Your new company

This client is a well-known public organisation within Healthcare with bases throughout the country. This particular role will place you in an office just outside of Cork City Centre.

Your new role

Duties Include:

• Managing the preparation of a comprehensive brief for the projects in consultation with organisational service personnel and advisors.
• Ensuring that the project brief is known and understood, in appropriate detail, by all those who are likely to work in the new facility.
• Managing the necessary and appropriate consultation processes, meetings and other activities necessary to satisfactory completion of the project.
• Complying with all regulatory requirements including permission, licences, certificates and approvals.
• Acting as senior administrative officer for the management of the project and helping to resolve quickly such issues as may be for resolution and agreement.
• Defining requirements for design services, buildings and equipment.
• Advising on the selection of Design Teams, other professional services and Contractors for Projects, arranging and managing the procurement processes.
• Arranging for preparation of specifications, drawing and contract documents for projects.
• Obtaining approval to proposals as necessary in accordance with organisation protocols and regulations in a timely manner.
• Developing proposals with selected design teams and contractors.
• Developing action plans for the timely and efficient completion of contracts.
• Co-ordinating the tender and control stages of the project, having close liaison with the design team, site supervisory staff, etc. on the one hand and hospital personnel on the other.
• Supervising staff and contractors in the implementation of agreed programmes.
• Working with service management and ancillary services to ensure that the equipping/commissioning team is established in good time, is adequately briefed and trained, and is effectively supported in carrying out its work.
• Ensuring that the equipping/commissioning team is established in good time, is adequately briefed and trained, and is effectively supported in carrying out its work.
• Managing and controlling agreed project timescales and budgets for planning, design, construction and equipping and budgets to agreed quality standards.
• Anticipating difficulties and problems, especially those arising from phasing, variations, commissioning and vacating, and ensuring that where necessary these are either resolved directly or brought to the notice of the Engineering Manager and Engineering Director , for decisions on avoidable claims for delays, extras etc.
• Managing and controlling expenditure on each assigned project.
• This is to include presentations to senior management and Project Board as required, of information and current estimates of total costs, running statements of financial commitment and forecasts of expenditure.
• Checking design team fees accounts regarding agreed fees and preparing same for certification by the Engineering Manager.
• He/she shall process payments to contractors and design team firms for payment in accordance with constraints set down in contract documents, forms of agreement and statutory provisions.
• Advising line management on measures appropriate to enable the orderly phasing out of services in old facilities and the transfer to new facilities of staff and services.
• Assisting in the orderly phasing of developments by agreeing appropriate arrangements with line management and to keep line management and senior clinical staff informed of the plans as the developments proceed.
• Ensuring appropriate maintenance arrangements are put in place for new buildings.

What you'll need to succeed

(i) Hold a Level 8 (or higher) Quality & Qualifications Ireland (QQI) major academic award in Architecture, Engineering or Surveying accredited by the relevant Professional Institute (Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Engineers Ireland, Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland).

Or

(ii) Have Full Membership of the relevant professional association:
Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland.
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Engineers Ireland.
Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland.

Or

(iii) Hold a qualification at least equivalent to one of the above listed in (i) or (ii).

And

(iv) Have had at least seven years satisfactory & relevant experience in planning, design, project management or construction of buildings or in the installation or maintenance of the mechanical, electrical, and heating services of such buildings to include ICT Wiring and containment.

And

(b) Candidates must possess the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and of administrative capacity) for the proper discharge of the duties of the position.

What you'll get in return

Excellent salary and package on offer, with opportunity to work on large public works projects.

What you need to do now

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