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Senior Project Manager

Kier Construction

Witham

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GBP 60,000 - 100,000

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Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a major construction project valued over £100 million. In this exciting role, you will oversee all aspects of project management from pre-construction through delivery, ensuring compliance with industry standards and maximizing customer satisfaction. Your expertise in managing budgets, contracts, and stakeholder communications will be essential to the project's success. Join a company that values diversity and inclusion, and offers a range of benefits tailored to your needs. If you have a passion for construction and a track record of delivering large-scale projects, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience in leading high-value projects from pre-construction to handover.
  • Demonstrable experience managing project budgets and programs.

Responsibilities

  • Manage project finances, operational communications, and relationships with stakeholders.
  • Provide regular reports and forecasts to management and clients.

Skills

Project Management
Budget Management
Contract Management (NEC, JCT)
Communication Skills
IT Literacy (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email)

Education

Relevant Project Management Certification
SMSTS Certification
CSCS Black Card
First Aid Certification

Tools

ASTA Power Project
Microsoft Project

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Project Manager to join our Eastern South Construction Team.

Location: Witham, Essex with site location of Suffolk

Contract: Full Time, Permanent.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Project Manager you'll be working within the Build Team on a large £100m+ project through 3 years of pre-construction and then circa 3 years on site delivery.

Your Day To Day Will Include

  • Managing the finances (revenue, costs, and cash flow) of projects.
  • Managing operational communications and relationships with customers, contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.
  • Providing regular, accurate, consolidated reports and forecasts for the project to the area management, Kier Group, and customers.
  • Fulfilling contracts safely, on time, and to the required quality while maximising gross margin and customers' satisfaction. In particular, to ensure compliance with Kier Group's policies, procedures and best practices relating to the implementation of the project(s) and the management of the site(s).
What are we looking for?

This role of Senior Project Manager is great for you if you have:

  • Significant experience in leading on projects of significant value from pre-construction through delivery to handover.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing project budgets and programmes.
  • Expert knowledge of delivery under NEC and JCT contract conditions.
  • IT literacy including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Email as well as experience of using ASTA Power Project or Microsoft Project.
  • SMSTS, CSCS Black Card, First Aid.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.


Rewards And Benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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