Senior Project Manager - Property Capital Projects

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How You’ll Make a Difference

Y ou will be responsible for the project m anagement and successful delivery of specified major capital projects over a period of approximately 18 months ending in late 2025. Y ou will provide construction project management services throughout the relevant RIBA Stages managing teams of professional construction consultants and contractors.

In this role you will take the lead in managing key projects for the Property & Business Support service and work with colleagues from across the Authority and with external partners and stakeholders to ensure the projects are delivered effectively and on schedule by achieving key objectives and providing value for money.

This is a Limited Term Contract for 18 months, with possible contract extenstion.

Part Time working hours 2 – 3 days per week, with flexibility.

What will you be doing?

• In the role you will be responsible for managing the successful delivery of specified capital projects, providing a full Project Management service across the RIBA Stages.
• Managing the procurement of contractors and consultants, you will ensure works and services are tendered in accordance with SGC’s financial regulations and standing orders. It will also be your responsibility to manage the contracts for the engagement of contractors and consultants.
• It will be you responsibiity to prepare and regularly update programmes, risk management registers, overall project cost reports, ensuring cost plans are prepared at appropriate gateway and also prepare tender reports/appraisals for Director approval and implement a Change Management strategy to monitor and control time, cost, and quality.
• You will oversee the legal transfer of assets and provide advice and input to the Development Agreements and attend project meetings and public engagement meetings.
• It is essential that you develop innovative solutions to technical issues ensuring that appropriate solutions are proposed and successfully implemented and consult on issues with wider implications whilst adhering to service regulations and codes of practice.
• On a daily basis you will be giving technical advice and guidance, support, and training to colleagues to ensure that performance objectives are achieved, teamwork is effective, colleagues are supported and that the team is technically capable and technical work is carried out satisfactorily.
  
  

What We Need From You

• You must hold a construction related degree or equivalent qualification and significant relevant experience in project management on large scale capital projects.
• It is essential that you have demonstrable, proven experience in leading multiple major projects without supervision within depth professional knowledge and the ability to develop and deliver design briefs. You must have a knowledge of all relevant contracts, guidance and statues and ability to keep these up to date.
• We require you to have experience of planning and progressing work activities within general professional guidelines or organisational policy and have an in-depth knowledge of service specific and professional issues, able to communicate effectively with clients, consultants, and contractors.
• You will have both knowledge and experience of working with specific performance improvement tools and strong ICT skills.
• You must possess an excellent strategic awareness with experience of working in a political environment.
• It is essential that you have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, influencing and persuasive.
• We require you to have the ability to work to strict deadlines, managing a demanding workload and prioritising accordingly.
  
  

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.
  
  

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a realdifference to the lives of people who live, work, and learnhere.

• We’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of
• We’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life
• We’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
  
  

We’re making a difference, be part of it!