Hard FM Project Manager x 2

Location: Darrent Valley Hospital, Kent, DA2 8DA
Salary: £62,742 to £69,133 per annum, dependant on experience plus excellent benefits
Schedule: Full time, 24-month fixed term contract

Ready to impact a better future?
As a Hard FM Project Manager in our Darrent Valley Hospital team, you’ll lead the safe, compliant, and effective delivery of Hard FM projects from early scoping to commissioning and handover. Your work will directly support colleagues and customers, helping create safe, efficient environments where vital services can thrive.

You’ll shape projects that make a positive impact on communities and help us build a future where innovation and care sit at the heart of how we deliver Hard FM solutions.

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

• Manage multiple Hard FM projects and small programmes, ensuring delivery within agreed budgets and timescales.
• Develop service user briefs, feasibility reports, business cases, and project initiation documents.
• Produce project plans, specifications, tender documentation and work schedules, using digital tools where required.
• Co‑ordinate architects, consultants, engineers, ICT specialists and other professionals to ensure timelines, budgets, quality standards and compliance requirements are met.
• Ensure all projects align with CDM2015 legislation and RIBA Plan of Work, and follow relevant Serco governance and approval processes.
• Oversee contractor documentation, RAMS, qualifications and compliance checks, ensuring safe working practices at all times.
• Manage stakeholder relationships including clinical and non‑clinical colleagues, contractors and customer teams.
• Support commissioning, handover and post‑contract activities, ensuring full acceptance by user departments and internal support teams.
• Prepare progress reports, contribute to capital programming activity, and engage with project and programme boards.
• Work collaboratively with Serco colleagues across Fire, Energy, ICT, Procurement, Health and Safety and more, resolving issues to maintain project momentum.

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

• Experience delivering Hard FM projects, including financial and contract management responsibilities.
• A relevant qualification or equivalent experience, with continued professional development.
• Working knowledge of CDM2015, statutory and non‑statutory compliance, and Hard FM processes.
• Strong communication, planning and organisational skills with the ability to collaborate across diverse teams.
• Experience using CAFM (Computer‑Aided Facilities Management) systems and Microsoft tools.

Vetting and checks:
A Standard DBS check will be carried out for this position. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, reprimands, and warnings as permitted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. An Occupational Health Questionnaire will also be completed so we can ensure you have the necessary support to perform your duties.

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: Up to 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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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.
 

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