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Senior Project Manager

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Mitie
a month ago
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Tax-Efficient Income | Accommodation & Meals Provided | Free Gym | Return Flights | Professional Development | Unique Lifestyle

Imagine waking up to ocean views, working on projects that matter, and ending your day with a swim under South Atlantic skies. Having ability to spend your free time watching sea turtles nesting, swimming in one of the three pools on the island or just lying on the beach. This is more than a job, it's a career defining opportunity in one of the world's most remote British territories in Ascension Island.

You will gain experience in a high profile, operational setting and experience life in a unique location few ever see.

What You'll Get
  • Tax-Efficient Income: simplified income tax structure.
  • Free Accommodation & Meals : save thousands with zero housing costs (unaccompanied position).
  • Return Flights to the UK Twice a Year: stay connected with home.
  • 40 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays: plenty of time to recharge.
  • Free Gym & Swimming Pool Access: crossFit, yoga, spin, squash, and more.
  • Free Healthcare and Prescriptions : You and your health matter.
  • Professional Development Courses: business, science, arts, languages.
  • 5% Site Allowance (Monthly) and 10% Tour Bonus (Annually).
  • Onboarding and Support: experienced teams to help you settle in.
  • Career Defining Experience: supporting UK Defence operations.
  • Unique Lifestyle: an opportunity to live & work in one of the world's most remote British territories.
  • 24 months fixed-term contract

As a Senior Project Manager you will lead the profitable delivery of customer projects, ensuring all works are delivered safely, to the required quality standards, on time and within budget

Key Responsibilities
  • Deliver all projects in line with financial targets and budget expectations
  • Manage work in progress (WIP) and ensure timely and accurate invoicing
  • Follow established project processes and procedures at all times
  • Provide leadership, support and guidance to Project Managers
  • Identify and pursue new project opportunities with existing clients and third parties
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams, clients and external stakeholders, including procurement
  • Manage subcontractors to ensure safe, compliant and efficient delivery
  • Oversee full project lifecycle from scope development through to practical completion
  • Coordinate with client representatives and Contract Managers to ensure delivery within agreed timescales
  • Collaborate with Commercial teams on planning, pricing and delivery
  • Complete site safety documentation including risk assessments, method statements and inspections in line with company procedures
  • Ensure compliance with all commercial processes and documentation requirements
  • Maintain accurate and timely project records and reporting
  • Adhere to all company policies, including Health and Safety standards
  • Participate in relevant training, development and appraisal activities
  • Support wider team and business needs as required

What We Are Looking For
  • Proven experience as a Senior Project Manager with a strong delivery track record
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience in construction, mechanical and electrical project management
  • Minimum of 5 years' experience within contract or facilities management
  • Relevant professional qualifications desirable
  • Strong client and customer focus with the ability to build lasting relationships
  • Demonstrated experience of performance management and team leadership
  • Ability to coordinate and oversee multi-disciplinary project delivery
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Evidence of delivering projects successfully against time, cost and quality targets
  • Commercially aware with a structured and process-driven approach
  • Flexible and able to support out-of-hours requirements where needed

Why Join Us
You will play a key role in delivering complex, high-value projects while shaping best practice across delivery teams. This is an opportunity to influence outcomes, drive performance and build strong client partnerships.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we'll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days' holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there's a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie's 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK's leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

Join our Mitie Team.

Together our diversity makes us stronger.
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JOB SUMMARY
Senior Project Manager
Mitie
Ascension
a month ago
N/A
Full-time

Job post no longer accepts applications
Senior Project Manager

Job post no longer accepts applications