Estates Project Manager

Hays Property and Surveying are seeking an Estates Project Manager to join a leading defence services provider based near Andover, Hampshire.

The organisation is a defence services provider responsible for building, managing and maintaining military estates across the country. They provide a wide range of facilities and estate management services, alongside the delivery of asset lifecycle and capital improvement projects on behalf of key stakeholders.
The Asset Planning team are responsible for reviewing a 5-year programme of future lifecycle works and the planning and procurement of construction projects across the estate. The team are now looking to appoint a new Project Manager, who will work closely with other senior team members based at one of their key locations near Andover, Hampshire.

The role will be mainly office-based with an opportunity to work from home one day a week.
Your new role
As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for reviewing asset management and condition data in order to plan, specify and procure multiple lifecycle construction and maintenance works. Your technical involvement will be predominantly focused on all pre-construction stages of a consultant-led process, ensuring projects are set up and handed over to the delivery teams efficiently and within the agreed timescales.

Key responsibilities -

• Ensure projects are fully defined, specified, tendered, and competitively priced.
• Include the necessary facilitating surveys, in line with the master programme of works to enable key milestones to be achieved.
• Plan projects so they can be executed with minimum disruption to the estate.
• Prepare Pre-Construction Information packs in accordance with CDM Regulations.
• Ensure compliance is adhered to, including all procedures and processes regarding Lifecycle, Change Management, Project Management and Procurement
• Provide project handover files to the Project Delivery Teams and provide continued support once the Pre-construction Phase is completed.

What you'll need to succeed

• A relevant construction qualification equal to an HND/NVQ level or above.
• Proven experience in pre-construction project management.
• A track record of planning and preparing schedules of work for multiple large-scale construction and/or estate lifecycle maintenance projects.
• Experience and an understanding of construction contract procurement.
• Experience of the defence sector would be advantageous.
• Excellent financial and written communication skills.

What you need to do now
For more information regarding this, or any other opportunity, please contact our Southampton based Property and Surveying specialist Jamie Poll on .

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