Senior Project Manager

Kier Group plc.; Coventry; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in the UK is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a Science and Research facility in Coventry. This role involves overseeing the operational management of the project, ensuring safety, quality, and timely delivery. Candidates should have experience in construction project delivery, preferably in the health or science sectors, with strong stakeholder management skills. The company values diversity and welcomes applications from all potential candidates.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience as a Project Manager or Project Director in construction.
• Advantageous to have experience in Major Project, Health or Science sectors.
• Strong skills in relationship building and team motivation.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day design and construction for timely and safe delivery.
• Promote a strong safety and health culture in planning and execution.
• Implement and manage project quality strategy ensuring compliance.
• Monitor subcontractor and supplier performance effectively.
• Collaborate with the commercial function on project finances.

Skills

Construction Project Delivery experience

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Job description

Overview

We're looking for Senior Project Managers to join our Kier Strategic Projects Business in the West Midlands. This key role will join a newly secured Science and Research facility to oversee the day to day Operational management of the project. As a Senior Project Manager you will report into the Project Director and assume operational management of the scheme.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day design and construction ensuring safe, on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery to meet all stakeholder expectations.
• Promote and head a strong SHE culture, ensuring all work is planned and executed safely, in line with Kier policies, best practices, and statutory regulations
• Implement and manage project quality strategy, ensuring compliance with specifications, mitigating risks, maintaining records, and promoting high standards in line with Kier's Quality Management policies
• Plan, manage, and monitor subcontractor and supplier performance, ensuring competence, compliance, and effective collaboration to meet project and contractual requirements
• Implement and manage the project delivery strategy
• Working closely with the commercial function to understand the project finances.

What are we looking for?

• Construction Project Delivery experience as a Project Manager or Project Director
• Any Major Project, Health or Science sector experience is advantageous. If you've worked with large public sector clients we would also like to hear from you!
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
• Ability to motivate and head up a team.

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.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.