Project Manager at Alaro City

Alaro City is a joint venture between Rendeavour, the largest new city and industrial park builder in Africa, and the Lagos State Government. It is one of the fastest-growing real estate and urban development projects in Nigeria. It is conceived on 2,000 hectares of land and has areas for offices, logistics and warehousing, homes, schools, healthcare facilities, hotels, entertainment, and 150 hectares of parks and open spaces. Located in the North West Quadrant of the Lekki Free Zone, Alaro City is ideally situated on the Lekki-Epe Expressway for ease of transportation to Lagos or towards the rest of Nigeria.

Alaro City is a secure, predictable, and proven environment for individuals and businesses, and already home to investments by notable global and local businesses such as BUA Group, CAT (Mantrac), Ariel Foods, Kenol, SANA Group, and international real estate developers and investors. It is in close proximity to the future Lagos international airport and close to the region’s largest deep-sea port and major Nigerian and international companies. The people in our team are multi-skilled and experts in their respective fields. They possess a unique drive, underpinned by the desire to help improve Africa’s urban development.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Manager

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Project Manager is responsible for various construction, utilities and general projects throughout the development lifecycle at Alaro City.
• This will be done through effective management of the set budgets and timelines, in conjunction with service providers (where relevant) and Alaro City management.

Key Responsibilities
Other responsibilities include:

• Ensure successful completion of assigned projects in terms of cost, quality, and HSE.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, licensing authorities, and management to determine specifications, risks, and required resources for the projects.
• In charge of end-to-end programme and execution of assigned projects.
• Daily controls of project quality, financials, production efficiency, and project management systems and reporting.
• Ensure daily/weekly and monthly meetings and reports are done as per the organization standards, schedule, and deadlines.
• In charge of project briefs, coordination of designs, BoQs, and just-in-time procurement processes.
• Ensure responsibilities of Consultants, Contractors, and Sub-contractors are clearly agreed.
• Smooth coordination and management of projects team, personnel, consultants, contractors, and vendors.
• Collaborate with the QS to prepare, monitor and control project costs and budgets

Requirements
Hard skills and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Civil or Architectural Engineering, Construction Management, or an equivalent degree.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience as a Project Manager
• Proven experience as a Project Manager in medium to large scale infrastructure works including roads, bridges, dams, sewer, storm drainage, and MEP.
• Experience and implementation of design software such as AutoCAD and Project Management software like MS Project, Primavera, Procore including.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and time management skills.
• Membership with a statutory accreditation body will be an added advantage including but not limited to AAK, EBK, IEK among others.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Requires 24-hour response availability, seven days a week.

Soft Skills:

• Strong commercial judgment.
• Mature, pragmatic, and has a flexible approach,
• Team player but comfortable working autonomously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Rigorous and organized approach.
• Good attention to detail.
• Hands-on, ready to roll up the sleeves.

Personal Characteristics:

• High energy.
• Result-oriented.
• Strong work ethic.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Desire to live and work in Epe, Lagos.

Required Competencies:

• Must have a strong mentoring ability to share and impart knowledge to develop operational talent.
• Understanding and ability to build capacity across disciplines within the organisations i.e., people, structures, and processes.
• Must be able to adapt to the needs of a start-up organisation and energy sector challenges.
• Must have a detailed and thorough approach to infrastructure deployment.
• Must be curious and entrepreneurial in their general approach to tasks.
• Attention to detail, and the ability to work overtime as necessary to get a project done.

Salary
N700,000 - N1,000,000 / month.

Application Closing Date
19th May, 2023.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV to: careersnigeria@rendeavour.com using "Project Manager" as the subject of the mail.