Project Manager – UK

Job Details

Role: Project Manager

Location: Leeds – Hybrid working (work from several UK offices)

Salary: Up to £75k plus car/allowance and package

Employment: Permanent

Overview

We are looking for someone with experience working on MOD/Defence projects and a main contracting background to support the long‑term growth of a Production & Manufacturing and Defence sector, delivering large‑scale and complex construction projects across the UK. The role requires nationwide travel in line with project requirements.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide proactive leadership as the number one lead on the project, maintaining full control of all elements including design coordination, programme and planning, health & safety, operational delivery, and subcontractor management.
• Deliver projects within production and manufacturing environments, including delivery in safety‑critical, highly regulated and secure environments where safety, programme certainty and minimal operational disruption are critical.
• Work for a blue‑chip contractor and on projects involving heavy civils and infrastructure interfaces.
• Hold a relevant qualification in a construction‑related subject and demonstrate strong capability in managing cost and commercial performance on fast‑track and complex schemes, often with a high degree of change during the contract period.
• Collaborate closely with internal project teams while ensuring accuracy, quality and compliance with client and regulatory standards.
• Hold on‑site commercial responsibility for contract performance, maximising turnover and profitability while maintaining robust commercial processes and effective change management.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ hands‑on project delivery experience in a main contracting background.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Strong working knowledge of JCT contracts; NEC experience desirable but not essential.
• Experience delivering major projects within live operational environments.

Personal Attributes

• Confident and credible leader with a calm, methodical approach, capable of managing senior client stakeholders through clear and effective communication.
• Highly organised, excellent time and programme management skills, commercially astute with a proactive approach to risk and change management.
• Flexible and comfortable travelling nationwide and away from home as required; resilient and adaptable to pressured, live project environments.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Company car or allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension
• Health care
• More benefits

Equal Opportunity

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.

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