Senior Project Manager (Banking) - Malaysia
Cushman & Wakefield · Kuala Lumpur
Job Title
Senior Project Manager (Banking) - MalaysiaJob Description Summary
Position SummaryThe Senior Project Manager will be a leader in the Malaysia CRES Team while maintaining overall responsibility for the successful delivery of projects across the Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia portfolio. This role serves as the primary interface between SC business stakeholders, Corporate Real Estate Services (CRES), workplace leadership teams, and external consultants and contractors.
The position is responsible for driving project governance, capital planning support, workplace and branch transformation initiatives, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and in accordance with SC standards. The role will also focus on building and maintaining trusted relationships with key stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor and ensuring alignment between business objectives and real estate project outcomes.
The Senior Project Manager will provide leadership, coaching, and development to the local Project Management team while promoting a culture of accountability, collaboration, client service excellence, and continuous improvement.
Job Description
About the role:
- Suitable candidates will be interested in and preferably experienced in delivering projects and work packages throughout all phases of a project lifecycle. Candidate will need to demonstrate a clear understanding of the project lifecycle.
- Suitable candidates can have backgrounds and experience in construction, design engineering, process engineering, project management, facilities management in projects varying in size, type and scale.
- Roles will involve the monitoring and management of day-to-day operations of the project or program, including developing short and long-range targets, daily activities, safety, quality, financial controls and reporting and coordination of all stakeholders and subcontractors.
- Candidate will need to plan the work schedules and efficiently organize the project activities in order to meet an agreed program of deadlines.
- Liaise with consultants and sub-contractors engaged on the project and provide weekly reports on all safety, quality, time and cost issues associated with the works. Candidate will be responsible for all administration responsibilities on the project depending on size and complexity.
- Will attend regular meetings with clients, consultants and contractors and ensure meeting minutes are recorded and issued in timely fashion i.e within 48 hours of meeting.
- Resolve technical difficulties and other issues that may arise. Candidate will need to be able to communicate to C&W senior management concisely and confidently and ensure solutions and contingencies are provided for each technical problem faced on projects.
- Manage contractors to oversee the day to day delivery of projects within different delivery models and provide daily/weekly reporting.
- Responsible for the EHS implementation and performance of the project. Ensure the EHS provisions and requirements are adhered to by all clients, consultants and contractors
- Review EHS procedures and requirements, other EHS issues and recommendations for improvement on EHS issues. Provide feedback EHS matters or information to senior management for each project site
- Ensure that all statutory requirements of the Regulations, Codes of Practice and company’s safety rules & regulations are complied with at all times
About you:
- Degree / Diploma in Civil Engineering / Mechanical & Electrical Engineering / Architecture / Facilities & Engineering / Quantity Surveying / Structural Engineering.
- 5 years in building construction/ engineering/ interior fitting outworks.
- Suitable candidates can have backgrounds and experience in construction, design engineering, process engineering, project management, facilities management in projects varying in size, type and scale.
- Suitable candidates will be interested in and preferably experienced in delivering projects and work packages throughout all phases of a project lifecycle. Candidate will need to demonstrate a clear understanding of the project lifecycle
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;
- Being part of a growing global company;
- Career development and a promote from within culture;
- An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion
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We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
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