BGEN Ltd
Project Director
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Role Overview
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career; with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where You’ll Be Working
BGEN is one of the UK's largest multidisciplinary design and build contractors with over 100 years of industry experience. We support clients in the Water, Power & Energy, Pharmaceutical, Nuclear and Food and Beverage industries to deliver next generation, value-added engineering solutions.
What You’ll Be Doing
The Project Director is accountable for the safe, successful, and profitable delivery of major projects from tender handover through execution, commissioning, and close-out. The role provides strategic leadership to multidisciplinary teams, ensuring projects are delivered in line with contractual, commercial, programme, quality, safety, and operational objectives while maintaining strong client relationships and governance standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Leading project teams, promoting a high-performance culture, and ensuring effective mobilisation, execution, and completion of projects.
- Owning overall health, safety, environmental, and wellbeing performance.
- Managing project profitability, cash flow, commercial strategy, contractual matters, and risk management.
- Overseeing programme controls, project reporting, engineering governance, quality assurance, and commissioning activities.
- Acting as the senior representative to clients and stakeholders.
- Leading governance reviews, managing strategic relationships, and protecting the organisation’s reputation.
- Being ultimately accountable for safety, programme delivery, financial performance, quality, client satisfaction, workforce leadership, governance compliance, and achieving the project's strategic objectives.
What You Will Bring
You are an accomplished Project Director with extensive experience delivering major E&I and Mechanical projects from concept through commissioning and handover. You combine strong technical credibility with commercial awareness, strategic leadership, and a relentless focus on safety, quality, programme, and client satisfaction. You are comfortable operating in complex, high-value environments and have the capability to lead large multidisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional project outcomes while protecting commercial performance and strengthening long-term client relationships.
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Experience and Skills Required
- Demonstrable experience leading the successful delivery of large, complex Electrical, Instrumentation and Mechanical (E&I/M) projects within highly regulated industries such as Nuclear, Power, Energy, Water, Pharmaceutical, or Industrial Manufacturing.
- Proven track record of providing strategic leadership across multidisciplinary project teams, including engineering, construction, quality, commissioning, commercial, planning, and project controls functions.
- Strong understanding of E&I and mechanical installation, testing, commissioning, construction methodologies, and engineering assurance processes, with the ability to challenge and support technical decisions at a senior level.
- Significant experience managing major project budgets, cash flow, profitability, risk, change control, and contractual obligations under NEC, FIDIC, or similar forms of contract.
- An exceptional safety leadership record with a visible commitment to Health, Safety, Environmental and Wellbeing performance, fostering a culture where safety is the first priority and everyone takes responsibility.
- Strong commercial and contractual acumen, with experience managing client relationships, claims, variations, dispute avoidance, and negotiation of complex project matters.
- Experience establishing robust project governance, reporting, programme controls, risk management, and performance management frameworks to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Proven ability to build and lead high-performing teams, developing future leaders and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently with clients, regulators, supply chain partners, senior executives, and project teams.
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Benefits
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:
- Company Pension Scheme
- Death in Service Benefit
- Opportunity to purchase additional holidays per year (up to 5 days for full time employees)
- My Rewards - offering discounts on high street and online shopping
- Employee assistance programme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Car Allowance/ Salary Sacrifice scheme
In addition, this role offers:
- Private health care for you
- Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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