Senior Project Manager - Structures

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Manager will lead the structures package for a large cut and carve project, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental policies. They are responsible for providing technical, commercial, and operational support while managing project strategy, costs, and stakeholder relationships.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a relevant chartership such as CIOB, MICE, or IstructE and possess professional construction qualifications like a BSc or MSc. Extensive experience in medium to large-scale residential and commercial construction projects is essential, along with strong leadership and project management skills.

Skills

• Project management
• Leadership
• Construction management
• Stakeholder management
• Risk management
• Commercial awareness
• Team mentoring
• Project planning
• Resource allocation
• Design team coordination
• Health and safety compliance
• Quality control
• Procurement
• Strategic thinking
• Communication
• Emotional intelligence

Benefits

• Car allowance
• Employer pension contribution
• Private medical health benefit
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life assurance
• Annual leave
• Wellbeing leave
• Health and wellbeing support
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership

About this role

We are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager - Structures to lead on
the structures package on a large cut and carve project in Central London. 

Summary

The role of the senior project manager is to provide leadership to ensure the
project management activities are conducted in compliance with Bovis health,
safety, and environmental policies. Responsible for providing technical,
commercial, and operational support, together with production, quality,
operational/site management support and managing costs whilst creating a
supportive and collaborative environment, meeting client expectations and
enhancing the reputation of the Bovis business.  

As senior project manager, your role is to ensure that an effective and
productive liaison is established with respect to all aspects of the commercial
office delivery, between the design team, project / site team, commercial,
client teams and supply chain putting the expertise of all to the best possible
use. The Manager will liaise with the Project Director and Design Manager and
will be instrumental in coordinating and guiding the consultant team and supply
chain through the delivery of the packages to mitigate design risk and maximise
value to the client/business.

Key Responsibilities

* Provide leadership in the creation of skills, well-being and develop a
supportive work environment for delivery staff.

* Creating a detailed project strategy, plan and schedule and managing the
project delivery within that plan ensuring the maximum outcomes for the
client and Bovis.

* Ensure quality is at a consistently high level and proactively identify
quality issues, setting up and monitoring systems and outputs to ensure right
first-time construction.

* Establish and maintain appropriate communication and record keeping with all
project stakeholders.

* Review all costs and controls.

* Build and maintain a qualified and experienced team. Managing the performance
and development of the project team through coaching, mentoring and building
the required skills and experience to ensure Bovis is recognised as a place
people want to work and excels in project delivery.

* Processes and Systems, use and promote Bovis standard tools and systems to
deliver a successful outcome

* Risk Management, develop a comprehensive understanding of project risk and
through communication and collaboration.

* Compliance,

* Accountable for the implementation and compliance with all Bovis safety
requirements across staff, contractors and work practices ensuring
appropriate records are maintained and required reports are available.

* Recognise and reward safe behaviours and practices.

* Review the EHS plans and regularly review lessons learnt. Review the project
sustainability objectives and targets ensuring compliance with Bovis
standards and local regulatory requirements.

* Build and maintain external relationships (e.g. clients,
contractors/subcontracts) and develop trust and confidence

Essential Credentials

* Have a related Chartership such as CIOB. MICE, IstructE

* Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role (BSc or MSc in
Project Management or Building / Construction Studies or Engineering). 

Skills, Knowledge, Experience, Behaviours

Essential Skills

* High emotional intelligence and able to demonstrate key leadership skills. 

* Proven track record of delivering successful construction projects. 

* Management and mentoring of staff and development of skills. 

* Experience of project planning and resource allocation & managing design
teams. 

* Demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively and lead the construction
delivery team and construction workforce. 

* Demonstrate an ability to be flexible in recognising where working methods
require adapting and changing to suit a change in project needs or new
challenges. 

* Demonstrate an ability to ensure delivery of work packages and in places
betterment of commercial targets. 

* Ability to provide leadership in the creation of skills, well-being and
develop a supportive work environment for delivery staff. 

* Ability to manage the project delivery within a timely manner to ensure the
maximum outcomes for the client and Bovis 

Essential Knowledge

* An in-depth knowledge of the construction process and construction methods. 

* Knowledge of current construction laws, legislations, and regulations,
standards and procedures. 

* Expert knowledge of the construction industry. 

* Understanding of programme duration and sequencing of works of relevant
aspects of construction. 

Essential Experience

* Pre-construction and site establishment experience. 

* Experience of dealing with clients, contractors and construction activities. 

* Design, procurement, construction and delivery experience. 

* Experience in the delivery of medium to large scale residential new build
projects (£50m + in construction value). 

* Demonstratable experience of the delivery of major commercial office
buildings. 

* Experienced with and capable of being part of a bid team and undertaking
pre-construction planning. 

* Experience in design of temporary and permanent works (including BIM, BIW,
CAD). 

* Experience with Civil infrastructure (not vertical build) site wide i.e.
highways, aviation etc, 

Essential Behaviours

* Flexibility and openness of approach and willingness to work as a team
player.

* Must lead in the Incident and Injury Free (IIF) vision, both personal and
organisational, to create an existence absent of incident and injury.

* Eager to make an impact on the local community to create legacy.

* Strategic thinking and visionary.

* Develop and maintain relationships with trust and confidence.

* Willingness and drive to create environments where teams thrive.

* Ability to hold teams to account, have difficult conversations w...

About Bovis

Construction · 501-1,000 employees · headquartered in United Kingdom · founded 1885