Lead Pre-Construction Project Manager

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We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a Permanent Lead Pre-Construction Project Manager offering remote working with Travel across Central England and North West.

HOURS OF WORK: 37.5 Per week, Monday to Friday

Join our vibrant, inclusive community in Complex Facilities working on the Defence Housing Estate that make a real positive impact across the UK.

This role leads the Pre-Construction Project Management team in developing high-quality project packages for estate improvement works. The postholder will provide leadership, technical assurance, and programme oversight to ensure packages are consistent, robust, client-focused, and delivered in line with programme priorities, organisational standards, statutory requirements, and project governance. The role also includes responsibility for managing a personal portfolio of pre-construction packages.

What you will do:

• Lead and support a team of Pre-Construction Project Managers, providing day-to-day leadership, technical guidance, mentoring, and performance oversight.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee the delivery of Pre-Construction packages across multiple estate improvement projects within MOD Service Family Accommodation.
• Develop project briefs through the design scope and specification stages in accordance with RIBA Stages 0–4.
• Motivate the team and drive performance, providing regular updates to the Principal Pre-Construction Project Manager and Senior Programme Manager to support master programmes and maintain project momentum.
• Translate survey findings into clear, accurate, and deliverable scopes of work, outline specifications, and project recommendations.
• Appoint and manage specialist consultants undertaking supporting surveys, specialist design, structural reports, and other technical inputs as required.
• Manage and report on the packaging programme to support wider project delivery objectives, programme milestones, and business priorities.
• Ensure packages are completed in a professional, consistent, and high-quality format in line with organisational standards, client requirements, and statutory obligations.
• Review packages for accuracy, completeness, technical robustness, and compliance before issue.
• Provide technical input during early project stages, identifying risks, constraints, and opportunities to support informed decision-making.
• Liaise with internal teams, consultants, contractors, and clients to ensure the client brief is fully understood and effectively delivered.
• Lead the continuous improvement of pre-construction processes, standards, templates, and working methods across the team.
• Monitor the competence and continuing professional development of Pre-Construction Project Managers, identifying training and development needs where required.
• Ensure compliance with relevant health and safety requirements, project governance procedures, and applicable statutory and technical standards.
• Oversee the allocation of packaging resources and workloads to ensure programmes are delivered efficiently and to agreed timescales.
• Mentor and support graduates and junior team members in relation to all matters within pre-construction, specification writing, and best practice.
• Monitor project risks, assumptions, and dependencies arising from pre-construction activity, escalating issues, and recommending mitigation where appropriate.
• Contribute to budget planning and cost certainty by ensuring packaging information is sufficiently detailed to support estimating, planning, and procurement activities.
• Represent the packaging function in project meetings, progress reviews, and stakeholder discussions, ensuring technical matters are communicated clearly and effectively.
• Lead, coordinate, and review technical reviews undertaken by Project Managers across live works packages, ensuring findings are reported to relevant stakeholders and actions are tracked to completion.
• Act as deputy to the Pre
  -Construction Lead during periods of absence or annual leave , representing the Pre
  -Construction team as required .
• Conduct six Employee Engagement Visits per year , approximately one every two months , and record outcomes in EoL in accordance with organisational requirements

What you will bring:

• Accredited degree in construction or equivalent relevant qualification.
• Membership of a relevant professional body, such as RICS/MCIOB, or working towards membership.
• Demonstrable experience in project management, building fabric, and preparation of scopes of work and specifications.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to manage multiple projects and tasks at any one time.
• Strong IT skills, including the ability to use relevant project, reporting, and document management systems.
• Ability to work autonomously and act proactively.
• Experience of leading, mentoring, or supporting Project Managers and junior team members within a project or programme environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of building regulations,…