Summary: The Interim Senior Project Manager (Construction) is tasked with leading the planning and delivery of large-scale, high-risk construction projects. This role requires effective management of project timelines, budgets, and resources while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. The position demands strong leadership and collaboration skills to guide internal teams and external contractors towards successful project outcomes. The assignment is for a duration of three months, with a hybrid working arrangement requiring regular on-site attendance in Bristol.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning and delivery of construction projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the desired outcomes using appropriate project management methodologies.
• Develop and maintain detailed construction project plans, managing complex internal and external dependencies, and using the plan to drive, monitor, and report on progress, timelines, resources, and costs.
• Identify required skills and resources for successful project delivery, build strong internal teams, and collaborate with specialists to procure or commission external support as needed.
• Provide leadership and direction to the project team, ensuring successful delivery through ongoing supervision, support, and guidance.
• Proactively manage construction project risks by conducting effective risk analysis, implementing mitigation strategies, and preparing contingency plans.
• Oversee the project budget in line with the council’s financial procedures, accurately forecasting expenditures and managing any variances.
• Work closely with internal teams and external contractors to ensure resource allocation is aligned with project goals, ensuring smooth and efficient project execution.

Key Skills:

• Advanced knowledge & practical, creative application of a range of recognised project methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2/MSP/Agile) and other programme & project management principles, methods, techniques & tools.
• Detailed understanding of the laws, regulations and standards associated with the development and delivery of construction projects, including the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations (CDM 2015).
• Experience of developing complex proposals and business cases that shape strategic objectives into deliverable projects and which gain approval to proceed.
• Experience in construction procurement, contract- and supplier management to ensure that the right suppliers are sourced and that they deliver to their contractual commitments.
• The ability to plan projects with complex, intra- and inter-organisational dependencies and multiple organisations partnering the delivery – then to actively use these plans in the successful delivery of projects.

Salary (Rate): £410.06

City: Bristol

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: Project Management