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Senior Project Manager


Company : ZipRecruiter


Location : Northampton, England


Created : 2025-06-21


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Job Description What are we looking to recruit? We're seeking Senior Project Managers to join our Kier Strategic Projects Business to work on high-value, complex schemes in the Healthcare & Science sector. At Kier, our Strategic Project business delivers high-value schemes across sectors including Defence, Custodial, Health & Commercial. Location : Eastern and Northern Home Counties. Hours : Full-Time Permanent. *We are flexible on location as the project could be anywhere across the Northern Home and Eastern Counties. What will you be responsible for? As a Senior Project Manager, you will likely lead a dedicated area of a major project valued between £500m-£1bn. Your day-to-day responsibilities include: Managing design and construction activities to ensure safe, on-time, on-budget, and high-quality delivery that meets stakeholder expectations. Promoting a strong SHE culture, ensuring all work is planned and executed safely, in line with Kier policies, best practices, and statutory regulations. Implementing and managing the project quality strategy, ensuring compliance with specifications, mitigating risks, maintaining records, and promoting high standards in line with Kier's Quality Management policies. Planning, managing, and monitoring subcontractor and supplier performance to ensure competence, compliance, and effective collaboration to meet project and contractual requirements. Implementing and managing the project delivery strategy. Working closely with the commercial team to understand project finances. What are we looking for? In a Senior Project Manager, we seek: Experience in construction project delivery as a Project Manager or Project Director. Experience in the Major Project, Health, or Science sectors is advantageous. Experience with large public sector clients is also desirable. Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills. The ability to motivate and lead a team. We value potential at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! Even if you don't meet every requirement, please apply, and we can discuss further. Rewards and benefits We offer a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. More information on benefits can be foundhere . Our commitment to diversity and inclusion Making Kier a diverse and inclusive workplace is a priority. We are proud of our progress and continually strive to do more. Our employees help shape our policies through their experiences. Learn more about ourD&I action plan . As a confident employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria will be offered an interview. We look forward to your application. #joinkier #LI-AS2#J-18808-Ljbffr