Senior Project Manager

ZipRecruiter; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading construction company as a Senior Project Manager to oversee high-value projects in the Healthcare and Science sectors. You will lead critical project areas, ensuring safe and timely delivery while managing stakeholder expectations. With a commitment to diversity, we invite applicants from all backgrounds to apply.

Benefits

Wide variety of benefits tailored to needs

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience in managing large construction projects worth £500m-£1bn.
• Advantageous experience in healthcare or science sectors.
• Strong skills in building relationships and motivating teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead project areas ensuring safe and high-quality delivery.
• Manage compliance and quality strategies for projects.
• Collaborate closely with commercial teams on project finances.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Construction project delivery

Job description

Job Description

What are we looking to recruit?

We're looking for Senior Project Managers to join our Kier Strategic Projects Business to work on high-value, complex schemes in the Healthcare & Science sector.

At Kier, our Strategic Project business delivers high-value schemes in sectors including Defence, Custodial, Health & Commercial.

Location: Eastern and Northern Home Counties.

Hours: Full-Time Permanent.

*We are flexible on location as the project could be anywhere across the Northern Home and Eastern Counties.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Senior Project Manager, you will likely lead a dedicated area of a major project worth between £500m-£1bn.

Your daily responsibilities will include:

• Managing design and construction to ensure safe, on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery, meeting stakeholder expectations.
• Promoting a strong SHE culture, ensuring all work is planned and executed safely, in line with Kier policies, best practices, and regulations.
• Implementing and managing project quality strategies, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, record-keeping, and high standards per Kier's Quality Management policies.
• Planning, managing, and monitoring subcontractor and supplier performance for competence and compliance.
• Implementing and managing the project delivery strategy.
• Working closely with the commercial team to understand project finances.

What are we looking for?

In a Senior Project Manager, we seek:

• Construction project delivery experience as a Project Manager or Project Director.
• Experience in major projects within the Health or Science sectors is advantageous. Experience with large public sector clients is also desirable.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• The ability to motivate and lead a team.

We value potential at Kier, and transferable skills are welcome! Even if you don't meet every criterion, please apply, and we can discuss further.

Rewards and benefits

We offer a wide variety of benefits tailored to your needs. More information about our benefits can be found here.

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive workplace is a priority. We have taken steps to promote this, and our employees help shape our policies. Details of our D&I action plan are available here.

As a confident employer, we ensure that disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria will be offered an interview.

We look forward to receiving your application. #joinkier #LI-AS2