Property Project Manager - Buckingham Palace, London

Property Project Manager - Buckingham Palace, London It's conserving the past, while developing its future. It's working as one to deliver impressive projects. And it’s joining the professional business behind the monarchy. This is what makes working for the Royal Household exceptional. Our Property Section is a team of highly skilled property professionals dedicated to the capital works, operation, and maintenance of The King’s official residences and other properties within the Occupied Royal Palaces. The size, complexity and heritage of the estate will present you with some truly fascinating and often unique challenges. The estate features a diverse range of buildings from residential apartments and offices to stables, galleries, and public visitor attractions, all maintained to the highest standards. Most of the buildings are Scheduled Ancient Monuments or Listed Buildings, and the team strives to be a centre of excellence. Yet these are also occupied working spaces, with a wide variety of uses from small to very large-scale events. You’ll therefore play an important role facilitating modern-day usage, while also preserving these iconic buildings for future generations.

About the role

• Joining the London team, you'll manage a mixed portfolio of projects across the London estate, ensuring a customer focus and cost-effective project delivery.
• From overseeing work and contractors to managing external design teams, you’ll take on an array of engaging assignments, varying in scope and scale.
• Every day, like every project, will be different. You'll have oversight for the full lifecycle of each project, management of risk and compliance, budget control and stakeholder relationships.
• You’ll ensure the team around you are engaged, motivated and delivering works to the highest standard, and within deadlines. These daily challenges will be vital to the continued running of our historic estates.
• With every new project, you’ll take a strategic view, identifying new ways to improve our working practices and project management.

Essential criteria

• With experience as a Property Project Manager or Surveyor within an environment of occupied spaces, you're the expert we're looking for. Experience of historic buildings would also prove an asset.
• You know how to lead property projects and works, considering statutory compliance and risk, whilst also being aware of cost control and contract management.
• Your focus on customer service will be clear in everything that you do, and as an effective communicator, you can quickly build positive relationships with colleagues and external contractors alike.
• Highly organised, you'll be confident managing a varied portfolio, all varying in scale and with competing deadlines.
• You’re a logical and innovative problem solver too, able to suggest pragmatic solutions and keep calm under pressure.
• Computer literate and with strong administrative skills, you'll be able to use Microsoft tools and ideally programme management software to deliver your varied workload.
• What’s more, with a naturally collaborative approach, you'll enjoy leading in-house and contractor teams to deliver the exceptional.

Benefits

• We know that to deliver our best work; we need to feel at our best. That’s why at the Royal Household we offer a generous benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and life priorities.
• Enjoy 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Our excellent non-contributory pension plan (we’ll contribute 15% and you can contribute more if you wish) is highly valued by our employees, as is complimentary lunch on-site to keep you fuelled throughout the day.
• We also offer a range of leave options to support your life priorities, such as parental pay and leave and volunteering days, as well as benefits to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Other perks include 20% off at our Royal Collection Trust Shops and complimentary admission tickets across all our locations, along with many more exclusive employee discounts.