Senior Project Manager

Location: Labert, FK5 4WR
Salary: £60,000 – £65,000 per annum, dependant on experience, plus excellent benefits
Schedule: Full time, permanent

Ready to impact a better future?
As a Senior Project Manager in our Hard FM Projects team, you’ll lead the planning and delivery of a wide range of projects that support essential public services and create better outcomes for patients, colleagues, and the wider community.

You’ll take ownership of delivering a full programme of Hard FM projects, guiding them from concept through design, approval and delivery, ensuring they are safe, compliant, and aligned with the needs of the people they serve. Your work will help shape and maintain the environments that enable high‑quality healthcare for the future.

What you’ll do as a Senior Project Manager
You’ll be entrusted to:

• Lead the planning, prioritisation, and delivery of all Hard FM projects and programmes in line with CDM2015 legislation and Serco methodologies aligned with the RIBA Plan of Work.
• Oversee a varied portfolio of project types including Minor New Works, asset lifecycle projects, and capital variations.
• Manage interdependencies across the full programme, ensuring effective resource allocation, robust governance, and on-time delivery.
• Produce high‑quality documentation and reporting for senior leadership, board meetings, and customer forums.
• Build strong and effective relationships with customers and stakeholders, ensuring their needs and insights shape decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide expert challenge, guidance, and support to Project Managers, promoting high standards of delivery and continuous improvement.
• Lead, mentor, and develop the project team, supporting performance, capability, and engagement across the group.

Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…

• A relevant degree, Hard FM qualifications and/or significant experience delivering complex construction or technical projects.
• Professional project management credentials such as Prince2 and evidence of ongoing CPD.
• A strong track record of delivering large, complex projects involving technical and business change.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills, with the confidence to influence at senior levels.
• Experience of programme governance, risk management, budgeting, and performance monitoring within a multi‑project environment.

Vetting and checks:
This role requires membership of the PVG Scheme, which involves a detailed check of spent and unspent convictions and other relevant information to ensure safeguarding compliance. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire so we can provide any necessary support to help you carry out your responsibilities.

Discover all you need to keep growing
We’re one of the top 1% of international employers, so you can have confidence you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.

What we offer

• Holidays: 25 days plus bank holidays
• Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
• Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
• Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
• Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
• Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. 

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.