Senior Project Manager

Blue Octopus Recruitment; Coventry; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holidays

Annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Life Assurance

Pension

Digital GP and EAP

Sharesave

Lifestyle Hub

Job summary

Lovell is seeking a Senior Project Manager to deliver high-value planned maintenance and refurbishment projects across the Midlands. You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, drive safety, quality and budget adherence, and build strong relationships with clients, residents and subcontractors.

The role emphasizes leadership, customer focus and continuous improvement across contracts, reporting to the Operations Director and championing best practices in health and safety and CDM compliance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large-scale planned maintenance, refurbishment and construction projects.
• Strong leadership, communication and commercial awareness.
• Solid knowledge of health and safety, CDM compliance and quality management.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of multiple high-value projects across the Midlands.
• Manage large multidisciplinary teams and ensure projects are on time and within budget.
• Develop strong relationships with clients, residents, subcontractors and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Construction PM

Health & safety

Job description

Permanent – Full Time – 40 hours

Are you an experienced construction leader looking to make a real impact?

We're seeking an ambitious Senior Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of multiple high-value planned maintenance and refurbishment projects across the Midlands.

Reporting to the Operations Director, you'll be responsible for driving operational excellence across several contracts, managing large multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring projects are delivered safely, on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. You'll build strong relationships with clients, residents, subcontractors, and internal stakeholders while championing customer satisfaction and continuous improvement.

We're looking for someone with proven experience in planned maintenance, refurbishment, and construction project delivery, coupled with strong leadership, commercial awareness, and a thorough understanding of health and safety, CDM compliance, and quality management. Knowledge of high-rise projects, fire safety, and resident liaison is highly desirable.

If you're passionate about leading people, delivering exceptional results, and shaping successful projects that make a difference to communities, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

• Holidays - 26 days + ability to purchase additional holiday

• Annual bonus linked to company performance

• Private medical insurance

• Life Assurance

• Pension

• Digital GP and Employee assistance programme (EAP)

• Sharesave scheme

• Access to our discount portal, LifeStyle Hub

As an Investors in People Gold award employer, Lovell is the UK’s leading provider of mixed tenure affordable homes and has a reputation for innovation and excellence in the delivery of high-quality housing development and regeneration projects.

We are committed to enhancing the communities in which we work, building quality homes for real people and looking after our own people; developing talent is key to achieving this. We understand that the success of our organisation comes from the strengths, skills and personalities of our people. Lovell is an equal opportunities employer who encourage and value diversity and inclusion within our teams.

The Lovell culture is one that has been successful for many years. It is based on empowering colleagues to make decisions at a regional and local level, and to challenge the status quo whilst working as one to achieve our goals and make Lovell a great place to work for all.