Job Description
Senior Project Manager
Surrey (with travel to all our client's sites)
The Organisation
Our client manages green spaces across London.
They are now looking for a Senior Project Manager to join them on a full-time, 18 month fixed-term contract, working 36 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of £55,000 - £63,317 per annum, depending on experience
- 26 days' annual leave plus public holidays
- Pension scheme (3% employee contribution; up to 10% employer contribution)
- Hybrid/agile working options
- Private medical insurance and healthcare cash plan
- Employee assistance programme and access to mental health first aiders
- Learning and development opportunities
- Cycle to work scheme
- Offices in a beautiful location
This is a landmark opportunity for an experienced construction project manager with strong knowledge of RIBA Stages 4-7 and contract administration to join our client's iconic charity organisation.
You'll have the chance to apply your expertise in a setting of national importance, delivering meaningful projects in sensitive and historic environments.
What's more, with hybrid/agile working options, alongside a generous benefits package, you'll be supported to perform at your best while advancing your career on a high-profile project.
So, if you're ready to lead projects that protect and shape some of London's most iconic landscapes, our client would love to hear from you.
The Role
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of a high profile, multi million pound capital project within a Grade I listed landscape.
With planning consent secured and enabling works underway, you'll take responsibility for the built and hard landscape elements of the project through RIBA Stages 4-7, delivering a new café, public toilets and cycle hire facilities to an exceptional standard.
You'll co-ordinate contractors, consultants and internal teams, manage cost and risk, discharge planning conditions, and ensure the project achieves a BREEAM Excellent rating.
Additionally, you will:
- Manage the project budget, programme, risks and change control
- Oversee contract administration (NEC) in collaboration with the Quantity Surveyor
- Work with the Senior Landscape Project Manager to ensure seamless integration of built and landscape works
- Ensure compliance with planning, heritage, environmental and health & safety requirements (including CDM 2015)
- Lead stakeholder engagement
- Provide regular progress, budget and risk reporting
- Support project handover, Health & Safety files and updates
About You
To be considered as a Senior Project Manager, you will need:
- Extensive experience delivering new build construction projects
- Strong knowledge of the RIBA Plan of Work, particularly stages 4-7
- Experience administering contracts (NEC and/or JCT)
- Practical knowledge of health & safety legislation, including CDM 2015
- Excellent budget management, reporting and risk management skills
- The ability to build strong working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders
- A degree in construction, engineering or a related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- A project management qualification (PRINCE2, APM or similar)
Other organisations may call this role Project Lead, Project Delivery Manager, Senior Project Supervisor, or Planning and Project Delivery Manager.
Our client wants to put everyone in the best possible position to succeed and uses Recite-me accessibility software. At the top of the application page, there is an "Accessibility Tools" button which you can use to complete the application form in a way that works for you.
Our client is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunities employer. They value diversity and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds. They believe that the more inclusive they are, the better their work will be.
So, if you are interested in this unique opportunity as a Senior Project Manager, please apply via the button shown. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.
