Senior Contracts & Facilities Project Manager

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join the Facilities Team, which is within the Scientific Facilities and Performance group.

The Facilities Team is responsible for engineering, maintenance, environmental sustainability, facilities and capital works projects to the Chilton site to maintain safe, regulatory and compliant facilities to meet current and future business objectives.

The department's function manages and controls a team of staff, both in-house and contracted to assure governance in the supply of engineering maintenance to fixed plant and equipment, building maintenance and engineering modifications to uphold the asset value of UKHSA's Chilton estate, and facilities services to meet the Facilities Team's business plan and the wider organisational needs. The Facilities Team engages with stakeholders over current and future facilities, engineering and equipment maintenance requirements to ensure the site is safe, compliant, operational and fully available to meet business needs., As Senior Project Manager you will support the Capital Works Programme Manager in delivering Chilton's Capital Programme working closely with the site's business units and will be responsible for the delivery of capital projects up to an approximate value of £5m in accordance with UKHSA's Project Management Procedures Manual and cover all stages of Government Procurement Strategy.

You will lead on the day to day running of a project(s) that are typically moderate to high in complexity. These are likely to influence the UKHSA long term outcomes, goals or in year strategic objectives.

You will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of the project, ensuring that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. You will have effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills and will play a key role in project governance, working with stakeholders to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefit realisation.

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.