About The Role
The Project Manager delivers project objectives with respect to the six key areas of performance: Health & Safety, Quality, Cost, Environment, Delivery and People. The role involves delivering complex highways and technology schemes, with values ranging from £100k to £3m+, including safety schemes, environmental improvements, technology schemes, remedial works and junction improvement schemes.
Flexible working based out of Leatherhead, South Mimms or Dartford with travel to projects or other offices as required.
What you'll be doing
- Stakeholder Management – develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, SPM, Construction/Supervisor Teams and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ delivery objectives, report on and review project performance, and agree solutions to issues.
- Maintain compliance with the DBFO contract clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolve risks and issues promptly, produce accurate reports, and manage specified records including change management.
- Design, agree and implement project plans, ensuring all activities are appropriately organised and resourced to deliver project objectives.
- Lead and oversee programmes throughout their lifecycle – feasibility, design, construction and handover – informing investment proposals for our clients at each stage.
- Contribute to robust cost profiles identifying key risks and quantifying resource requirements.
- Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies and constraints, escalating where appropriate and developing, agreeing and implementing solutions.
- Commission and manage the performance of Framework Contractors and Designers, ensuring project objectives are understood, setting clear health and safety, time and cost expectations, and taking remedial action when necessary.
- Support delivery of business sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain.
- Work closely with Construction/Supervisor teams to manage permits, certificates and site reporting in line with project needs.
- Manage NEC Contracts Options as Project Manager.
The Following Qualities/Experience Are Essential
- Experience managing project teams and developing multiple projects concurrently.
- Strong collaborator with integrity and proven ability to influence stakeholder relationships for positive outcomes.
- Commercially focused, able to drive project performance and manage contracts to deliver outcomes.
- High resilience to handle conflicting priorities and setbacks constructively.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills to clarify project strategies and solutions.
- Experience managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans with contractors, designers and partners.
- Demonstrated mentoring or coaching to develop junior team members’ project management talent and competence.
- Good knowledge of performance evaluation techniques and key metrics.
- Record of a solution‑based approach to problem solving.
- Ability to inspire shared business vision among the team.
Preferable Qualifications
- Member of a professional management body (e.g., APM).
- Formal qualification (BSc/MSc) in management, construction, or equivalent experience.
- APM PFQ/PMQ/PPQ.
- CSCS and SMSTS or equivalent.
- Current driving licence.
Benefits
- Smart working – flexibility, staggered start/finish times and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
- Family‑friendly policies: 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave; four weeks full pay for paternity/partner’s leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.
EEO and Diversity
We are committed to equality, diversity, inclusion and to working with people with disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers to employment. We actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
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