Senior Project Manager

MHS Homes; Chatham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A housing association in Chatham is seeking a Project Manager to manage a team delivering Planned Maintenance and Improvement Works. The role includes contract administration, ensuring compliance with legislation, and overseeing quality standards. Ideal candidates will have a degree or extensive experience in a similar role, strong management skills, and budget oversight capabilities.

Qualifications

• Ability to manage and motivate a team.
• Detailed contract knowledge and practice.
• Experience in preparing specifications for tendering.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing contracts and ensuring compliance and quality.
• Preparing specifications for planned works.
• Supporting planning and delivery of planned projects.

Skills

Team management

Budget control

Attention to detail

Excellent customer focus

Technical knowledge in planned works

Education

Construction related Degree or 5 years’ experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Asset management software (e.g., Keystone)

Job description

Overview

You'll manage a team of project managers delivering Planned Maintenance and Improvement Works to our properties. There is a focus on external repairs and the following works:

• Painting works
• Window, door and roofline
• Pitched and flat roof
• Boundary/retaining wall
• Resurfacing
• Energy measures

You will have oversight of all contracts within the Planned Investment function, ensuring that programmes delivered by your team are to appropriate legislative, compliance and quality standards. Additionally, you' ull have contract administration duties including specification preparation, undertaking surveys and inspections to our stock to assist in future planning of the planned maintenance and improvement programmes. Your role and scope of works will be influenced by the needs of the Investment team, a key part of the wider Asset Management Team. A DBS check is required for this role.

Responsibilities

Join mhs and contribute to making a meaningful impact on the lives of young people in our community.

Responsibilities include overseeing contracts, ensuring compliance and quality, preparing specifications, and supporting planning and delivery of planned works within the stock.

Qualifications

• A construction related Degree or 5 years’ experience gained delivering a similar role
• Detailed contract knowledge and practice
• Ability to manage and motivate a team
• Budget control and oversight on team finance and delivery against target
• Ability to review information in detail, analyse and report concisely
• Excellent technical knowledge in planned works
• An understanding of matters affecting planned projects including Section 20 and Building Regulations
• The ability to support the team and provide guidance and advise on planned works issues, procedures, and contract administration
• Excellent customer focus
• Effectively lead, manage, and motivate to ensure that there is a culture of collaborative working to achieve the corporate goal of mhs
• Knowledge of Building / Construction techniques
• Able to specify and design Planned Work Projects across mhs homes stock
• Able to prepare specifications for Planned Work Projects for tendering
• Working effectively with colleagues across the business
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
• Experience with asset management software (e.g., Keystone)

Benefits and Equality

We value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

We’re a Disability Confident employer. If you tell us you have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the job, we’ll offer you an interview. We can be flexible when assessing people so everyone has the best opportunity to demonstrate they can do the job.

Application Instructions

Please note we are using an anonymised recruitment process for this role. The shortlisting panel will only see personal details or CVs if you are shortlisted for interview. Shortlisting will be based on your application and supporting statement. Please complete all sections fully and refer to the role profile when telling us about your skills and experience.