Buildings Improvement Manager

Job overview

2x fixed term contracts for up 23 months

Ready to make a real difference in healthcare? Join us in shaping modern, sustainable environments that support exceptional care across Gloucestershire. If you have experience in estates project management with a talent for collaboration and problem-solving, we want you on our team as our next Buildings Improvement Manager.

Main duties of the job

What You’ll Be Doing In this hands-on role, you’ll take ownership of a variety of building and refurbishment projects—from the first idea to the moment they’re ready for use. You’ll work closely with our Buildings and Environment Improvement Team, visiting sites across Gloucestershire and collaborating with colleagues from multiple disciplines to make every project a success.

Your key responsibilities will include: • Leading the full project lifecycle—from scoping and design through business case approval, procurement, and contractor management, ensuring a smooth handover to operational use. • Driving compliance with Trust procedures and statutory regulations, including Health & Safety and CDM legislation. • Managing budgets, timelines, and quality with confidence and precision. • Building strong relationships to influence, negotiate, and resolve challenges effectively with internal and external stakeholders. • Supporting the Estates and Facilities team in delivering the Trust’s capital programme and continuous improvement initiatives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible independently for the entire delivery of delegated estates and facilities projects (either of a low/medium value, low/medium complexity or a low/medium risk profile), supporting band 7’s in the delivery of complex programmes of work, which may include property acquisition or disposal.  The post holder will act independently to an agreed outcome.
• To be responsible for project planning, analysing data provided by others to produce key deliverables, including programme, resourcing, agreeing design and quality standards and budgeting, allowing for specialist input for works outside own competencies.  Monitoring and adjusting the plan as necessary to achieve key project objectives; escalating risks and issues through project or programme structures.

• To analyse complex and sometimes subjective information, cross referencing a range of information sources to produce a detailed, objective project brief to be agreed by all parties. To use judgement across a wide range of estates projects issues, including design options, considering Trust policy, H&S and conflicting demands including Health Technical Memorandum and Health Building Notes

• To control and effectively manage all aspects of project capital and revenue budgets, keeping accurate records, including fees, works, VAT assessment and equipment and commissioning costs, with cost plans, valuations and certificates recorded and filed.

• To produce financial reports when required at any stage of the project, ensuring all financial documentation is filed, suitable for audit, on completion.  To sign off contractor and supplier invoices on satisfactory completion of work, managing accruals and retention monies as required by the project.
• To lead the procurement process in line with Trust SFIs, working with Procurement specialists, to ensure a compliant route to market for all professional consultants and contractors.  Setting evaluation criteria for tenders and mini competition framework procurement.  Evaluating non-financial elements of bids against the set criteria, whilst maintaining the commercial sensitivity of the information.
• To be an excellent communicator with strong negotiating skills and knowledge and experience of effective stakeholder management.  Written and verbal communication with a wide range of stakeholders will be required, delivering complex messages and often sensitive information that may be upsetting to some.  Formal report writing and informal e-mails will be necessary, whilst maintaining the highest professional standards.
• To ensure that project works comply with Health and Safety Law, including the Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations (2015), that all parties are clearly identified and aware of their responsibilities.  To critically review the Risk and Method Statements provided by contractors, challenging any concerns to Health and Safety and wellbeing of all parties.  To actively promote good health and safety to Trust staff and service users.