Location: UK Wide (Nationwide Travel Required)
We are recruiting an experienced Project Manager to support the longterm growth of our Production & Manufacturing (P&M) and Defence sectors, delivering large-scale, complex construction projects across the UK.
This role is suited to an established Project Manager from a Main Contracting background, with proven experience delivering major projects within live operational environments. As Project Manager, you will provide proactive leadership as the number one lead on the project, maintaining full control of all elements, including design coordination, programme and planning, health & safety, operational delivery, and subcontractor management.
You will have experience delivering projects within production and manufacturing environments, including delivery within safety-critical, highly regulated and secure environments, where safety, programme certainty and minimal operational disruption are critical. Experience working for a blue-chip contractor and on projects involving heavy civils and infrastructure interfaces is essential.
You will hold a relevant qualification in a construction-related subject and will demonstrate strong capability in managing cost and commercial performance on fast-track and complex schemes, often with a high degree of change during the contract period. Close collaboration with internal project teams is essential, alongside ensuring accuracy, quality and compliance with client and regulatory standards. You will take on-site commercial responsibility for contract performance, maximising turnover and profitability while maintaining robust commercial processes and effective change management.
Successful candidates will come from a Main Contracting background, with a minimum of 5 years’ hands-on project delivery experience and hold a full UK driving licence. A strong working knowledge of JCT contracts is essential, with NEC experience desirable but not essential. The role requires nationwide travel in line with project requirements.
Personal Attributes
The successful candidate will be a confident and credible leader with a calm, methodical approach, capable of managing senior client stakeholders through clear and effective communication. They will be highly organised, with excellent time and programme management skills, and commercially astute with a proactive approach to risk and change management. The role requires flexibility and comfort working nationwide and away from home as required, alongside resilience and adaptability gained through experience operating within pressured, live project environments.
Other information
Due to our multiple office bases across the UK, this role offers flexibility on location and can be based anywhere nationwide, aligned to project demands.
The successful candidates must:
Be flexible in terms of working hours
Be willing to work away from home if required
Hold a full UK driving licence
Be computer literate, be fully IT literate in MS Word and Excel (at an intermediate level)
Experience with Asta project planning software
Construction-related academic qualification
Hold a relevant CSCS card
SMSTS
First Aid at Work
Asbestos Awareness
Scaffold Inspection
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Valuing People at Morris & Spottiswood
Morris & Spottiswood is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
One of our core values is to ‘Value People’. We are passionate about investing in people and genuinely take care about what we do and how we do it. This ensures that the working environment, staff, suppliers and the communities we serve always remain at the front-of-mind.
Put simply, a diverse and inclusive workforce opens our business up to a much wider talent pool and greater innovation and creativity through teams with different experiences, backgrounds and education.