Senior Project Manager
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £60,375 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2025 |
| Location: | Chatham, ME4 4LL |
| Company: | MHS Homes |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 48 |
Summary
Job Advert
About the Job
You'll manage a team of project managers delivering Planned Maintenance and Improvement Works to our properties. There's a focus
on external repairs and the following works:
• Painting works
• Window, door and roofline
• Pitched and flat roof
• Boundary/retaining wall
• Resurfacing
• Energy measures
You will have oversight of all contracts within the Planned Investment function, ensuring that programmes delivered by your team
are to appropriate legislative, compliance and quality standards. Additionally, you'll have contract administration duties
including specification preparation, undertaking surveys and inspections to our stock to assist in future planning of the planned
maintenance and improvement programmes. Your role and scope of works will be influenced by the needs of the Investment team, a key
part of the wider Asset Management Team. A DBS check is required for this role.
You'll need;
• A construction related Degree or 5 years’ experience gained delivering a similar role
• Detailed contract knowledge and practice
• Ability to manage and motivate a team
• Budget control and oversight on team finance and delivery against target
• Ability to review information in detail, analyse and report concisely
• Excellent technical knowledge in planned works
• An understanding of matters affecting planned projects including Section 20 and Building Regulations
• The ability to support the team and provide guidance and advise on planned works issues, procedures, and contract administration
• Excellent customer focus
• Effectively lead, manage, and motivate to ensure that there is a culture of collaborative working to achieve the corporate goal
of mhs
• Knowledge of Building / Construction techniques
• Able to specify and design Planned Work Projects across mhs homes stock
• Able to prepare specifications for Planned Work Projects for tendering
• Working effectively with colleagues across the business
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
• Experience with asset management software (e.g., Keystone)
Join mhs and contribute to making a meaningful impact on the lives of young people in our community.
At mhs homes we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of
opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. We positively encourage 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.
We’re a Disability Confident employer. This means if you tell us you have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the
job, we’ll offer you an interview. We can be flexible when assessing people so everyone has the best opportunity to demonstrate
they can do the job.
Instructions for potential applicants: Please note we're using an anonymised recruitment process for this role. This means the
shortlisting panel will only see personal details or CVs if you're shortlisted for interview. Therefore, shortlisting will be done
based on your application and supporting statement. Please complete all sections fully and refer to the role profile when telling
us about your skills and experience.
About the Job
You'll manage a team of project managers delivering Planned Maintenance and Improvement Works to our properties. There's a focus
on external repairs and the following works:
• Painting works
• Window, door and roofline
• Pitched and flat roof
• Boundary/retaining wall
• Resurfacing
• Energy measures
You will have oversight of all contracts within the Planned Investment function, ensuring that programmes delivered by your team
are to appropriate legislative, compliance and quality standards. Additionally, you'll have contract administration duties
including specification preparation, undertaking surveys and inspections to our stock to assist in future planning of the planned
maintenance and improvement programmes. Your role and scope of works will be influenced by the needs of the Investment team, a key
part of the wider Asset Management Team. A DBS check is required for this role.
You'll need;
• A construction related Degree or 5 years’ experience gained delivering a similar role
• Detailed contract knowledge and practice
• Ability to manage and motivate a team
• Budget control and oversight on team finance and delivery against target
• Ability to review information in detail, analyse and report concisely
• Excellent technical knowledge in planned works
• An understanding of matters affecting planned projects including Section 20 and Building Regulations
• The ability to support the team and provide guidance and advise on planned works issues, procedures, and contract administration
• Excellent customer focus
• Effectively lead, manage, and motivate to ensure that there is a culture of collaborative working to achieve the corporate goal
of mhs
• Knowledge of Building / Construction techniques
• Able to specify and design Planned Work Projects across mhs homes stock
• Able to prepare specifications for Planned Work Projects for tendering
• Working effectively with colleagues across the business
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to work under pressure
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office
• Experience with asset management software (e.g., Keystone)
Join mhs and contribute to making a meaningful impact on the lives of young people in our community.
At mhs homes we value equality, diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of
opportunity, both as an employer and as a provider of services. We positively encourage 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.
We’re a Disability Confident employer. This means if you tell us you have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the
job, we’ll offer you an interview. We can be flexible when assessing people so everyone has the best opportunity to demonstrate
they can do the job.
Instructions for potential applicants: Please note we're using an anonymised recruitment process for this role. This means the
shortlisting panel will only see personal details or CVs if you're shortlisted for interview. Therefore, shortlisting will be done
based on your application and supporting statement. Please complete all sections fully and refer to the role profile when telling
us about your skills and experience.
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.