Project Manager - UK

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The Role: Project Manager
The Location: Leeds - Hybrid working
Salary: £up to £75k plus car/allowance and package
Employment: Permanent Role

Hybrid role with several offices to work from across the UK

Search is working with a well-established and highly reputable construction company who due to growth is looking for an experienced Project Manager to join their team.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a company that can offer a secure permanent role, competitive salary and career progression

Role

We are looking for a experienced Project Manager to support the long term growth of a Production & Manufacturing (P&M) and Defence sector, delivering large-scale and complex construction projects across the UK. Ideally we require someone from a Main Contracting background, with proven experience delivering major projects within live operational environments.

Duties & Responsibilities

* Provide proactive leadership as the number one lead on the project, maintaining full control of all elements, including design coordination, programme and planning, health & safety, operational delivery, and subcontractor management.
* Delivering projects within production and manufacturing environments, including delivery within safety-critical, highly regulated and secure environments, where safety, programme certainty and minimal operational disruption are critical.
* Experience working for a blue-chip contractor and on projects involving heavy civils and infrastructure interfaces is essential.
* Hold a relevant qualification in a construction-related subject and will demonstrate strong capability in managing cost and commercial performance on fast-track and complex schemes, often with a high degree of change during the contract period.
* Close collaboration with internal project teams is essential, alongside ensuring accuracy, quality and compliance with client and regulatory standards.
* On-site commercial responsibility for contract performance, maximising turnover and profitability while maintaining robust commercial processes and effective change management.

Successful candidates will come from a Main Contracting background, with a minimum of 5 years' hands-on project delivery experience and hold a full UK driving licence. A strong working knowledge of JCT contracts is essential, with NEC experience desirable but not essential. The role requires nationwide travel in line with project requirements.

Personal Attributes

The successful candidate will be a confident and credible leader with a calm, methodical approach, capable of managing senior client stakeholders through clear and effective communication. They will be highly organised, with excellent time and programme management skills, and commercially astute with a proactive approach to risk and change management. The role requires flexibility and comfort working nationwide and away from home as required, alongside resilience and adaptability gained through experience operating within pressured, live project environments.

Benefits

* Competitive Salary
* Company Car or Allowance
* Bonus Scheme
* Pension
* Health Care
* & More

For more information please apply directly and we will be in touch with suitable candidates.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age
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Location:
Leeds
Salary:
£65,000 - £75,000 /annum plus car/allowance and package
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Construction

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