Project Director - Marina Village

360North is exclusively partnered with MUSE to recruit a new, best-in-class team to deliver a landmark £450m, 10-year regeneration scheme in Barrow-in-Furness. Marina Village is a once-in-a-generation scheme that will completely reshape the town, underpin economic growth, and create a lasting legacy. The scheme will deliver hundreds of new homes in its first phase, forming the catalyst for wider regeneration of Barrow’s waterfront and town centre.

The newly appointed Project Director will be integral to shaping the future of Barrow – physically, economically, and socially. A project of this complexity and scale requires a market leading individual who has demonstrable experience of delivering large scale regeneration schemes from inception to completion. This fantastic opportunity provides an unrivalled platform for career progression whilst delivering one of the UK’s most important and significant regeneration schemes.

The Role: A Project Director is an essential member of the Muse development team with overall responsibility for delivery of complex masterplans and developments. You will need experience in delivering complex, long term and sustainable places. With excellent communication skills that enable you to form strong relationships with partners and other stakeholders, you will also possess the ability to successfully lead a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities: The responsibilities for a Project Director are wide ranging, ensuring successful delivery of our developments and growth of the business. Depending upon on the specific requirements of a project responsibilities include:

• Leading work bidding for new developments alongside the Development Management team.
• Establishing procurement strategies for projects and ensuring compliance.
• Establishing governance procedures to ensure developments are successfully controlled within budgets and expenditure approvals.
• Taking overall responsibility for managing the development budget ensuring the project proceeds within agreed costs.
• Leading on establishing and concluding necessary consultant appointments, third-party agreements, agreements for lease and funding agreements.
• Ensure neighbourly matters (rights to light, party walls etc) are identified, understood and progressed as required.
• Take overall responsibility for delivery in accordance with Muse protocols and gateway approvals.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and drive the project team to ensure delivery of key outputs in line with programme.
• Manage project teams and establish procurement strategy of main contractors.
• Establish quality management requirements and arrangements for monitoring construction quality and compliance with Muse’s brief.
• Ensure payments under the building contract, consultant appointments, drawdowns under funding agreements are being managed and manage cashflow expenditure.
• Ensure the completion and handover process is managed.
• Help promote the importance of Social Value and Sustainability within projects and ensure ESG policy and corporate procedures are adhered to during project implementation.
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Project Managers (at all levels) ensuring they perform at their best and grow professionally.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience: Experience in project management within property development, construction, or regeneration, with a strong track record of delivering complex, large-scale masterplans and developments from inception to completion. Proven experience of leading project teams, including Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, and junior staff. Strong experience of governance, approvals, and reporting processes at senior and board level.