Project Support Manager (Office Manager)

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Tamworth
Salary
Competitive
Posted
23 Jun 2021
Closes
21 Jul 2021
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
J. Murphy & Sons Limited is a leading global, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that improves lives by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, we provide better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; water; power; natural resources; and construction & property.Headquartered in London, we also have a number of related businesses - Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Urban Infrastructure; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. We are specialists in delivering pipelines; design; marine; structural steel; tunnelling; fabrication; bridges and piling; and invest heavily in our substantial holding of plant; equipment and facilities.
Project Support Manager (Office Manager)
Based Tamworth

The Project Support Manager has responsibility for the operational delivery of key finance process and administrative activities (processing, reporting, cost control and compliance) that support Project Managers on Murphy projects. This role will focus primarily on a large projects in the Tamworth region

The PS Manager will:
* Be responsible for maintaining key senior site-based relationship, in particular with the Project and Site Manager
* Be responsible for ensuring Murphy project managers are supported in a consistent, standard way across all projects
* The onboarding of new Project Support Co-Ordinators to ensure that standard practices are carried out for all Murphy projects
* Making the appropriate interventions (e.g. highlighting lack of process compliance) upon collecting/reviewing metrics to support SLA reporting and team performance monitoring
* Foster a culture of Continuous Improvement and of sharing best practice amongst the team
* Developing the team members within the team structure and supporting SSC wide talent management activity in line with the SSC People Plan
* Proposing the right mix of employees and contractors for the team, and proposing the sizing the team to meet business demands

Your Experience:
* Experience working in a construction industry, with an understanding of the mechanics of the supply chain
* Experienced in the mechanics of cost control and project-based activity
* Managing staff in a process organised team, ideally Purchase to Pay process or broad business administration
* Experienced relationship manager
* Understanding of basic financial accounting practices, related to site and construction
* Well-developed people skills
* Construction Industry Site experience