Senior Project Manager / Project Manager

Job Description

Purpose

• Client representative accountable for the design, procurement, and delivery of projects in line with client objectives.
• Reports directly to the PM Lead and is responsible for delivering complex and/or high-value projects and programmes.
• May have an Assistant Project Manager reporting into the role, depending on project size and complexity.
• Responsible for managing the interface between design consultants and senior end-users, although design accountability remains with the design consultants.

Key Activities

• Deliver projects through the full project lifecycle in accordance with RIBA stages and GMP governance requirements.
• Establish project meeting structures and chair client meetings.
• Facilitate design and construction meetings with consultants and contractors.
• Prepare and maintain all project documentation.
• Manage the full project team to support successful project delivery.
• Act as NEC Project Manager, including:
  • Responding to CEMAR notifications.
  • Challenging Early Warning Notices (EWNs) and Compensation Events (CEs).
• Support program and commercial management activities within assigned programmes.
• Manage program-level risks, issues, stakeholder engagement, change control, and escalations.
• Deliver projects from design handover (concept or scheme stage) through operational handover in accordance with GMP processes and procedures.
• Define project delivery strategies aligned with client and project objectives.
• Develop and maintain project plans.
• Coordinate design development to ensure end-user requirements are achieved.
• Manage project change control and obtain approvals from Users, PPDM, and EM as required.
• Manage:
  • Scope
  • Schedule
  • Safety
  • Compliance
  • Quality
  • Risk
• Establish and manage reporting structures covering:
  • Project status
  • Risks
  • Issues
  • Mitigation plans
• Report project progress to the PM Lead.
• Coordinate general contractors to ensure construction activities meet design briefs.
• Support development and execution of project quality plans alongside design consultants.
• Lead implementation of project governance and project control tools during construction.

Qualifications

Essential 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Proven project delivery experience.
• NEC4 Accreditation.
• GMP knowledge and experience

Desirable 

• APM Chartered Project Professional.
• Experience in Life Sciences and/or Technical Construction.

Technical Competencies

• Strong commercial and procurement skills.
• Project planning and execution expertise.
• Project schedule development and management.
• Risk and issue management.
• Stakeholder engagement and management.

Summary of Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an experienced Project Manager who can independently manage complex construction projects from design handover through completion, coordinate multiple stakeholders, maintain project schedules, manage risk and change, and operate effectively within a regulated project governance environment. Experience in life sciences projects is desirable but not mandatory.

Additional Information

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