Project Director

Kitson Associates; East Midlands; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Kitson Associates is seeking a Project Director in the East Midlands with hybrid working options. You will own infrastructure across a large residential/mixed-use development, coordinating planning obligations and utilities strategy, reporting to the Technical Director.

You will lead delivery across highways, drainage, utilities, schedules, budgets and risk management, acting as the primary point of contact for authorities and contractors to ensure on-time progress.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering large-scale residential or mixed-use developments.
• Strong knowledge of planning conditions, S106 agreements, infrastructure delivery, utilities and phasing.
• Experience working with local authorities and statutory undertakers.
• Strong programme and commercial awareness.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of all strategic and phase-specific infrastructure: highways, drainage, earthworks, utilities and enabling works.
• Own the utilities strategy, managing ICPs, IDNOs, telecoms and securing network capacity and reinforcements.
• Maintain a live schedule of planning conditions and drive discharge submissions with consultants and the LPA.
• Manage highways and drainage adoptions.
• Be the main contact for the Local Planning Authority, Highway Authority, Environment Agency, utility providers, landowners and contractors.
• Run infrastructure programmes, risk registers and budgets, and spot value engineering opportunities.

Skills

Project leadership

Infrastructure delivery

Planning conditions

Commercial awareness

Education

Engineering/Planning/Construction degree

Job description

NEW ROLE IN!!

Project Director

East Midlands | Hybrid working

Up to £90,000 + Package

If I’m honest, this is one of the most exciting roles I’ve had on my desk in a while!!

A major strategic development, real ownership, and the chance to shape a new community from the ground up. My client is looking for a Project Director to take full ownership of infrastructure, utilities and planning obligations across a development in the East Midlands, reporting into the Technical Director.

You’ll be the single point of contact, ensuring each phase comes forward on time... and trust me, you’ll be everyone's go-to person.

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading delivery of all strategic and phase-specific infrastructure: highways, drainage, earthworks, utilities and enabling works
• Owning the utilities strategy, managing ICPs, IDNOs, telecoms and securing network capacity and reinforcements
• Keeping a live schedule of planning conditions and driving discharge submissions with consultants and the LPA
• Managing highways and drainage adoptions
• Being the main contact for the Local Planning Authority, Highway Authority, Environment Agency, utility providers, landowners and contractors
• Running infrastructure programmes, risk registers and budgets, and spotting value engineering opportunities

What I’m looking for:

• Significant experience delivering large-scale residential or mixed-use developments
• Strong knowledge of planning conditions, S106 agreements, infrastructure delivery, utilities and phasing.
• Experience working with local authorities and statutory undertakers
• Strong programme and commercial awareness

Nice to have:

• Strategic urban extension or new settlement experience
• Degree in Engineering, Planning, Construction or similar
• RTPI, ICE, RICS or similar membership

Kitson Associates is an Equal Opportunities Employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.