Estates Technical Project Manager

Salary: Band 10, £45,948 – £50,109
Location: Agile, Forth Banks Police Station, Newcastle and homeworking
Hours/Contract: Full time, fixed term / secondment until 31st December 2024
Working for #TeamNP
Our purpose at Team NP is simple: to keep people safe and to fight crime. But it takes more than officers alone to do the job – and that’s where our 2,000-strong team of police staff and 200 volunteers come in.
As one of the largest police forces in England we have a huge variety of departments and specialisms offering you endless opportunities. From mentoring and coaching schemes and online soft skills courses to leadership development programmes; we’ll give you the support, training and time to carve out the career you always wanted.
As one of the top 50 UK inclusive employers and a disability confident employer, we promote a culture of respect in the workplace so everyone can feel seen, heard and valued.
Whether you’re a member of staff or a volunteer, you can also expect first-rate support to manage your health and wellbeing. With year-round events, a 24/7 welfare support hotline and a leading approach to neurodiversity, our initiatives enable you to be at your best.
Above all else, here at Team NP, we can offer you a career that is so much more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something that really matters.
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Estates Department as an Estates Technical Project Manager.
As the Estates Technical Project Manager, reporting directly to the Estates Projects Lead you will manage and deliver allocated projects to agreed parameters of quality, time and cost. You will be key in ensuring all project meet operational policing requirements and Force objectives.
What you’ll do
- Performing project management, technical, health and safety / CDM and contractual duties in relation to allocated projects.
- Maintaining detailed knowledge of all legislation, guidance and best practice impacting on the Estates Section.
- Identifying and proactively engage with all internal and external stakeholders and ensure that the project team has a thorough understanding of the operational and technical requirements.
- Preparing individual project option appraisals, feasibility reports, business cases and board papers.
- Preparing project briefs and specifications ensuring at all times that these meet the operational requirements of the organisation.
- Managing both design and construction contracts in use by the organisation from initiation of the procurement process through to completion, managing contractor performance through the use of KPI’s etc through a process of continuous improvement.
What you’ll bring
- Degree in quantity surveying / building surveying, building services engineers, architecture, or facilities management.
- Knowledge and use of JCT and NEC forms of contract and contract remedies.
We know it’s important for you to feel that you’re not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of an Estates Technical Project Manager with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by an interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter). If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a fixed term role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a 6month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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