Project manager Work, Jobs in Cardiff (with Salaries)

Project Manager
Office for National Statistics —Newport
- £56,861 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- PMP
- Presentation skills
1d
Assistant Construction Technical Project Manager
Fim Limited —Cardiff
- Up to £45,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Office
- Project management
- Communication skills
- Work from home
- Employee assistance programme
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Project Manager
Hartland Fire / Construction —Cardiff
- £45,000 - £55,000 a year
- Full-time
- Project management
- Travel
- Organisational skills
Quick apply
8d
Project Manager (Environment)
WSP —Cardiff
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Project management
- Contracts
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Senior Project Manager H/F
Groupe Ortec —Whitchurch
- £75,000 - £82,000 a year
- Management
- Engineering
- Project management
- Employee assistance programme
Quick apply
Project Manager (Infrastructure)
Amentum —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Continuous improvement
- Mentoring
- Employee assistance programme
MEP Project Manager
TavasTechs Ltd —Cardiff
- £75,000 - £85,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Project management
- Construction experience
- In-person
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Senior Project Coordinator
General Dynamics Land Systems UK —Blackwood
- £42,000 - £52,500 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
Infrastructure Delivery Project Manager
F-AH Engineering Solutions Ltd. —Cardiff
- £67,000 a year
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
- Project management
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
Quick apply
9d
Senior Project Manager
Gallifordtry —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Project management
- Travel
- Construction experience
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
13d
Training Advisor – Project Management
ACT Training —Cardiff
- £292 - £335 a day
- Full-time
- Project management
- IT
- Communication skills
18h
Project Controller
WSP —Cardiff
- Microsoft Excel
- Engineering
- Microsoft Office
Associate Project Manager
PCI Pharma Services —Bridgend
- 8 hour shift
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Office
- Administrative experience
- Maths
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
Project Controls & Delivery Specialist
Vegas Professional Project Solutions Ltd. —Cardiff
- £76,000 a year
- Salesforce
- Data analysis skills
- Supervising experience
- Health & wellbeing programme
Quick apply
3d
Project Management Assistant
Network Rail —Cardiff
- £30,000 - £32,000 a year
- Full-time
- Management
- Project management
13d
Project Controller
Associated British Ports —Cardiff
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Office
- Project management
5d
Senior Project Manager (PMCM Build)
WSP —Cardiff
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Project management
- Contracts
- Leadership
- Flexitime
- Work from home
Engineering - Project Manager
Finsbury Food Group —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Engineering
- Project management
- Bakery
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee discount
Quick apply
Project Team Coordinator
Enable Promotional Marketing —Weston-super-Mare
- £27,000 - £30,000 a year
- Full-time
- Project management
- Organisational skills
- Leadership
- Free parking
Quick apply
8d
Operations Excellence Project Lead
Safran —Cwmbran
- Full-time
- Analysis skills
- Project management
- Continuous improvement
14d

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Project Manager

Office for National Statistics -
Newport

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Job details

Permanent | Part-time | Full-time
£56,861 a year
1 day ago

Benefits

Company pension

Qualifications

PMP
Presentation skills
PRINCE2 Certification

Full job description

Details

Reference number

471738

Salary

£56,861

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Data Product Services and Governance

Type of role

Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
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Location

The locations for this role are Newport, Titchfield (Fareham).

This role is aligned to ONS hybrid working principles, which are based on attending the office with purpose. The postholder will be expected to contribute to the organisations overall 40% office attendance, in line with business and role requirements.

The induction process for the role will be conducted in person.

About the job

Job summary

Join us as a Project Manager and lead the successful delivery of high-impact projects that shape the UKs key economic and social insights.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UKs largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution, and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime, and migration.

Working within the Portfolio Office of the Data Products Services, and Governance Directorate, you will be at the heart of coordinating projects that enable ONS to produce the official statistics that inform government policy and public understanding of society and the economy.

The Project Delivery Profession (PDP) leads and supports the delivery of some of the most complex and high-impact projects across government. With over 26,000 professionals managing programmes, portfolios and projects nationwide, the profession plays a vital role in implementing government policy and driving organisational change.

As a member of the Project Delivery Profession, you will benefit from access to a strong community of practice, professional development opportunities, and shared learning that supports successful delivery. The profession provides expert guidance, tools and career pathways to help you build your skills and progress your career, while contributing to delivering real outcomes for the public.

Job description

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of mutiple projects across the Portfolio to ensure objectives are clearly defined and achieved within agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. The Project Manager plays a key role in project governance and works with stakeholders to ensure agreed project outputs are delivered, enabling benefits to be realised.

Responsibilities

Creates and leads the project to deliver agreed outcomes within time, cost, and quality constraints, providing day to day management, leadership, and effective project controls.
Providing effective leadership and management controls.
Designs the project establishes project controls, selecting appropriate delivery methodologies, and managing transitions between project phases.
Delivers the benefits and outcomes stated in the business case, ensures a suitable benefits realisation strategy is in place and monitors long-term benefit delivery against the business case.
Identifies and manages stakeholder relationships, ensuring necessary senior-level support. Manages internal and external relationships appropriately.
Identifies and monitors project risks and issues, develops mitigating actions and escalates when necessary. Collaborates with related projects to Identifies and monitors project risks and issues, develops mitigating actions and escalates when necessary. Collaborates with related projects to manage inter-dependencies.
Supports effective governance and decision-making.
Participates in assurance reviews and supports implementation of recommendations.
Organises assurance processes, such as gateway reviews, when required.
Ensures change management processes are in place to agree on and document changes to deliverables with stakeholders.
Offers support, guidance, and coaching to the wider team, shows commitment to personal development, and promotes effective team performance.
Communicates the vision and translates it into delivery objectives for the portfolio. Develops and maintains the Project Plan, sets project controls, manages performance, and reports progress to director and boards.

These qualifications would be advantageous alongside proven experience delivering projects, however training will be available for the successful candidate.

PRINCE2 Practitioner
Agile Project Management Practitioner.
APM Project Management Qualification.
APM Chartered Project Professional.
Project Leadership Programme.
PMI Project Management Professional.
Managing Projects and Leading Workstreams.
Government Project Professional accreditation.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

The successful candidate will have proven of experience of the following in a high complexity project/s:

Leading the successful delivery of projects within budget, time, quality and user expectations across the whole project life cycle, tailoring their approach and applying the appropriate frameworks, methodologies, standards, tools and techniques.
Active management of project plans, risks, issues, dependencies, and assumptions. Identifying threats and opportunities that arise, understanding their impact on key objectives - taking the appropriate approach to their management.
Supporting decision-making by identifying, interpreting, analysing, and presenting information. Specifically providing detailed insightful reporting and clear briefings on complex issues to senior stakeholders and chairing boards within a formal governance framework.
Management of a complex workload. Using innovative approaches and personal resilience to respond quickly and decisively to changing and challenging priorities and deadlines to deliver valued outcomes.
Successfully leading across functional and organizational boundaries. Specifically, evidence of influencing decision-making through strong, collaborative relationships, inspiring and motivating people by providing clear direction amidst uncertainty, role modelling appropriate behaviors, and challenging inappropriate ones.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Frameworks & Methodologies (Practitioner Level) - Project Delivery Capability Framework
Planning (Practitioner Level) - Project Delivery Capability Framework

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,861, Office for National Statistics contributes £16,472 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.

Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.

Inclusion & Accessibility

At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader were committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

ONS are committed to flexible ways of working that support a healthy work-life balance. ONS has already considered how this job could be right sized for applicants working flexibly and we are happy to explore options with you about working part time, in a job share or flexibly, in line with our hybrid working policies.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Visa Sponsorship:

ONS are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. Applicants are expected to hold a valid right to work in the UK when employment commences. If you are applying on a time-limited visa, this will need to be valid for at least 18 months.

To work at the ONS, candidates must meet both UK right to work and security clearance requirements (where applicable).

If you are unsure whether you meet the appropriate right to work or security clearance eligibility criteria, please refer to the guidance on Gov.uk or contact the recruitment email provided in the advert before applying. Failure to meet these requirements will result in your application being rejected and employment offers being withdrawn.

Applicant Support

Number of Stages: 3 stage process

Stage 1: Civil Service Judgement Test

Stage 2: Application

Stage 3: Interview

Stage 1 Civil Service Judgement Test

Upon submission of Part 1 your application form you will be sent an invitation to complete Civil Service Judgement online tests.

There will be full instructions on how to complete each test including an opportunity to practice before undertaking the actual test. These tests are not time limited.

If you pass a test, you will then receive a further invite to complete each subsequent test if there is more than one for this vacancy. If you fail a test your application will not proceed to the next stage.

If you pass all tests for this vacancy, you will be invited to complete the final stage of your application, this is where you will provide information such as your work history. Skills and experience and Personal Statement.

Stage 2 Application

The assessment process at the application stage will be based on your work history skills, experience and personal statement. It is important that your application is tailored to highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role.

A personal statement is required at application stage, the maximum wordcount allowed is 1250, which should not be exceeded. You should provide evidence for each essential skill criterion listed in the person specification. As these criteria are scored, it is advisable to give clear examples for each one, including the impact of your actions, ideally utilising the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result).

Please note that Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage of the application process.

When a high volume of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted. Candidates will be invited to interview based on their merit order, with those achieving the highest scores being prioritised. Applicants who score below the adjusted pass mark but still pass will be placed on hold and may be invited to interview at a later date.

Stage 3 Interview

If invited to interview, you will be assessed using techniques aligned with the Civil Service Success Profiles framework, covering all behaviours listed in the job advert and any required technical skills.

Interviews will take place in person at our Newport Office. Please note that travel expenses will not be reimbursed. You will also be required to bring valid photo identification to your interview.

A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.

Important Dates:

The Sift will be conducted from: 13/08/2026

Interviews will be conducted from: 01/09/2026

Dates are subject to change.

For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.

Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : [email protected]
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission

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