Senior Design & Construction Delivery Manager

Job Title: Senior Design & Construction Delivery Manager
Starting Salary: £53,806 progressing to £59,497 per annum per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 37.0
Location: Stevenage/Hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Resources

About the team

This role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced construction project manager to join a team responsible for managing complex construction projects across Hertfordshire. With extensive construction industry knowledge and project management expertise you will be able to lead outsourced multidisciplinary teams in the delivery of a wide range of construction projects on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council’s services including Children’s Services (Education, Special Educational Needs and Children Looked After), Adult Care, Community Protection, Libraries and Youth Services

You’ll work closely with key stakeholders to ensure that all design and construction management services are delivered through effective customer service and communication with all users of the service including members, service leads, and wider stakeholders. You will be a confident individual, capable of using your initiative to work effectively in some challenging and diverse situations. You will possess excellent leadership, contract management, and communication skills.

About the role

Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

• Developing construction project briefs & specifications, procuring and performance managing teams of external construction technical specialists & advisors.
• Monitor, control and report agreed budgets within defined areas, producing reports, reporting against financial risk and contributing to planning and forecasting to enable service delivery.

• Deliver construction, financial and risk advice to contribute to the creation of strategies to ensure the effective transition of projects from concept though to closure (RIBA stages 0-7) within the time, cost and quality parameters.
• Management of the procurement & delivery of complex construction projects from RIBA 0 to 7, which will include working with a range of stakeholders relating to legal, property estates, planning & development matters that need to be carefully resourced, managed and co-ordinated in order to meet strategic direction and critical timescales.
• Responsible for ensuring the Councils’ statutory and regulatory obligations and duties are discharged across all construction projects.
• Responsible for intervening and reacting to critical issues arising throughout the year in order to maintain the Council’s service provision, requiring programme scrutiny, realignment of priorities, redeployment of resources and communication with relevant Members, service leads, decision and governance boards

About you

Essential

• Educated to a degree level or equivalent experience, including extensive knowledge and expertise of construction delivery related project management and related technical, legal, health and safety requirements including duty holder’s responsibilities.
• Experience of commissioning and managing construction related external contractors and consultants and of developing large and complex briefs and specifications based on knowledge and expertise.
• Experience and technical knowledge of working with different forms of contracts including JCT, NEC and Local Authority bespoke framework agreements
• Experience of communicating and explaining complex, technical issues to a wide range of audience members, including elected members and internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of leading and managing specialist construction teams.

Desirable

• Understanding of the issues affecting the public sector, with experience of external best practice and an understanding of context and the politics present within the Council and with partners and providers.

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is within the Technical Services, level TEC13 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles: Technical services

Benefits of working for us

To hear more about this opportunity please contact:

Melanie Fyfe: melanie.fyfe@hertfordshire.gov.uk

for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: 16th and 18th September 2025

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Additional information

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Travel required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport to travel to other locations.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.