University of Leicester - Project Manager

Qualifications, knowledge and experience Essential – Professionally qualified within a Built Environment discipline.

Skills, abilities and competencies Essential

– High level planning and organisation skills.*

– Solid stakeholder engagement ability.*

– Strong commercial awareness, in particular associated with delivering construction projects.*

– Chartered status (RICS/MCIOB/RIBA/APM).*

– Substantial experience in a similar or related roles.*

– Strong negotiating skills and political awareness.*

– Thorough understanding of the construction process, project development throughout the life cycle and project procedures.* – Experience of managing projects of various sizes, up to £5m.* – Experience of managing principal contractors and external consultant service providers.* – Experience of stakeholder engagement within similar large organisation. Desirable – Experience of delivering construction projects within the Higher Education sector. – Experience of delivering projects with a Mechanical and Electrical bias.

– Experience of managing large project teams.*

– Experience of contract administration (JCT, NEC).*

– High level of attention to detail.

– Strong written and oral communication skills.

– Self-motivated and tenacious, able to manage their own workload and achieve results. Desirable – IT literate in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project Planning/Programming software (MSP, Asta).* – Experience of various forms of construction works contracts (JCT, NEC etc).* *Criteria to be used in shortlisting candidates for interview

– Business Case / Investment Appraisal development.

– Health and Safety qualification.

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