Project Manager - Earthworks

Here at the Mick George Group we are currently recruiting a Project Manager to join the Earthworks division.

• NEST Pension operated via salary sacrifice
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Multi-Discount platform
• Continuous training and development.
• Excellent opportunities to progress your career across different areas of the Company.
• Company issued PPE
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gym discount
• Recognition scheme
• Long-service rewards
• Company Vehicle

What started as one man, one tipper truck, and a dream has grown into a successful business over nearly 40 years. Today, the company operates more than 600 HGV vehicles across 40+ sites and employs over 1,000 people, making it one of the leading suppliers to the construction industry across East Anglia and the East Midlands.

The company is committed to providing the highest standards of service and support to everyone it works with, including employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.

This is a senior site-based position owning earthworks projects end to end. You would carry the programme, the commercial position and the client relationship from mobilisation through to final account, leading the delivery teams beneath you and answering for how the project performs. You would be based from the site office on your project, close to the works and to your delivery teams.

• →Taking full lifecycle ownership of allocated earthworks projects from mobilisation to final account
• →Administering NEC4 and JCT contracts — early warnings, compensation events, extensions of time, variations, valuations and remeasures
• →Owning commercial performance including CVRs, cost forecasting, end-of-life value and margin protection, working alongside our Commercial Manager and quantity surveyors
• →Managing the client relationship and leading progress, commercial and technical meetings
• →Leading Works Managers, Site Managers and site teams, setting clear expectations and managing performance
• →Owning programme performance, forecasting realistically and acting early when delivery is at risk
• →Leading health, safety and environmental performance, including investigations and close-out of corrective actions
• →Managing plant, labour, materials and subcontract resource across your projects
• →Identifying and mitigating operational, commercial, programme and safety risk
• →Reporting accurately on cost, value, programme and safety performance to senior leadership

• Minimum five years in project management within earthworks or civil engineering
• SMSTS
• CSCS Black Card, supported by NVQ Level 6 in Construction Management or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience administering NEC4 and JCT contracts
• Sound knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation, and of CDM 2015 duties
• Full UK driving licence

• Experience of soil stabilisation using lime and cement binders
• Experience delivering as a subcontractor to tier one contractors
• Formal NEC4 training or accreditation
• Familiarity with plant fleet management and utilisation

The Mick George Group is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all. The company seeks to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse community at large and values the individual’s contribution irrespective of sex, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, race, colour, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin.