Project Manager

  • Skilled Careers
  • Bletchley, Buckinghamshire
  • Sep 14, 2025
Full time Construction

Job Description

Project Manager Landmark Mixed-Use Redevelopment Milton Keynes

Our client is seeking an experienced Project Manager (No.1 Project Lead) to take the helm on a landmark redevelopment scheme in the Milton Keynes . This £multi-million development will see the redevelopment, including demolition and delivery of a 20-storey mixed-use scheme comprising:

  • Up to 355 residential units

  • Flexible ground and upper ground floor space for retail, restaurant/café, and office/co-working/workspace

  • High-quality amenity, landscaping, car and cycle parking, and associated infrastructure and access works.

The Role

We are looking for a seasoned Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering complex, large-scale residential-led mixed-use schemes. As the No.1 on site, you will take full ownership of project delivery, reporting directly to the client s Director.

You will:

  • Lead the project from site establishment through to completion.

  • Oversee consultants (with support from the client s Technical Team), ensuring design keeps pace with contractor and procurement needs.

  • Manage governance and compliance in line with BSR Golden Thread obligations.

  • Drive programme, quality, cost, and health & safety performance.

  • Be supported by Site Managers and a Project QS.

  • Represent the client with authority, professionalism, and leadership throughout the scheme.

About You

  • A dynamic, hands-on leader who is equally comfortable rolling up sleeves or steering the full delivery programme.

  • Strong communicator with the authority to command respect and the professional demeanour to represent the client.

  • Proven experience managing schemes of comparable scale, complexity, and value.

  • Familiar with online document management systems (the client uses ACC, but experience with similar systems is sufficient).

  • Confident in managing multiple stakeholders, from consultants to subcontractors, while driving project success.

  • Able to operate with autonomy, while knowing when to draw on team support.

Why Apply

  • Lead one of the Midlands most significant redevelopment schemes.

  • Work with a supportive leadership team, while enjoying the autonomy of being the project lead.

  • Opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping the client s growing reputation in the region.