A rapidly growing network of veterinary practices, centers, and clinics actively invests in the construction, renovation, and optimization of its practices and clinics. The organization is looking for a Technical Project Manager Construction & Real Estate to oversee construction projects from A to Z and ensure quality, timing, and budget.
What you do
As a Technical Project Manager Construction & Real Estate, you represent the client and simultaneously monitor multiple construction and renovation projects, from primary care practices to technically complex specialized clinics. You are the central link between architects, contractors, practice managers, and management. Project preparation and tendering:
- Translates architectural plans into tender documents.
- Prepares or checks specifications and quantity surveys.
- Organizes tenders with general contractors and subcontractors.
- Analyzes offers, compares technical and financial proposals.
- Conducts price and contract negotiations.
Site supervision and coordination:
- Monitors work on site and attends site meetings.
- Oversees planning and quality.
- Coordinates involved parties, handles technical questions, and adjusts where necessary.
- Responsible for delivery and follow-up of any remaining points.
Budget and contract management:
- Monitors project budgets.
- Checks progress statements and assesses the necessity and cost of any additional works.
- Follows contractual agreements and safeguards the interests of the organization as the client.
Stakeholder management and reporting:
- Central point of contact for contractors, architects, practice managers, medical directors, and regional managers.
- Keeps stakeholders informed of progress, planning, and budgets.
- Ensures clear reporting.
Real estate management (eventually):
- Assesses the technical condition of properties the organization wishes to rent or purchase.
- Estimates renovation needs and guides projects related to sustainability, energy optimization, and technical installations.
- Helps develop a structural maintenance policy and associated contract management.
What they ask Education and experience:
- Master's degree in engineering, preferably in civil engineering or electromechanics, or a professional bachelor's degree in construction with extensive relevant experience.
- Minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in project management within the construction sector, preferably on the client side, with a project developer or engineering firm, or as a project leader with a general contractor.
- Demonstrable experience with tenders, offer comparisons, and price negotiations.
- Experience with monitoring both new construction and renovation projects, including shell finishing.
Knowledge and skills:
- Thorough knowledge of construction processes, from shell construction to finishing.
- Good insight into technical installations such as HVAC, electricity, and plumbing.
- Familiar with Belgian building regulations, common contract forms, and the monitoring of progress statements.
- Strong negotiator, cost-conscious, and finds the right balance between budget control and constructive collaboration.
- Hands-on, decisive, and proactive.
- Maintains overview under time pressure, identifies risks promptly, and dares to adjust where necessary.
- Communicates clearly and diplomatically, aligning technical partners and non-technical stakeholders.
Pluses:
- Experience with healthcare infrastructure, laboratories, or other technically complex buildings.
- Experience with simultaneously managing multiple projects.
- Knowledge of French and English.
Practical
- A varied portfolio of construction and renovation projects at various locations in Flanders.
- A dynamic work environment with a lot of responsibility and autonomy.
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