Kier Group
Project Director
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Project Director - Construction
Location: Eastern Region
Hours: Full time, permanent
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About the Role
As a Project Director, you'll lead major construction projects valued over £100m, working within our dynamic Construction team to deliver exceptional results for our clients. This is an opportunity to shape the design and construction process whilst maximising your team's potential to deliver projects safely and commercially. You'll play a vital role in maintaining the Kier brand, ensuring clients, users, and local communities are delighted with their projects.
Responsibilities
- Education: Working within the Construction team, supporting them in delivering major regional projects across education, health, defence, and other key sectors.
- Leading the safety, health and environmental culture across all project works, ensuring compliance with regulations and Kier's standards.
- Developing and delivering clear project execution plans with practical performance measures to meet project objectives.
- Managing design consultants and trade contractors to ensure timely delivery within budget and programme timescales.
- Overseeing commercial performance including finances, revenue, costs and cashflow to maximise profitability.
- Leading and developing your project team, undertaking line management responsibilities and creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can excel.
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What We're Looking For
This role of Project Director is great for you if:
- You hold a Degree or HND in Construction and are professionally qualified or working towards professional qualification.
- You have a proven track record of successfully delivering major projects of a similar scale.
- You possess excellent management and communication skills with the ability to proactively lead diverse teams.
- You have strong commercial awareness with knowledge of contract conditions and construction law.
- You're an emotionally intelligent, collaborative leader who can navigate complex stakeholder relationships and inspire teams to continuously improve.
Rewards and Benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
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Diversity and Inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
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