Senior Project Manager – Critical Infrastructure
Location: Manchester (with UK & European project exposure)
Type: Permanent
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience
Reference: Morson Edge – Critical Infrastructure PM (Confidential)
The opportunity
We’re working exclusively with a specialist engineering contractor thats grown fast and quietly become one of the names people in critical infrastructure delivery talk about. Multiple live programmes across the UK and mainland Europe, more coming, and a leadership team that wants a Senior Project Manager in Manchester who can own delivery rather than just administer it.
We can’t name the business. What we can tell you is that this isn’t a company padding out a CV with data centre experience to look relevant. It’s a genuine principal and main contractor operating in live, critical, always-on environments where getting it wrong isn’t an option and getting it right is the whole job.
Who this suits
You dont need to have built a data centre before. What matters more is where you’ve been cutting your teeth. We want to hear from Project Managers coming out of:
Electrical contracting and building services
MEP and M&E delivery
CSA fit-out and complex internal environments
Critical power, technical fit-out or specialist subcontracting
Principal contractor backgrounds delivering multi-disciplined packages
If you’ve run packages or full projects where CSA and MEP interfaces actually mattered, where the programme was tight, the client was demanding and the environment didnt forgive mistakes, this role will feel familiar even if the sector label is new.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll take ownership of project or package delivery from a Principal or Main Contractor position, managing the full lifecycle: design coordination, procurement, subcontractor and supply chain management, commercial reporting, programme control and commissioning oversight. You’ll be the person clients and their professional teams deal with directly, so this is a delivery and relationship role in equal measure, not a back-office one.
Day to day, expect to be:
Driving programme, cost and quality across CSA and MEP works
Leading procurement of plant, equipment and works packages alongside commercial teams
Managing subcontractor and supply chain performance to keep packages on track
Overseeing commissioning through to handover, with all documentation done properly
Owning client relationships and communication, not just reporting upward internally
Managing risk, early warnings and commercial exposure across NEC, JCT or FIDIC forms
What you’ll bring
Around 10 years in construction delivery, ideally as a Principal or Sub-Contractor
Strong M&E and CSA interface knowledge, including commissioning
Confidence managing programme, cost and supply chain simultaneously
Comfortable working in demanding, live or critical environments where downtime isn’t an option
SMSTS, CSCS and a relevant H&S qualification
HNC/HND or degree in a relevant engineering discipline
Why look at this now
This client is expanding, not consolidating. That means genuine progression for someone who wants to grow into bigger programmes rather than sit still in one. It also means the person who joins now has more influence over how things get built than someone joining once the structure is already set.
This is being run on a confidential, retained basis through Morson. Full details on the business, the programmes and the package are shared at the point of a conversation, not before.
Interested or want to know more before applying?
Contact Ryan Dickenson, Morson Edge, for a confidential conversation.
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