MB935: Senior Project Manager (Pre Construction)
Location: Workington
Salary: £80,000 + £5,750 Car Allowance
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
Additional Company Benefits: Exceptional Career Development Opportunities, Company Car/Car Allowance (Depending on job grade), Pension matched up to 8%, 25 days annual leave – plus holiday (opportunity to buy/sell leave will be implemented from January 2026), Private medical insurance, Free 24/7 EAP
Overview
First Military Recruitment is proudly working in partnership with a fantastic national construction business who are looking for a Senior Project Manager (Pre Construction) on a permanent basis due to growth based at either their Workington depot.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Be responsible for the overall business results of the project.
- Cooperate in the process of subcontractor and supplier procurement. Critically review all subcontracts, orders and the like prior to providing final approval for award in accordance with company procedures.
- Identify additional and future business opportunities and provide information to appropriate internal teams where present.
- Represent the project to client, external bodies, and others as required.
- Ensure the project change management process is correctly followed in line with contract, subcontract, project and company requirements, maximizing commercial opportunities whilst maintaining sustainable business relationships with all parties.
- Support the business in delivering corporate objectives, strategies and initiatives across all areas of the project and business.
- Provide support to business development and work winning as required, including arranging use of project resources.
- Lead the project team in ensuring compliance and striving to ensure best practice in all areas of the project.
- Lead the opportunities and risk process on the project.
- Ensure production, periodic critical review and update of the project programme, in accordance with project requirements. In conjunction with appropriate section managers, identify areas of variance from planned outputs and production, develop and implement appropriate improvement plans, and ensure capture of required commercial matters.
- Make all project staff appointments as per project IMS plan. Review on a periodic basis and update as required.
- Manage staff requirements on the project, including identification and management of budgets, oversight of recruitment processes and managing the annual review process.
- Challenge resource levels, workloads and training needs to ensure a well-balanced, competent and motivated project team is in place.
- Actively promote high standards of Health, Safety, Environmental, Sustainability and Quality compliance, including active monitoring of performance. Act as a role model for exceeding compliance.
- Maintain a high level of personal knowledge of requirements and engage external advisors as required for the project.
- Ensure completion of all required actions following accidents, incidents, near misses and the like. Ensure Observation Cards process is implemented and followed on the project, including active review and feedback.
- Critically review and approve the project IMS plan. Ensure compliance in all areas through leading and implementing the measures defined in the plan.
- Undertake duties as identified and appointed.
- Undertake other duties as defined and appointed under the Project Specific IMS plan or as defined by the Project Director.
- Provide records of innovation, lessons learned and improvements from all project areas to support business development and improvements.
- Produce or ensure production of all required project reports, forecasts and improvement plans, both internally and externally, including taking ownership of the contents thereof.
- Ensure all required documented outputs and records are correctly uploaded to Themis and other project document control systems.
Skills and Qualifications
- Detailed knowledge of overall project, including contractual and commercial requirements.
- Good knowledge of client and interested parties' interests.
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