KBS Maritime delivers Asset Management, Facilities Management and Energy Solutions across the maritime and defence environments. With parent companies KBR and BAE Systems, the JV has the pedigree of two global organisations, but we have the ethos of a small business where our people are valued and empowered to succeed. It’s a great place to work and we bring opportunity to all our team.
Role
To deliver the Systems Project programme in line with the agreed standards by taking responsibility for all day to day ‘ issues within their defined section of work, as part of the Project execution delivery at Portsmouth Naval Base, PNB. For this specific role, have experience of working on HVAC projects, as well as prior experience in the installation of HVAC systems would be beneficial.
Purpose
Reporting to the KBS Systems Programme Manager.
To ensure the safe, to programme and to budget delivery of projects from Scope to completion and handover. The projects will be either trade packages or main contractor delivered works as required by the Project Execution team at PNB, and of varying complexity and value.
Key responsibilities / tasks will include:
- Overall responsibility for the delivery of Projects
- Accept scope of works from Programme manager
- Developing programmes for the projects
- Reporting on cost against Budget
- Act as POC for the relevant project and Interacts with the Client, users and the KBS team
- Cooridinate and agree workplans with other PNB stakeholders impacted by the projects.
- Oversight of the design deliverable programme with the Design managers to produce required design information to enable the procurement of packages of work.
- Lead the Cost Plan team to analyse and agree methods of project delivery, procurement routes and tender evaluation to present best value of money and constructability.
- Work with Procurement to tender the works and evaluate returns
- For Major Projects, work with the QS to raise the required Task Approval Form, TAF for KBS and MOD commercial acceptance of the project.
- Raise Procurement requisitions, and management of contractor accounts with the QS(for Major Projects).
- Working alongside Procurement to manage the contractural arrangements though NEC 4(if applicable)
- Ensure all the relevant preconstruction information that is needed to enable the effective commencement of works is available to the KBS site manager.
- Regular site visits to ensure that work carried out is delivered safely and is in line with both the agreed method statements and KBS Zero Harm policies.
- Ensure that progress against programme is regularly planned and reviewed, and all potential and/or actual risks as identified by the site management are quickly resolved or bought to the Prog Managers attention.
- Providing pratical completion including working with the Commissioning manager(if applicable) to provide a compliant project.
- Provide liaison with the O&M team and provision of all relevant handover information and documentation,
- Closure of project with Client and run lessons learnt review.
- Maintain communication and good working relationships with all disciplines which supports KBS Purpose Vision and Values.
Reporting duties including:
Monitor and report progress to the Programme Manager at regular intervals.
- Report on milestones on a weekly and monthly basis to meet the contract PIs and KPIs
- Review contractor progress meetings .
- Provide forecasted end dates and recommend recovery plans as needed.
- Prepare and issue updates/reports and ad-hoc studies, analysis, and reports. In conjunction with the design manager
- Manage personally controlled project documentation in an orderly manner
- Assimilate information and summarizing it in a manner that can be used to communicate the work scope to others
Advise and liaise with project client, stakeholder and end user and the Safe to Operate team as necessary