Major Projects Manager

1 week ago


Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom Magna Housing Limited Full time

Major Projects Manager

  • Salary: £57,549 plus benefits
  • Hours: 37 hours flexible (Mon-Fri)
  • Home working with regular office attendance
  • Permanent Role.
  • The closing date for applications: Midday)

Are you an experienced Major Projects Manager in the housing sector, looking for your next opportunity? Do you enjoy seeing large scale and complex refurbishment and regeneration projects from design through to completion? Do you have strong building pathology knowledge and housing background? If so, Magna Housing have a new and exciting opportunity for you.

The role and what you take care of:

As a Major Projects Manager at Magna Housing, you will play a crucial role in delivering new homes and upgrading and investing in our existing homes. You will be collaborating closely with our growth and investments teams and contractors to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget.

You will be the primary point of contact, bridging customers, contractors, and colleagues in the delivery of the major projects.

  • You will be instrumental in embedding an ISO 55001 approach across Magna, delivering our strategic asset management goals, and implementing investment programmes.
  • Your expertise will include establishing effective connections with internal and external teams for a consistent, collaborative, and seamless approach, from project start to handover.
  • You will be responsible for building strong partnerships with contractors and key stakeholders.
  • You will be responsible for assessing and reporting on performance and spend while adhering to company policies and procedures.

What you need to be successful:

  • You will be an experienced housing professional, having previously worked on technical building programmes that focus on the improvement of multi-home sites through to large complex buildings (for example supported housing, older peoples' services). This role is all about delivering growth alongside regeneration and refurbishment of our homes.
  • In addition to your technical expertise/qualifications, you will be used to rolling your sleeves up and getting your hands dirty whilst balancing programme governance and control. Identifying and mitigating risk, whilst resolving the inevitable challenges that go hand in hand with any major project. We seek a creative candidate who enjoys seeking out new opportunities and innovation.
  • You will be an excellent communicator, keeping stakeholders and customers up to date and supporting them through periods of unavoidable disruption. You will also be able to use your leadership skills to lead, develop and mentor your line reports and lead a team of consultants, in addition to working across/supporting other functions across Magna.

A full role profile is attached to this advert. Applicants with transferrable skills are encouraged to apply.

Magna Benefits:

We pride ourselves on providing an excellent working environment and great benefits. We look after those who work for us as we understand that without the commitment of our colleagues, we would not be able to provide the fantastic range of services to our customers.

We offer:

  • 25 days holiday (rising to 30 days after 5 years' service)
  • Pension matched up to 8%
  • Employee assistance & health care cash plan
  • Learning and development
  • Discounts on entertainment, high street shops and grocery shopping
  • Wellbeing portal
  • Colleague Voice

Our full range of benefits can be viewed on our website under each vacancy:

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Dani Davies – Resourcing Business Partner at or mobile:

To apply please visit our website and scroll down to "Work with Magna".

Magna reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application early.


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