HDR
Project Manager Engineering Assistant
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Senior Project Manager Engineering Assistant – Building Engineering Services Group
HDR fosters a culture where every employee-owner is valued, respected, and empowered to share their authentic selves and innovative ideas. Guided by the question "What is our impact on the world?", we create a truly inclusive environment across our company and community.
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core mission
Each role at HDR drives meaningful impact—both locally and globally. Here, you’ll contribute to shaping the built environment that powers progress and imagination.
Building engineering isn’t just about systems—it’s about enabling innovation. As part of HDR’s Building Engineering Services Group, you’ll design critical infrastructure for the modern era: high-performance data centres, groundbreaking AI hubs, and dynamic commercial spaces—straightening lines of innovation, sustainability, and human-centred design.
Drawing from mechanical, electrical, structural, and civil expertise, our teams tackle complex challenges with precision, creative solutions, and seamless collaboration. Whether you’re refining energy efficiency, embedding resilience, or engineering the foundations of next-gen facilities, your work shapes how we live, work, and connect.
This isn’t just a career—it’s an opportunity to lead innovation, engineer change, and leave a lasting legacy.
About the role
HDR seeks a proactive, detail-oriented Project Manager Engineering Assistant to support every stage of high-impact engineering projects across our portfolio. As the linchpin of delivery, you’ll ensure projects stay on track, stakeholders are informed, and milestones are met.
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You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams (from conception through close-out), acting as both coordinator and enabler, while reporting to a Project Manager.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate broadly: Act as a gluing force across single- and multispecialty teams throughout the project lifecycle—intrinsic from initiation through close-out—under the guidance of a Project Manager.
- Deliver key outcomes: Take ownership of small projects or specific facets of larger initiatives, ensuring timely, budget-conscious completion alongside operational goals.
- Execute with precision: Organise workloads across active projects, adhering strictly to schedules—whether revamping scheduling systems or directing detailed project timelines.
- Partner across functions: Align with Project Management, Accounting, Operations, and senior leadership teams during interval progress reviews.
- Leverage technical versatility: Apply foundational engineering principles as needed to assist critical design deliverables.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or equivalent field).
- Experience: Minimum 6 years of relevant professional experience, including:
- Direct, hands-on technical experience in Data Centre projects.
- Technical proficiency: Intermediate or advanced use of:
- MS Office
- Excel for project tracking and analysis.
- Project Management software (beyond Excel).
What We Believe
HDR uncorks collective potential. By valuing diverse life experiences and perspectives, we create an atmosphere where collaboration radically pushes innovation. Our shared ownership cultivates rigorous trust and purposeful engagement, placing our teams differently aligned with client communities.
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Our Commitment
As employee-owners, we uphold inclusivity as a responsibility. Neither directive nor entitlement, true belonging is our steady current—a culture where every voice finds space, every creative streak finds support.
To nurture safety, equity, and celebration of difference, HDR supports eight formal Employee Network Groups (ENGs):
- Asian Pacific
- Black ENRG
- Hispanic/Latin(o/a) ENRG
- LGBTQ+ ENRG
- People with Disabilities ENRG
- Veteran ENRG
- Women’s
- Young Professionals
Each network, threaded with owner sponsorship, nurtures belonging. Everyone contributes, period.
Additional Details
Location: London (Remote options may be available—functionally contingent and per team discretion; Manchester listed as alternate.)
Sector: Construction, Project Controls & Design/Build
Schedule: Full-time
Class: Program Management
Posting Date: February 12, 2026
"Justice and the pursuit offreedom are not merely tangential/frequent,"*—they define HDR.
HDR is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer: We consider all qualified candidates for employment at HDR, regardless of past criminal history, arrest, or conviction record.
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