Christopher Parker Email & Phone Number

Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Gb

Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Gb

Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Gb

- Responsibilities include leading multiple teams of workers, client care, Marquee construction, assisting with logistics planning, managing sites, liaising with catering teams, performing structural and risk assessments, and dealing with ad-hoc client needs.- Managing large sites in public places. Events ranged from large corporate events to festivals to weddings and other celebrations.-Helping the business to adapt to CDM regulations due to its recent introduction to the industry.-Regularly brought into meetings about business decisions due to my previous business experience.-Site visits and surveys for potential new clients, relaying information back to the quoting team.

- Founded the business with a partner and gained immediate work through family friends and current acquaintances.-Followed the business plan and broke even in year two with a turnover of £1.1 million.-Successfully tendered for and completed a national contract for the renovation of veterinary surgeries.-Relationship Management: ensuring that all clients are receiving a high level of service. Maintaining frequent contact and acting as a trusted adviser. Maintaining good working relationships with sub-contractors, building control and residents of neighbouring properties.-Financial management: managing budgets on multiple projects, attention to business cash flow forecasts, assessing finance options for business expansion, sub-contractor payments, client payments, invoicing, CIS Payments, quarterly and yearly accounts.-Time management: using tools such as Gantt charts to effectively time manage projects, the ability to think fast and react to unforeseen changes, ensuring that deadlines are strictly kept to.-Successfully developed new business by networking, tendering, advertising and reputation.-Preparing tender and contract documents (JCT).-Organisation and management: arranging meetings (clients, structural engineers, surveyors, accountants, building control officers), organisation of multiple sub-contractors and site managers.- Health & Safety: completing risk assessments and method statements, environmental assessments and policies, taking the necessary precautions on site and maintaining a high level of health and safety on all sites, conforming to all regulations (CDM), tool box talks.-Site visits and feasibility studies for potential projects on behalf of clients- I also learned a few trades and skills while managing personal and smaller projects such as: plumbing 1st and 2nd fix, drainage, plaster boarding, tiling, joinery and general construction.-Attention to detail in regards quality of finished product.