any planning requirements
• Progress & design meetings
• Checking of plans, drawings and quantities for accuracy of calculations
• Ensuring all materials used and work performed are as per specifications
• Managing, monitoring and interpreting the contract design documents supplied by the client
• Full understanding and implementation of Architects and Engineers plans program reports and measurements
• Coordinate construction processes
• Liaising with consultants, sub-contractors, supervisors, planners, quantity surveyors and the general workforce involved in the project
• Liaising with the local authority to ensure compliance with local construction regulations and by-laws
• Liaising with client and their representatives, engineers and surveyors, including attending regular meetings to keep them informed of progress
• Measurements & Costing
• Cost reporting and Requisitions
• Monitoring project expenses against planned and budgeted expenditures
• Overseeing the selection and requisition of materials and plant
• Making cost-effective solutions and proposals for the intended project
• Manage and monitor health and safety compliance
• Records and registers management
• Meeting updates and records
• Ordering & procurement
• Stock control on site
• Sourcing Quotes and suppliers for specialized installations
• Assist with compiling feasibility studies and budgets with Quality Surveyor
• Variation orders costs and analysis
• making cost-effective solutions and proposals for the intended project;
• Staff management
• Managing Sub Contractors
• Administration process on site, what do you do?
• Organising and managing staff and projects
• Working with and managing subcontractors
• Managing of site workers
• Putting systems in place to ensure quality of work delivered
• Job specific Labour allocation

Ensure subcontractors and site staff operate in compliance with local construction and safety regulations;

• SOFTWARE
• MS Office
• MS Projects
• CCS Candy