Project Manager in Redruth, United Kingdom

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ROLE: Project Manager

HOURS: Full Time

LOCATION: Treleigh Industrial Estate, Redruth, Cornwall, England, TR16 4AX

At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of projects across our Cornwall Schools contract, supporting the maintenance, improvement and refurbishment of educational facilities while ensuring minimal disruption to teaching and learning environments.

Role Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects across school sites from inception through to completion, ensuring delivery on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards.
• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, budgets and resource requirements, whilst monitoring project performance and implementing corrective actions where required.
• Build strong relationships with school leadership teams, local authority representatives, client stakeholders and internal teams, acting as the primary point of contact throughout project lifecycles.
• Coordinate internal engineering teams and specialist subcontractors, ensuring compliance with Mitie standards, safeguarding requirements and statutory regulations.
• Conduct inspections, quality audits, risk assessments and project handovers while promoting a strong health and safety culture and driving continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

Applicants must meet the below defined requirements for the role.

• Proven experience managing projects within facilities management, construction, engineering or building maintenance environments.
• Strong understanding of project planning, budgeting, risk management and stakeholder coordination.
• Excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, CDM regulations and safe systems of work.
• PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMP or equivalent project management qualification is desirable, along with experience within educational environments, FM or public sector contracts.

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity to lead varied and meaningful projects across a large educational estate, helping to improve facilities for schools and local communities.
• Work within a supportive and collaborative team environment with opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• Exposure to a diverse portfolio of projects including refurbishments, mechanical and electrical improvements, sustainability initiatives and statutory compliance works.
• Be part of an organisation committed to safety, quality, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Competitive salary and benefits package, together with the opportunity to make a tangible impact across the Cornwall Schools contract.

Mitie is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.

If you are working in regulated activity please note that you are subject to the following:

• It is a criminal offence for people who are barred from working regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with that particular group (i.e. vulnerable adults, children or both).
• This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and Mitie is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children or vulnerable adults.

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 Pankaj Chaudhary at ***email_hidden***.

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.

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