Senior Project Manager - (Structures and MEP)

Role and project

Project leadership and delivery

• Own delivery against agreed time, cost, quality, scope, risk, and benefit objectives.
• Lead and inspire a multidisciplinary team, which may include project managers, engineers, construction managers, design managers, and functional leads.
• Maintain relationships with the client, supply chain, customers, and stakeholders.
• Lead project reviews, governance, reporting, performance management, and risk and opportunity reviews.
• Align plans, resources, and delivery strategies with programme milestones and customer expectations.
• Provide visible leadership on health, safety, and environmental performance.

Commercial, quality, and team responsibilities

• Oversee procurement and subcontract package allocation, and align materials and supply-chain requirements with the programme.
• Drive quality assurance, handover, and certification requirements.
• Ensure schedules are resource-loaded, regularly reviewed, and accurately reported.
• Provide commercial and contractual leadership, control expenditure, and administer client and supply-chain contracts.
• Recruit, develop, coach, and lead a high-performing project team.
• Promote project controls, digital information, and data-informed decision-making.

Required experience and capabilities

• Strong track record delivering major and complex projects, with building and MEP experience.
• Experience implementing and maintaining safe systems of work, and a good understanding of standard forms of contract.
• Strong commercial awareness and project, stakeholder-management, and communication skills.
• Leadership and people-management capability, including influencing multidisciplinary teams and coaching and developing others.
• Able to work in a high-pressure, complex project environment, with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of performance-management techniques and project metrics, and a proactive, solutions-focused approach.

Advantageous qualifications and experience

• Experience across a range of major project types is advantageous.
• Professional-body membership such as APM or MICE is advantageous.
• A relevant construction, engineering, or project-management degree, or equivalent industry experience, is advantageous.
• APM PFQ, PMQ, or PPQ, or equivalent; CSCS and SMSTS, or equivalents; Microsoft 365 knowledge; and a full UK driving licence are advantageous.

Security clearance

• The role is subject to security requirements; candidates must hold, or be capable of obtaining, UK Security Clearance.
• The source description ends mid-sentence after the clearance requirement begins.