Senior Project Manager – Construction

Overview

As Senior Project Manager, you will lead and mentor project teams to deliver multidisciplinary construction programs for secure government facilities. You will manage planning, budgeting and risk across major work packages, ensuring alignment with policy, safety standards and contractual obligations. You’ll build strong client and stakeholder relationships, identify efficiencies, and pursue opportunities to extend delivery with confidence. This role supports the organisation’s mission to protect UK interests through secure, resilient infrastructure.

Pay / Benefits

• Civil Service Pension
• training and development
• 25 days annual leave
• on-site gym, nursery, café, restaurant
• season ticket and bike loans
• free shuttle bus between Milton Keynes and Hanslope Park

Responsibilities

• Mentor and develop project management capabilities across teams
• Ensure on-time, on-budget project delivery with major work packages and milestones
• Establish and manage project supply chains and forecasting
• Monitor project finances and budgets for own and direct reports’ projects
• Ensure adherence to FCDO Services Project Process Map and Health & Safety policies
• Build and maintain customer/stakeholder relationships and secure KPI performance
• Identify and pursue opportunities for repeat business with clients

Key requirements

• Prince 2 Practitioner, APM PMQ, ISEB Certificate in Project Management or equivalent
• Experience drafting, tendering and managing NEC4 or similar construction contracts
• Applied project management methodologies in multidisciplinary construction projects
• Led teams and managed people
• Experience with Health & Safety standards including CDM 2015
• Strategic risk management experience with risk registers and mitigation planning
• Experience in project cost management: budgeting, cost control, financial tracking and reporting
• Awareness of Project Management products such as MoR, MSP, MoV

• Leadership
• Stakeholder management
• Strategic thinking
• NEC4 (or similar) contracts
• Project management methodologies
• Cost management and forecasting

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