Construction Project Manager

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Job Reference Ref/149525/9652

Apply for this job Number of Positions: 1 Contract Type: Temporary Contract Details: 2 Year Fixed Term Salary Range : £49817 - £53051 Working Hours: 37 Location: Haylock House, Kettering Parkway, Venture Park Kettering Closing Date: 06/12/2026 Job Category: Project Management Organisation: North Northamptonshire Council

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Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

 

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

North Northamptonshire is currently on an exciting journey to transform its buildings and infrastructure and as part of this, we are looking for a Construction Project Manager to join our Capital Projects team. 

You will be responsible for the delivery of a suite of capital construction projects or a programme of works that range from £25k to £25M. The role  will require the development of project briefs working with  a variety of internal/external stakeholders - funders, services and end users which would then be taken through to design, specification, delivery and finally completion.

You will lead construction projects either directly delivering smaller construction projects procuring and managing contractors or managing external consultant design teams and contractor / developer delivery teams for larger projects.   These projects will be based across North Northamptonshire and will need you to attend site meetings or meetings in the office on average 2 days a week. 

The roles involves working on multiple of projects at one time to deliver construction projects across the council for  education, children’s services, leisure, assets and communities.  

 If you would like more information about this role or are interested in applying, please contact Victoria Phillipson, Head of Capital Projects [email removed] 

What will you be doing?

Construction Project Management – either directly delivering projects or manging the delivery of projects from brief through design and through to delivery.

Developing Project Briefs - understand and interpret the councils vision for its strategic estate and in particular in the education, children’s services, leisure, communities and  service areas  to work together with them to develop project briefs/scope

Stakeholder Management - develop effective relationships with stakeholders and partners both internal and external to the council. 

Risk & Issue Management – develop, manage and monitor the project risk and issues register ensuring that the risks are costed and mitigated to the lowest possible level that the council  can accept.

Finance – cost planning, developing business cases, responsibility and accountability for managing the project budget maximising value for money including value engineering.

Procurement – Identifying, procuring and awarding contracts for the required  professional services, surveys, other specialists, design teams and contractors. 

Leadership – Motivating and managing proje