Facilities Senior Project Manager

Henlow

An exciting role for an experienced Construction / Facilities Project Manager has arisen within the MBDA Facilities department to handle major, high value and often complex construction and Facilities projects.

Salary: Circa £60,000 depending on experience.

Dynamic (hybrid) working: Where possible, we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to on-site and remote working. This will be 2/3 days on site per week typically.

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary.
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%.
• Dynamic Working: Mix of on site and working from home.
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave. Enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more.
• Training and Development: Excellent career progression, training and career development opportunities.

The opportunity:

You will be leading project teams of internal and external expertise through development of designs right through to final delivery of new infrastructure and improvement projects. Primarily based at MBDA UK's south east sites (Stevenage, Henlow, Thurleigh). Your projects will range from £500k-£50M+ in value. The role will call on your project & programme management and problem solving skills and you will be encouraged to successfully interface directly with executive and director level collaborators.

What we're looking for from you:

• A project leader with excellent people leadership skills, able to handle and drive the delivery of high-reaching projects.
• Project Management experience, with a strong desire to embed these working principles within the team.
• HNC Qualification or higher in relevant Construction or FM field is desirable.
• Experience and good knowledge of construction contract management.
• Experience and knowledge of leading project through RIBA Plan of Works stages.
• Good experience and knowledge in a Facilities Management / Construction environment - especially statutory compliance such as Building Regulations, CDM and planning.
• Ability to present sometimes sophisticated project proposals in a simple and effective way to senior internal collaborators in order to gain their approvals.
• Strong collaborator leadership skills, including an ability to set expectations and balance conflicting demands.
• Someone that can lead multi-functional project teams on new projects, inclusive of management of external consultants and main contractors, in order to meet programme, cost and quality requirements.
• You will need the ability to interrogate and interpret requirements, based on business understanding, challenging wants against needs when appropriate.
• Ability to adapt to changing and diverse workload with autonomy and resilience.
• Demonstrate a positive, proactive and professional approach, even when under pressure.

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