Project Manager - Lead Technical Advisor (DFE)
Company: Gleeds Corporate Services Ltd
Location: City of Westminster
Posted: May 3rd, 2026
Project Manager – Lead Technical Advisor (DFE)
Must have experience working on Department for Education projects, and be Chartered, or working towards the final stages of obtaining.
Responsibilities
- Supporting Business Unit Directors in delivering business objectives
- Positively engaging with customers and developing, growing and maintaining customer relationships
- Delivering high quality services and deliverables ensuring that services meet our Customer’s requirements.
- Managing projects and/or programmes to deliver high quality services and deliverables in accordance with the business procedures
- Administering contracts as a contract administrator, employer’s agent or project manager
- Producing and presenting to customers
- Identifying new business development opportunities and driving growth across the business units activities
- Managing service delivery for profit
- Advising directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or may arise, on projects; in particular those that might impact on Gleeds professional indemnity (PI) insurance
Benefits
- Opportunities to develop and grow your career
- A contributory pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Our Global Travel Scholarship Programme
- Flexible working arrangements
Who we’re looking for
Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills
- Sound project management and/or programme management experience post qualification
- Sound knowledge and practiced experience of project management techniques
- Ability to administer construction contracts as Contract Administrator, Employer’s Agent and/or Project Manager
- Clear understanding of legislation impacting on building contracts
- Excellent communication skills – both oral and written
- Methodical way of thinking and approach to work
- Ability to absorb complex information and assess requirements readily
- Excellent problem solving, negotiating, financial and numeracy skills
- Sound ICT skills, with a high proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Ability to work as part of a team
Qualifications
- MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)
- MAPM (Member of the Association of Project Managers)
- MCIOB (Member of the Chartered Institute of Builders)
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