Project Manager

The Vacancy

📢 We’re Hiring: Project Manager – Wates Property Services (WPS)

📍 Location: Lewisham
🏢 Fully Site-Based ¦ Social Housing ¦ Cladding & Remedial Works

🏗 About Wates & WPS
At Wates, we create places, communities, and businesses of tomorrow. Wates Property Services focuses on housing and non-residential maintenance, fit-out, refurbishment, and facilities management across the UK.

This role is about delivering a major cladding and remedial works project – replacing old timber cladding with aluminium on an occupied property. It’s a logistically challenging site on a red route, so we need someone highly organised and experienced.

📌 Project Details
🏢 Occupied property – requires strong organisational skills
🔄 Switching timber cladding to aluminium
🚧 Red route location – logistical challenges
🏢 3-storey building

🔑 What You’ll Do
✔ Lead the cladding replacement project from start to finish
✔ Work alongside a Site Manager & Quantity Surveyor
✔ Develop detailed programmes & schedules for accurate progress tracking
✔ Ensure compliance with Health & Safety standards
✔ Oversee smooth project handover and client support
✔ Work within Wates safeguarding and professional standards

✅ What We’re Looking For
🔹 Highly experienced with cladding works/cladding remediation
🔹 Minimum 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager ideally within Planned Maintenance
🔹 Strong understanding of budgets (P&L)
🔹 Excellent communication & problem-solving skills
🔹 Ability to multi-task & meet deadlines
🔹 Driving License required
🔹 Background in social housing preferred

Technical Requirements:
📜 SMSTS
📜 NVQ L6 – Preferred
📜 H&S Training, First Aid, Asbestos Awareness

💡 Why Join Us?
Be part of a team that inspires better ways of working and makes a real impact in communities across the UK.

👉 Apply Now and help us deliver excellence in property services!

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.