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Lead Project Manager
As a Lead Project Manager, you’ll lead, support, and develop a team of Senior Project Managers, Project Managers, Assistant Project Managers, and Project Co-ordinators, ensuring the right skills, capacity, and support are in place to deliver against our commitments.
You’ll oversee the delivery of a portfolio of capital projects, ensuring they are properly planned, resourced, and governed. You’ll provide delivery oversight and challenge, manage risks and issues, and step in where projects need senior support, direction, or escalation.
A big part of this role will be driving consistency across how we deliver. You’ll embed project management standards, governance, controls, and assurance, while supporting continuous improvement across the project management community.
You’ll also work closely with internal teams, senior stakeholders, and delivery partners, ensuring priorities are clear, decisions are well informed, and projects continue to deliver safe, high-quality outcomes for our customers and communities.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this role, you’ll:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of project professionals, supporting performance, wellbeing, development, and engagement.
- Take accountability for the successful delivery of a portfolio of capital projects.
- Make sure projects are appropriately planned, resourced, governed, and controlled.
- Lead resource and workforce planning across your project portfolio.
- Oversee risk, issue, and dependency management, ensuring the right level of visibility, ownership, and escalation.
- Drive strong financial management, forecasting, reporting, and cost control.
- Build effective relationships with senior stakeholders, delivery teams, contractors, and supply chain partners.
- Represent the project management function in relevant forums, contributing to planning, resourcing, and continuous improvement.
- Champion health, safety, and wellbeing across project teams, ensuring CDM requirements and organizational standards are embedded.
- Support buildability, constructability, and risk reviews so that safety and delivery considerations are built in from the start.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, including the use of AI and better ways of working.
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What You’ll Bring to the Role
We’re looking for someone with strong leadership experience and a proven background in capital delivery, infrastructure, utilities, or another complex delivery environment.
You’ll have experience leading project management teams and overseeing multiple projects or a portfolio of work. You’ll be confident managing performance, developing capability, and ensuring teams have the right support and structure to deliver.
You’ll also bring strong commercial awareness, with experience of budget management, forecasting, contract management, and risk management. Experience working with NEC contracts or similar project delivery frameworks would be really valuable.
You’ll be a confident communicator who can build strong relationships across senior stakeholders, delivery teams, and external partners. You’ll be organized, proactive, and comfortable moving between strategic thinking and practical delivery.
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Most importantly, you’ll be someone who leads with care, curiosity, courage, and pride, creating a high-performing team environment where people feel supported, challenged, and clear on what good delivery looks like.
What You’ll Need
- Proven experience leading project management teams within a capital delivery, infrastructure, or complex delivery environment.
- Experience overseeing the delivery of multiple projects or a project portfolio.
- Strong resource planning, performance management, and people development experience.
- Experience managing risk, contracts, budgets, project controls, and governance.
- Knowledge of NEC contracts or similar project delivery frameworks.
- Strong understanding of CDM regulations, health and safety standards, project governance, and delivery best practice.
- Confident stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong IT skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Power BI.
- A project management qualification, or equivalent experience.
- GCSE or equivalent in English and Maths.
- Full UK driving license.
What’s Next
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You’ll just need an up-to-date CV and a few minutes to apply. We’ll let you know the outcome after the closing date, so keep an eye on your phone and emails.
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