Project Manager

The Vacancy

We currently have vacancies for Project Managers to work across a variety of sectors and workstreams, including healthcare, education, commercial office fit out and retail fit out, delivering projects ranging from £2m – £15m in value. Experience of operating within these sectors is required for those applying for the role, and candidates are required to have demonstrable experience of new build, refurbishment and fit out schemes when applying for the role.

As a Project Manager, you will lead site teams to deliver projects safely and to a high quality standard, meeting social and environmental targets and working alongside commercial colleagues to ensure financial targets are achieved. You will possess the ability to identify project risk, be confident to escalate risks where appropriate and have the ability to effectively work through the issues, utilising resources at your disposal to ensure the risk is thoroughly understood and mitigated so as not to cause financial, programme or reputation damage to the business. For each project, you are responsible you will ensure that the customer expectations are clearly defined, understood and delivered upon.

This role is a national role which may involve working away from home.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car
• Travel covered to any of our sites (In line with HMRC guidelines)
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.