Construction Project Manager

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Required skills, qualifications and experience

• In depth knowledge of the Construction Industry, procedures and material and project management principles
• Ability to read and understand Construction drawings and the activities to implement them
• Familiarity with quality and health and safety standards
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft office suite
• Good working knowledge of project management software
• Outstanding communication skills, written and verbal
• A Project management certification is desirable
• Worked within a high security environment is desirable
• Must have the ability obtain and hold a DV clearance

Business Environment

Lockheed Martin (UK) Ampthill is a rapidly changing, dynamic part of the Lockheed Martin Corporation with both domestic and international customers. It consists of business areas focusing on Platform Integration, Ground Based Air Defence, Special Projects and Weapons, which provide a variety of products and services to the Ministry of Defence and other customers. We are looking for talented individuals to join the company, in return we offer an exciting and challenging career path and excellent work/life balance with a 4 day week (Mon-Thurs) and flexible working arrangements.

About the Role

The Facilities department at LMUK Ampthill is hiring a motivated Construction Project Manager to manage a new industrial construction project at the site at Ampthill, Bedfordshire. The successful candidate will work within the Facilities project team and act as the primary contact to the consultant and contractor to ensure the project is delivered to the high standards and times scale provided. We are looking for a collaborative and knowledgeable individual to work client side to effectively manage the flow of information and the project budget, timescale, and any variations in scope.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Engage and collaborate with all stakeholders for the project
• Manage and administrate the contractor, consultant client meetings
• Ensuring each stage of the project happens on time, on budget and to a high standard
• Records, monitors, and reports progress regularly to the wider facilities team and LMUK Ampthill Project team
• Checks the construction activities meet the accepted brief
• Review, challenge and or accept contractor invoices based on work completed
• Deal with any unexpected problems that may occur during the project or escalates to wider team

What we offer you

At Lockheed Martin our employees come first and therefore your physical, mental and financial wellbeing matters to us. On top of working in a highly supportive, friendly, respectful environment you can expect so much more.
We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off. We offer Competitive salaries alongside a flexible holiday entitlement.
We have a Wealth of benefits available to you that can be selected through our wellbeing tool upon commencement of employment. Just a few of our amazing benefits are shown below:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Competitive Pension
• Dental
• Critical Illness
• Life Assurance
• Travel Insurance
• Employee discounts for top high street shops
• Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counseling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc
• Internal training and development alongside our Education assistance programmes
• Reimbursement for a professional membership
• Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave