Location: Mayfair, Central London
Sector: Commercial / Super-Prime Mixed-Use
Employment Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive Basic Salary + Comprehensive Benefits Package
The Opportunity
Skilled Careers are working in partnership with an established and financially secure main contractor to appoint an experienced Project Manager for a prestigious £130m commercial redevelopment in London’s West End.
The business has built an excellent reputation for delivering complex, high-value projects across the commercial, mixed-use and high-end refurbishment sectors, with a strong emphasis on quality, long-standing client relationships and repeat business.
This appointment represents an opportunity to join an established project team delivering a technically challenging flagship development through to completion.
The Project
The scheme comprises the extensive redevelopment of an existing commercial building to provide approximately 220,000 sq ft of premium Grade A office and luxury retail accommodation.
Works involve significant structural alterations, cut-and-carve construction, retained historic façades, complex interfaces between existing and new structures, and high-specification internal finishes.
The development incorporates basement works and ten upper floors, with an ambitious sustainability strategy targeting BREEAM Outstanding.
The programme into 2028, providing an opportunity to contribute to the delivery of a landmark Central London development.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate allocated elements of the construction programme, ensuring delivery against programme, quality and safety objectives.
- Oversee site management teams, subcontractors and specialist trade contractors.
- Work closely with the Project Director and wider project leadership team to maintain progress and resolve operational challenges.
- Coordinate with design, commercial and technical teams to manage construction interfaces and sequencing.
- Ensure works are delivered in accordance with approved drawings, specifications and quality standards.
- Identify programme risks, manage subcontractor performance and implement appropriate mitigation measures.
- Maintain high standards of health, safety and environmental compliance.
- Support the delivery of works through to completion, commissioning and handover.
Candidate Requirements
- Demonstrable experience operating as a Project Manager with an established Tier 1 or Tier 2 main contractor.
- Strong understanding of structural alterations, retained façades, complex construction sequencing and high-quality finishes.
- Experience managing subcontractors, multidisciplinary delivery teams and challenging construction programmes.
- A track record of taking projects or significant work packages through multiple construction stages, ideally through to handover.
- Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A stable employment history demonstrating commitment and progression.
- Relevant construction qualifications and appropriate site management certifications.
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to join a well-established contractor with a strong financial position, a healthy pipeline of secured work and a reputation for delivering exceptional projects.
The successful candidate will benefit from working alongside an experienced senior management team on a technically demanding, high-profile development that will be a significant addition to their project portfolio.
The business offers long-term career opportunities, genuine progression and the chance to work on some of London’s most prestigious construction schemes.
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