Job Title: Principal Design & Construction Manager Starting Salary: £59,537 progressing to £66,642 pa Hours: 37 Location: Based in Stevenage with travel across the county Contract Type: Permanent Directorate: Resources About the team This role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced leader with extensive construction industry knowledge and expertise to manage a team delivering complex construction projects & programmes on behalf of Hertfordshire County Council's services including Children's Services (Education, SEND and Children Looked After), Adult Care, Community Protection, Libraries and Youth Services You'll work closely with key stakeholders to ensure that all construction management services are delivered through effective communication and customer relationships 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, performance management and communication skills. About the role You will: Provide management and support to a team of construction technical specialists. Monitor, control and report agreed budgets within defined areas, producing reports, reporting against financial risk and contributing to planning, forecasting and performance management 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. Develop and implement strategic direction and time critical outcomes for projects within your remit. Develop several sustainability driven workstreams in order to support the organisational ambitions for Carbon Neutrality and Net Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Management of complex programmes which 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. Be accountable for ensuring the Councils' statutory and regulatory obligations and duties are discharged across all construction projects and programmes Be 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 Professionally qualified or extensive knowledge and expertise of construction and related technical, legal, health and safety requirements and duty holder's responsibilities 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. Experience of commissioning and managing external contractors and consultants and of developing large and complex briefs and specifications based on knowledge and expertise. 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 effective, specialist teams Access to a vehicle and ability to travel across the county, sometimes at short notice. Desirable Experience and technical knowledge of working with different forms of contracts including JCT, NEC and County Council bespoke framework agreements This job role is within the Technical Services, level PRO14 job profile. Please locate this via: Job profiles: Technical services To hear more about this opportunity please contact Jackie. Aldridgehertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role. Interview Date: week commencing 17th February 2025 Benefits of working for us 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. 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. Driving required You'll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.