Senior Capital Project Manager

Job description

Job responsibilities

Programme Management

1. Ensure project scopes are clearly defined and agreed. Work with wider project team to deliver the project scope within agreed time, cost and quality parameters, continually monitor and ensure robust and accurate reporting against these,
2. Develop options appraisals from highly complex facts and information
3. Lead multi-discipline teams to deliver best-fit solutions and manage conflicting requirements to negotiate successful outcomes,
4. Ensure that expectations are managed through design and construction,
5. Communication and reporting within projects, administering a range of common construction contracts, monitoring health and safety cross-site and ensuring that all correct procedures are followed,

Technical

1. Possess and maintain a good working knowledge of technical guidance and best-practice, including understanding of common forms of construction Contracts (Eg JCT, NEC)
2. Oversee technical commissioning of the project, ensuring that adequate time is allowed, that results are robust, satisfactory and stand-up to scrutiny,
3. Ensure that all necessary independent advisors are consulted and that validations are successfully completed.

Relationship Management

1. Communicate and negotiate effectively with key stakeholders including cross-directorate leads, external approvers and professional advisors to:
   1. Achieve necessary approvals,
   2. Manage expectations,
   3. Report on progress, risks, issues, processes and procedures,
   4. Responding to both positive and negative feedback, demonstrating consideration of comments.
2. Manage appointed project teams consisting of internal project management resource and external specialist advisors
3. Ensure engagement of all stakeholders, including authorising engineers and operational estates colleagues,
4. Manage conflicting requirements in order to deliver a functional solution which meets the project objectives,

Leadership

1. Manage and support all accountable members of the project team
2. Establish project teams to ensure the right membership in delivering a breadth of project requirements,
3. Undertake appraisals to include personal development, advice, mentoring and support to subordinate team members including day-to-day administration of staff, sickness and performance management, grievances and disciplinary issues,
4. Share knowledge, market knowledge and lessons learned with colleagues to help others achieve successful outcomes;

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional building or engineering qualification (MCIOB, RICS, APM, RIBA, CIBSE, IHEEM, MIMechE, MIEE) or appropriate Masters level or relevant working experience equivalent to the above.
• In depth knowledge of the Capital processes and documentation.

Desirable

• Project Management Qualification (e.g. PRINCE2)

Experience

Essential

• Working experience of a senior project manager role for at least 5 years.
• Experience of successfully managing and delivering multi-faceted, complex major capital projects
• In-depth understanding of Statutory Legislation and NHS Standards and understanding of common forms of Construction Contract (e.g JCT, NEC3).
• Possess an understanding of clinical services, health service design guidance, health service procurement guidance as well as private sector guidance and regulatory standards.
• Budgetary management of projects and programmes of capital investment including forecasting and financial management of multi-million pound contracts.

Desirable

• NHS Capital Construction Management experience in an acute setting.

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

• Ability to provide and receive highly complex information at all levels within the Trust and with external stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to unpredictable work patterns. Ability to communicate effectively in writing, including formal report writing.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

• Ability to analyse, interpret highly complex facts, situations and events including confidential financial and commercial data.
• As an expert in the field be able to provide judgment on situations or information when this information may differ from experts.

Planning & Organising Skills

Essential

• Ability to manage and deliver complex competing demands and deadlines in a pressured environment.
• Ability to develop and formulate strategic plans and programmes and resource requirements, and communicate effectively the impact of these on the organisation.
• Ability to motivate and organise others.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Address

University Hospitals of Leicester - 3 Sites

Leicester

LE1 5WW

Employer's website

https://www.jobsatleicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)