Project Manager

Bovis; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private medical

Parental leave

Life assurance

Annual leave

Wellbeing days

Employee assistance

Job summary

Bovis is recruiting a Project Manager to oversee the delivery of fit-out packages on our Grade 1 listed Manchester Town Hall refurbishment, ensuring timely completion and preserving historical integrity.

You will lead project teams, coordinate design and supply chain, manage risks, and uphold safety and quality standards across the site.

Qualifications

• Have a related Chartership such as CIOB.
• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role.

Responsibilities

• Provide project leadership and manage execution from initiation to completion.
• Create detailed project strategy, plan and schedule and drive delivery within the plan.
• Ensure compliance with company safety requirements and manage project risks.

Skills

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Chartered CIOB

Professional Construction Qualifications

Tools

BIM

CAD

BIW

Job description

We are recruiting for a Project Manager to oversee the successful delivery of fit‑out packages on our iconic Grade 1 listed Manchester Town Hall refurbishment project. The role is integral to ensuring the project's timely completion and maintaining the building's historical integrity.

The role of the Project Manager is to provide project leadership and support to ensure the project management activities are conducted in compliance with Bovis health, safety, and environmental policies. Responsible for providing technical, commercial, and operational support, together with production, quality, and operational/site management support and managing costs whilst creating a supportive and collaborative environment, meeting client expectations and enhancing the reputation of the Bovis business. The role of the Project Manager is to ensure that an effective and productive liaison is established with respect to all aspects of the project delivery, between the design team, project/site team, commercial, client teams and supply chain, putting the expertise of all to the best possible use. The Manager will liaise with the Design Manager and will be instrumental in coordinating and guiding the consultant team and supply chain through the delivery of the packages to mitigate design risk and maximise value to the client/business.

Key Responsibilities

The Project Manager is responsible for providing project leadership and managing the overall execution of construction projects from initiation to completion.

This encompasses creating a detailed project strategy, plan, and schedule, and driving the project delivery within that plan to maximise outcomes for the client and the business.

The Project Manager is accountable for the implementation and compliance with all company safety requirements across staff, contractors, and work practices, actively managing and mitigating project risks through comprehensive understanding and collaboration.

Credentials

• Have a related Chartership such as CIOB.
• Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role

Skills

• Ability to prepare short, medium and long-term programmes to establish coordinated strategies to deliver works packages.
• Ability to manage package risks and drive opportunities to maximise value.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical, to clients, supply chain, peers, and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate an ability to be flexible in recognising where working methods require adapting and changing to suit a change in project needs or new challenges.
• Demonstrate an ability to ensure delivery of work packages and in places betterment of commercial targets.
• Demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively and lead the construction delivery team and construction workforce.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations, standards, and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of the construction industry.
• Working knowledge of different forms of contracts.
• Understanding of programme duration and sequencing of works of relevant aspects of construction.

Experience

• Demonstratable experience of the delivery of construction projects.
• Experience managing multiple supply chains, including sub-contractors and suppliers.
• Experience of dealing with clients, contractors, and construction activities.
• Experience managing consultants to ensure design and quality assurance deliverables are achieved and recorded.
• Design, procurement, construction, and delivery experience.
• Experienced with and capable of being part of a bid team and undertaking pre-construction planning.
• Experience in the design of temporary and permanent works (including BIM, BIW, CAD).

Behaviours

• Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team player.
• Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury.
• Eager to make an impact on the local community to create a lasting legacy.
• Strategic thinking and visionary.
• Develop and maintain relationships with trust and confidence.

We will provide:

• Up to 10% employer pension contribution
• Private medical health benefit
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days
• 3 days wellbeing leave in addition to annual leave
• Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
• 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme including direct access to Talking Therapies and Coaching services
• Discounted gym membership to over 2,500 gyms nationwide
• Industry leading parental leave

Belong at Bovis

We offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equal treatment and equal opportunity are just the norm. We are a disability inclusive employer. If you need any adjustment or changes to the process, email us to let us know if you have a preferred communication method.

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Bovis is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer of choice by engaging, enabling and empowering our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. Inclusion sets us all up for success and we particularly encourage applications from currently under‑represented groups in our industry including those who self‑identify as women, black, Asian, minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or disabled.