Roller Shutter Doors - Package Manager
Fawkes & Reece - Cardiff, Cardiff
£350 to £450 a day
ContractFull time
A leading Tier 1 construction team is seeking an experienced Roller Shutter Doors Package Manager to take ownership of a specialist package on a major new indoor entertainment venue in Cardiff. The development will deliver a 16,500-capacity venue within a major waterfront regeneration scheme, creating one of the city's most significant new destinations. Key Responsibilities: * Manage the roller shutter door subcontractor through to completion * Coordinate technical design, specifications, drawings and approvals * Manage programme, procurement and delivery * Coordinate interfaces with architectural, structural, MEP and fire packages * Monitor subcontractor progress and performance * Manage inspections, testing, commissioning and snagging * Support commercial management, variations and change control * Coordinate with Design, Commercial, Construction and Project Management teams * Ensure compliance with quality, health & safety and programme requirements About You: * Experience managing roller shutter, specialist door or architectural door packages * Previous Tier 1/main contractor experience is essential * Experience on major commercial, industrial, retail, leisure, transport or infrastructure projects * Strong technical coordination and subcontractor management skills * Good programme and construction interface knowledge * Strong commercial awareness * CSCS and SMSTS, or equivalent Experience with fire-rated, security-rated or electrically operated shutter and door systems would be advantageous. Specialist subcontractor-only backgrounds will not be considered. An excellent opportunity to own a specialist package on a landmark entertainment venue within a major Tier 1 construction environment.
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Defra Group Property (DgP) Project Manager
Government Recruitment Service
£56,375 to £69,105 a year
PermanentFull time
Within DgP we provide services that underpin workplaces for more than 30,000 colleagues, covering an extensive portfolio of almost 300 sites across Defra Group. Defra has the largest estate by area within the whole of government (c900,000 acres), comprising a diverse mix of operational and administrative assets. The portfolio includes offices, depots, incident response facilities, warehouses, laboratories, port and border inspection facilities, stores and land As a Project Manager in DgP as part of Defra’s wider Project Delivery profession the successful candidate will be providing end to end Project Management leadership and the application of technical project management skills and experience to deliver a range of Property related projects. This role provides the successful candidate with an opportunity to work across DgP and with the wider Defra Group with the Arms Length Bodies when delivery property related project ensuring property solutions act as enabler to wider Defra Group outcomes The team is looking for a confident, collaborative and delivery-focused Project Manager who can operate effectively across organisational boundaries, bringing together property and programme delivery to achieve shared outcomes. Your role will be central in ensuring the successful integration of property within the Water Regulator programme This Project Manager role initially focusses on the Water Regulator Programme within Defra Group Property (DgP) but as a generic Project Manager will also in the long term cover other property related projects. Our ambitious 25-year Environment Plan and legislative agenda is delivering transformational change across the Environment, Agriculture and Marine sectors. As part of this, Defra is establishing a new Water Regulator to strengthen oversight, improve environmental outcomes and ensure the long-term sustainability of water resources. Defra Group Property plays a critical role in enabling this delivery. Our estate underpins essential services—from offices and laboratories to operational infrastructure that supports flood resilience, environmental monitoring and national capability. As we support the creation of the Water Regulator, property will be fundamental in ensuring the organisation is set up to operate effectively, safely and sustainably. This role sits at the intersection of Defra Group Property and the wider Water Regulator Programme. The Project Manager will act as a key link between DgP and programme stakeholders across the Defra Group, ensuring that property-related requirements are fully understood, integrated and delivered as part of the wider programme. You will play a crucial role in aligning strategic property delivery with programme objectives, ensuring a coherent and joined-up approach. The Defra Group is a large and complex organisation of around 30,000 staff, working across core Defra and its arm’s length bodies, with significant investment in infrastructure and transformation programmes. Delivering the Water Regulator requires strong, coordinated project leadership across multiple functions and stakeholders Key Responsibilities Lead and manage the delivery of property-related elements of the Water Regulator programme, ensuring alignment with wider programme objectives. Act as the key interface between Defra Group Property and the Water Regulator Programme, ensuring effective coordination, communication and integration. Provide day-to-day leadership and management of the project and wider Project Group, establishing appropriate governance, structures and controls. Develop and maintain robust project plans, ensuring delivery is clearly tracked and reported across both DgP and programme governance structures. Ensure property requirements are clearly defined, scoped and delivered in line with programme timelines, budget and quality expectations
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Interim Manager (Fixed Term Contract 6 Months)
Salutem Care and Education -
Cardiff, Wales
£55,000 to £65,000 a year
PermanentFull time
About The Company Join Salutem Care & Education and help shape a workforce that truly makes a difference. At Salutem Care and Education, our aim is to empower people to live a life they choose, regardless of the care or support they need. We are proud to provide a range of care and support across our schools, day centres, and residential homes for children and adults. Just like any strong community, we want the very best for the individuals we support. We’re proud to be recognised by the Top Employers Institute as a Top Employer United Kingdom, reflecting our exceptional culture, care, and commitment to our people. In addition, we’re honoured to be named among the 2025 Top 100 Global Inspiring Workplaces, and to have achieved Top 10 in the 2026 UK & Ireland Inspiring Workplaces Awards. We’re passionate about developing and supporting colleagues for the future. Through a culture of continuous learning and reflective practice, we create opportunities for personal and professional growth — helping our people build meaningful and rewarding careers in care. About The Role Are you an experienced Children's Residential leader who thrives in challenging and transformational environments? We are seeking an exceptional Interim Manager to take responsibility for one of our Children's Residential Homes in Cardiff on a fixed-term basis. This is a critical leadership role requiring a confident and experienced professional who can quickly establish operational stability, strengthen compliance, and drive sustainable improvements in service quality and outcomes for children and young people. You will be empowered to lead with autonomy while championing a trauma-informed and therapeutic approach that places the safety, wellbeing, and voice of every child at the centre of decision-making. The Opportunity As Interim Manager, you will provide strong, visible leadership and be accountable for the day-to-day management and performance of the home. Key responsibilities include: • Acting as the home's senior safeguarding lead, ensuring children and young people are safe, protected, and supported at all times. • Taking immediate ownership of regulatory compliance, inspection outcomes, action plans, and service improvement initiatives. • Providing decisive operational leadership across staffing, rotas, supervision, performance management, and daily decision-making. • Leading teams through periods of change, embedding high professional standards, accountability, and a positive culture. • Developing and implementing robust quality assurance, governance, and recording processes. • Building effective relationships with Ofsted, local authorities, social workers, and wider partner agencies. • Embedding sustainable improvements and ensuring effective succession planning and handover arrangements. • Promoting therapeutic, child-centred practice that improves outcomes and experiences for young people. This role reports directly to the Responsible Individual/Head of Children’s What We're Looking For Essential Experience & Qualifications • Significant experience managing or leading Children's Residential Homes. • Proven experience within regulated children's services. • Strong working knowledge of: o Children's Homes Regulations o Quality Standards o Ofsted inspection frameworks • Demonstrable safeguarding expertise and the ability to make sound decisions in complex and high-pressure situations. • A track record of leading teams through change, challenging poor practice, and driving service improvement. • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and report-writing skills. • Experience of working with therapeutic approaches, including PACE and therapeutic parenting models. • The resilience, professionalism, and credibility required to operate effectively in demanding environments. Desirable • Registered Manager status or eligibility to register with Ofsted. • Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (or equivalent). • Experience supporting children with: o Trauma and attachment needs o SEMH needs o Complex behaviours o High-risk presentations • Previous experience leading turnaround, improvement, or post-inspection recovery programmes. Key Attributes We're looking for a leader who is: • Passionately child-focused with strong professional values and integrity. • Calm, authoritative, and confident in their leadership approach. • Highly organised with excellent attention to detail. • Resilient, adaptable, and able to operate at pace. • Solution-focused and outcome-driven. • Emotionally intelligent, with the ability to inspire, support, and challenge others effectively. Why Join Salutem? At Salutem, people are at the heart of everything we do. You’ll join a collaborative and supportive environment where your ideas, leadership, and expertise will make a real impact — not only on our teams, but on the lives of the people we support every day. If you’re passionate about operational excellence, developing people, and building outstanding recruitment and HR processes, we’d love to hear from you. Our Core Values: ➡️Supportive: Helping everyone reach their full potential. ➡️Ambitious: Striving for the best outcomes. ➡️Loyal: Prioritising our staff and the people we support. ➡️Unique: Innovating without compromising quality. ➡️Transparent: Fostering openness and mutual respect. ➡️Engaging: Partnering with everyone involved. ➡️Meaningful: Offering fulfilling opportunities. Why Choose Us? ✅Emotional Support: 24/7 Employee Assistance, mental health resources, meditation apps, and bereavement support. ✅ Medical Support: Free Online GP access, Health Cash Plan, Cancer Cover, and Menopause support. ✅ Financial Support: Flexible pay with Wagestream, utility bill savings, Money Helper, and Life Assurance. ✅ Physical Support: Online workouts, Cycle to Work scheme, gym discounts, and National Trust activities. Still not convinced? 🌟 Recognised as a Top Employer United Kingdom 2026 by the Top Employers Institute. 🌍 Named among the Top 100 Global Inspiring Workplaces by Inspiring Workplaces. ♿ Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. Salutem Care and Education is dedicated to protecting and promoting the well-being of children, young adults, and vulnerable individuals. As part of our safer recruitment process, the successful candidate will be required to complete thorough pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS and, where applicable, overseas criminal record checks.
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22627 - Delivery Manager - Cardiff Civil & Family Justice Centre
Ministry of Justice - Cardiff
£35,335 to £37,847 a year
On-sitePermanentFull time
Proud to serve. Proud to keep justice going. Our Delivery Managers play a critical role helping deliver justice. They are responsible for management of day-to-day operations within their area. Driven by commitment to provide excellent customer service through their team, they recognise that employee engagement, morale and motivation is key to delivering a highly effective performance. If you’re customer focussed and intent on delivering excellent service, then this is an exciting leadership role. About us HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family Courts and Tribunals in England, Wales as well as the reserved unified tribunals across the United Kingdom. Our roles support our service users and colleagues within HMCTS, where people and businesses access potentially life-changing justice. We’re looking for individuals who are committed to public service and making a difference in people’s lives to deliver justice. About your role The role of a manager is at the heart of HMCTS operations, shaped by the Civil Service Line Management Standards. It’s rewarding, challenging, and essential to our success. We’re looking for managers who can lead their teams to deliver high performance, manage attendance effectively, and champion reward and recognition. You will be responsible for the smooth running of Cardiff Civil & Family Justice Centre, 2 Park Street, Cardiff CF10 1ET, leading your team of EO managers and other staff, and supporting your operations manager to meet operational needs, deliver performance objectives and provide a consistent and customer-focused service You’re familiar with work environments that are process and compliance driven. You give guidance and direction to your team, to support delivery of the overall business plan. You will make sure that performance outcomes are met, and the team is resourced and trained effectively to meet your allocated budget, identifying and implementing solutions to problems. You can develop effective relationships with all key stakeholders, which will include the judiciary. Please refer to the role profile attachment for to understand more about this key leadership position. Essential knowledge, skills and experience People management skills to successfully lead your teams, with the coaching aptitude to support and empower your people. Allowing people to develop the skills, confidence and experience to independently deal with business and people related issues. Management skills; ability to plan, set realistic performance measures, delegate and review progress to improve performance and manage risks. Able to build and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders at all levels. To influence and negotiate to resolve competing priorities and issues. Effective communication skills including delivering and leading on key messages, ensuring that they are understood and implemented consistently. Ability to analyse data, identify trends and workflow requirements to make informed decisions that contribute to local and national priorities and improving service delivery. Your development Our HMCTS Leadership Development offer is designed to strengthen your leadership skills, with practical tools and learning that fit around your role. From bite-sized learning and interactive workshops to deeper insights through our Accountability & Decision-Making framework, we’ll equip you to lead with impact, inspire and drive performance across the organisation. If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role with real purpose, apply today. About our benefits We reward our people for their hard work and commitment. We have a number of family friendly and flexible working polices that will help you achieve a healthy work-life balance. In addition, we offer a range of employee benefits which include generous annual leave, a highly competitive contributory pension scheme, childcare benefits, season ticket and bicycle loans. Further details: New recruits to the Civil Service joining MoJ are expected to join at the band minimum. These operational roles are customer facing, requiring successful applicants to be office based to provide HMCTS services to the public. Standard full time working hours are 37 hours per week. HMCTS welcomes part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns, where they meet the demands of the role and business needs and are agreed prior to appointment. All applications for part-time, flexible and job-sharing working patterns will be considered in accordance with the MoJ’s Flexible Working policy. This is a business-critical role requiring full-time hours but would also consider job share.
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Critical Chemicals Resilience Support Fund Senior Fund Managers x3
Government Recruitment Service - Cardiff
£60,732 to £71,296 a year
PermanentFull time
The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) is the department for economic growth. We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country. We operate in an increasingly dynamic international environment, with a range of forces rapidly reshaping the global economy. To meet this challenge, the Government launched a new Modern Industrial Strategy in June 2025. The Materials Directorate provides oversight of key cornerstone sectors of our economy – including chemicals, critical minerals, and other foundation industries (paper, glass, cement, ceramics), providing policy expertise to support economic growth in these sectors and ensuring that they continue to support our national resilience. Announced in May this year, the £350m Critical Chemicals Resilience Fund will help ensure that Government can work with the most essential businesses within the chemical sector to improve their competitiveness and bolster their resilience. You will be working with industry to agree co-investments, develop robust business cases and to agree delivery plans for each of the Fund recipients. We expect the Fund to garner strong ministerial interest and oversight given the importance of chemicals for critical national infrastructure and national security. We therefore encourage applications from candidates that are comfortable engaging senior officials and ministers. The team you will be joining also has the remit of Government intervention and responses to market failures for the chemicals sector and other sectors that the Materials Directorate has responsibility for. You therefore may be required to work flexibly and balance these priorities. We envisage further opportunities becoming available over the coming months to support the directorates wider portfolio, particularly with regards to the delivery of the £120m Ceramics Industry Support Scheme which will offer competitive funding across the ceramics sector to improve decarbonisation and efficiency. There may also be opportunities to support the government’s strategy for foundation sectors. The reserve list for this recruitment campaign will therefore be used to support filling those roles. Key Responsibilities Advising, negotiating and overseeing business cases and investment plans with industry. Working closely with Cross Whitehall partners including BIST Grants Delivery Directorate, HMT, UKGI and external advisers to assess the benefits and return on investment of the projects, including ensuring delivery against HMG Value for Money principles. Showcase your strong negotiating skills and stakeholder management to work with businesses on project delivery, alongside external advisers. Programme management of the Fund Manage virtual teams across BIST policy, grants, finance, legal and commercial colleagues to ensure effective running of the Fund. Ensure fast and consistent delivery across the programme of co-investment projects, including agreement of grant funding, and appropriate monitoring and evaluation. Implement and oversee robust governance structures to support effective evaluation of projects and senior assurance of both individual projects and the programmes themselves. Represent the CCF to stakeholders, seniors and across Whitehall Lead strategic engagement with external stakeholders, particularly successful grant applicants, but also wider industry stakeholders including trade representative organisations, to support effective delivery of the Fund. Lead briefing for Senior Officials and Ministers to provide oversight of economic growth and resilience in the sector, and ensure ongoing alignment of the scheme and approved projects with Departmental priorities.
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22311 - Part-time Diary Manager (18.5 hours per week) - Cardiff
Ministry of Justice - CARDIFF
£28,064 to £33,549 a year, pro rata
On-siteTemporaryPart time
Overview of the job This is an administrative role in NPS Divisional headquarters, clusters and functions and reports to the NPS Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function as appropriate Summary The role is to provide secretarial and administrative support to the Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function by acting as the primary point of contact and assisting in the management of the day to day running of the division, function or cluster through the key tasks of diary coordination, compilation of correspondence and documents and the organisations of meetings and other engagements. The job holder will have no line manager responsibilities Responsibilities, Activities & Duties The job holder will be required to carry out the following responsibilities, activities and duties: Manage Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function’s Diary • Supporting the Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function in meeting business requirements by supporting them to resolve conflicting demands in planning schedules • Efficient maintenance of the Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function’s diary ensuring that time management is optimised • Acting as the first point of contact for the Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function, using initiative and responding to and/or directing queries to the relevant parties • Acting as a screening point for the Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function’s telephone calls, general correspondence and e-mails, highlighting priority work and responding to queries using an understanding of Probation service delivery and the partnership map • Providing a full range of secretarial and administrative support and assistance to the Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function, producing a range of material from correspondence to complex confidential reports • Developing and maintaining comprehensive and up-to-date electronic and manual filing systems which support the operational delivery of Probation services and are effective in storing and retrieving key data • Support planning and finalising of agendas for meetings, overseeing co- ordination and distribution of paperwork • Taking minutes at senior management meetings and distributing to relevant parties • Liaising directly with internal and external colleagues and partners to deal with enquiries and to co-ordinate appointments and engagements • Keeping up to date with changes in key external partnerships which relate to Probation service delivery • Contributing towards the organisation and coordination of large scale divisional events • Coordination and collation of meetings for internal and external attendees, booking rooms, arranging refreshments, preparing material, greeting visitors etc • Dealing with highly sensitive issues, acting with diplomacy and maintaining strict confidentiality at all times • Arranging business travel and accommodation for the Deputy Director or Head of Operational Function. Use communication effectively • Providing information, feedback and advice • Influencing and persuading • Participate in meetings where appropriate • Using appropriate skills, styles and approaches Enhance your own performance • Manage own resources and professional development Use information to take critical decisions • Liaise with staff to receive, collate and analyse information, using systems and compiling reports as necessary • Develop and utilise data to identify trends and take appropriate action to maintain and enhance performance • Plan, implement and manage systems for the exchange of sensitive information, data and intelligence The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The job holder is expected to accept reasonable alternations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary. Significant adjustments may require re-examination under the Job Evaluation Scheme and shall be discussed in the first instance with the Job Holder. An ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English or (where specified in Wales) Welsh Behaviours • Working Together • Delivering at Pace • Making Effective Decisions • Changing and Improving Essential Experience • Experience of managing diary of a senior executive • Experience of providing a wide range of management support activities Technical requirements NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in a relevant subject (or appropriate practical experience) IT Skills: Microsoft: Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint Hours of Work (Unsocial Hours) Allowances 37
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