CAT - Project Manager

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Project Director providing a strategic project lead. Project Manager providing design and construction project management across the whole project. Contract Administrator and Employer's Agent for a number of construction projects. Lot 1: Cynefin Project - Green Heart of Wales: Professional Services This is an exciting opportunity to support the work of the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). CAT is an internationally renowned environmental charity, a world-leading eco centre, and one of the foremost providers of postgraduate environmental education in the UK. The aim of Cynefin is to transform CAT’s capacity to provide the skills, knowledge and understanding needed in the transition to a zero-carbon economy, helping create a sustainable future for all humanity as part of a thriving natural world. Through the creation of a flagship regional sustainable tourism destination and a world-leading skills centre, the project aims to build on CAT’s 45-year history of innovation in environmental solutions and offer a significant new contribution to Wales’ reputation as a leader in sustainability. This is a sizable and complicated project, involving the following activities: - New build exhibition spaces. - New build student and leisure accommodation. - Refurbishment of existing buildings of a variety of construction types. - Refurbishment of the existing water-balance railway line. - Extensive landscaping and ecological works. - New drainage, water treatment, heating, electrical and communications infrastructure. - New car parking facilities and the upgrade of existing roads and paths. - New visitor facilities including cafés, play areas, interpretation, and signage. - Reorganisation of the estate facilities, offices and logistics.