Speller Metcalfe is on a mission… and it’s a simple one. We want to build a sustainable company at the forefront of construction – one that is built with a people-first approach in mind.

As a family business with nearly 30 years’ experience under our belts, our focus is not just getting you through the door, but developing your skills to support a long-term career with us. We’re proud of our high levels of staff retention and with staff at the very heart of our company, you’re never just a cog in the machine, but someone who can truly have an impact on how we do business.

Our background

Established in 1995 by Steve Speller and Andy Metcalfe, their vision was to develop a business at the cutting edge of construction, built upon an ethos of family values which are reflected in everything we do.

Now one of the UK’s leading regional contractors, we predominantly work across the Midlands and South West regions. With offices in Malvern and Wolverhampton, we deliver a range of public and private sector projects from £250k up to £30 million across a numbers of fields including education, healthcare, residential and leisure.

In these busy roles, you will:

• Develop suitable and sufficient construction programmes, paying particular attention to plans related to health and safety, environmental considerations, site waste management, and overall quality.
• Chair coordination meetings with subcontractors to ensure the smooth running of the project.
• Produce a procurement schedule and a Request for Information system (RFI), ensuring information is received in a timely way via regular upkeep of the RFI schedules.
• Manage the relationship with the design team.
• Ensure all pre-start planning conditions have been satisfied, contact established with Building Control, and Building Control Tracker in place and is managed.
• Develop suitable and sufficient construction programmes.
• Monitor and maintain control over all project programmes and schedules.
• Maintain sufficient allocation of appropriate resource to the project, in a timely manner.
• Ensure, in collaboration with the Contracts Manager, all project staff are given clear and relevant project specific roles and responsibilities and periodically review their performance.
• Manage the relationship with the client to the best effect while enhancing the commercial value of the business.
• Prepare for, attend and lead if required, project progress meetings with comprehensive progress reports.
• Manage adherence to specifications, drawings and appropriate industry standards; checking the validity of the records held on systems (Fieldwire) for future reference.
• Assess operational and commercial risks with the project team.

To be successful in these roles you will bring your enthusiasm and determination as well as:

Essential

• Demonstrated experience as a Project Manager for construction projects
• Based out of our Malvern office (with travel to sites which reach across the Midlands and South West)

Core behaviours which will help you to be successful in this role include:

• Taking responsibility and accountability
• Building and leveraging strong relationships
• Driving for results

As well as a competitive salary, increasing holiday benefits and access to private healthcare, we offer a number of other benefits for our staff.

Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our values, we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. Our mission has always been to encourage, develop and combine the individual talents of our staff, and we welcome and encourage staff from all backgrounds and abilities.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

If you’re interested in the role, please email your CV to careers@spellermetcalfe.com

If you don’t meet all the criteria, but are still interested in joining us, email us your CV anyway! It’s always good to hear from people who can bring their enthusiasm and desire to learn to our team.