Job Description

Senior Project Manager - Construction
Location: South Gloucestershire Council
Contract Type: Limited Term - 12 months
Working Arrangement: Hybrid (remote and office-based)
Salary: 45,091 - 48,226p/a
Hours: Full Time, 37 hours per week
Key Highlights

• Lead major capital construction projects from inception to completion.

• Manage contractors and consultants across RIBA stages.

• Deliver projects on time, within budget, and to high standards.

• Provide strategic and technical guidance across the council.

• Hybrid working model offering flexibility.

What will you be doing

• Responsible for managing the successful delivery of specified capital projects, including the procurement and management of contracts of contractors and consultants, you will ensure works and services are tendered in accordance with financial regulations and standing orders.

• You will prepare and regularly update programmes, risk management registers, overall project cost reports, ensuring cost plans are prepared at appropriate gateways and oversee the legal transfer of assets and input to development agreements.

• It will be your responsibility to prepare tender reports and appraisals for director approval and implement a change management strategy to monitor and control time, cost, and quality and also attend project meetings and public engagement meetings.

• A key part of the role is to develop innovative solutions to technical issues ensuring that appropriate solutions are proposed and successfully implemented and consult on issues with wider implications whilst adhering to service regulations and codes of practice.

• Providing technical advice, support, and training to colleagues, you will ensure that performance objectives are achieved, teamwork is effective, colleagues are supported and that the team is technically capable, and technical work is carried out satisfactorily.

What we need from you

• You will hold a construction related degree or equivalent qualification and significant relevant experience in project management on large scale capital projects.

• It is essential that you have proven experience in leading multiple major projects without supervision, delivering contracts, guidance and statues and the ability to develop and deliver design briefs.

• We require you to have experience of planning and progressing work activities within general professional guidelines or organisational policy and have an in-depth knowledge of service specific and professional issues.

• You will have knowledge and experience of working with specific performance management and project improvement tools with the ability to work to strict deadlines, managing a demanding workload and prioritising accordingly.

• Having an excellent strategic awareness, you will have experience of working in political environment, able to communicate and influence effectively with clients, consultants, and contractors.

Apply Now
If you have the skills for this role, please apply. If your CV is shortlisted, an Adecco Consultant will be in touch to look at submitting your full application to the Council.
Closing date: 21st September 2025
Interview date: 26th September 2025
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