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How You’ll Make a Difference
As a Principal Project Manager, you will be responsible for the management and successful delivery of specified major capital construction projects, providing client‑side project management services throughout the relevant RIBA stages, managing teams of professional construction consultants and contractors. Taking the lead in managing key projects for the property and business support service, you will work with colleagues from across the authority and with external partners and stakeholders to ensure the projects are delivered effectively and on schedule by achieving key objectives and providing value for money.
What You Will Be Doing
* Manage the successful delivery of specified capital projects, including procurement and management of contracts for contractors and consultants, ensuring works and services are tendered in accordance with financial regulations and standing orders.
* Prepare and regularly update programmes, risk management registers and overall project cost reports, ensuring cost plans are prepared at appropriate gateways and oversee the legal transfer of assets and input to development agreements.
* Prepare tender reports and appraisals for director approval, implement a change management strategy to monitor and control time, cost and quality, and attend project meetings and public engagement meetings.
* Develop innovative solutions to technical issues, ensuring they are appropriate, successfully implemented and consult on issues with wider implications, while adhering to service regulations and codes of practice.
* Provide technical advice, support and training to colleagues, ensuring performance objectives are achieved, teamwork is effective, colleagues are supported and the team is technically capable.
What We Need From You
* Hold a construction‑related degree or equivalent qualification and significant relevant experience in project management on large‑scale capital projects.
* Proven experience in leading multiple major projects without supervision, delivering contracts, guidance and statutes, and the ability to develop and deliver design briefs.
* Experience planning and progressing work activities within general professional guidelines or organisational policy and deep knowledge of service‑specific and professional issues.
* Knowledge and experience of working with performance‑management and project‑improvement tools, with the ability to work to strict deadlines, manage a demanding workload and prioritise accordingly.
* Excellent strategic awareness, experience of working in a political environment and ability to communicate and influence effectively with clients, consultants and contractors.
What You Need To Know
* There are two permanent full‑time posts available.
* This is a hybrid role, meaning you can work remotely or in our offices.
Interviews will be held during the week of the 12th January 2026.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
* What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
* A part of our benefits package includes generous annual leave, employee wellbeing support and access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
* We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
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