Major Projects Manager

Tameside is perfectly positioned for growth. With a wealth of culture, history and heritage to draw on and proud foundations that make it unique. Located just 12 minutes from Manchester City Centre, yet nestled in the foothills of the Peak District; Tameside is gifted with urban opportunity and rural tranquillity offering an ideal location for easy access to both the city and countryside.

With some of the largest development pockets of land in the Greater Manchester area, it really is a fantastic canvas for growth with the aspiration, vision and ambition to match. The Council is focussed on creating the right environment to attract investment, jobs, homes and infrastructure to support the growth of Greater Manchester and continue to make Tameside a great place to live, work, invest and visit.

Tameside has a number of significant growth projects that are being taken forward. These include the 2000+ home Godley Green Garden Village, the Ashton Moss employment site with capacity to deliver 1m sqft of commercial floorspace for advanced manufacturing uses, the St Petersfield mixed use regeneration scheme and other significant town centre regeneration projects.

These growth projects will deliver significant benefits including affordable housing, substantial infrastructure to improve connectivity, social value outcomes, unlocking private sector investment and expertise, alongside the revitalisation and re-imagination of Tameside's town centres.

Reporting to the Head of Development and Major Programmes and alongside key partners including GMCA, Homes England and TfGM you will be responsible for leading on the major growth projects within the Investment and Development team. Your role will be to drive forward the delivery of Tameside's key strategic sites, including the Godley Green Garden Village and Ashton Moss Innovation Park, to support the Council's corporate objectives for growth.

You will have a relevant professional qualification, with experience of successful delivery of projects and programmes with private/public sector interface on time and within budget. You will be able to work effectively in range of multi-agency and partnership settings to deliver investment and development schemes whilst negotiating complex commercial arrangements for project delivery.

You will be able to work at pace with enthusiasm engaging with and influencing stakeholders., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.