The Crown Estate
Project Manager - Marine
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Advert Close date: 23rd July 2026
Purpose of Role
Project Manager specialising in Marine projects. In this role, you will lead the planning, execution, and delivery of projects that contribute to the growth and success of the Marine SBU strategy, leveraging your expertise to ensure effective project management and risk mitigation for optimal project outcomes.
As Project Manager, you will take on the responsibility of defining project scopes, managing schedules, monitoring project financials and implementing robust risk management strategies. Your role also involves implementing governance structures that provide control over projects, thereby effectively managing uncertainties and mitigating risks associated with project initiatives.
Main Accountabilities
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of projects across diverse sectors ensuring seamless execution with a focus on quality and efficiency
- Develop comprehensive scopes of work, project schedules, and budgets to guide successful project realisation
- Oversee project finances and adeptly manage project-related risks to ensure adherence to budgets and meticulous financial management and the successful mitigation of potential challenges
- Identify and escalate project delivery risks, with skilled management of project reporting to enable transparent communication and well-informed decision-making
- Efficient project schedule and resource management, defining and managing interfaces and interrelationships between programme activities, identifying and de-risking critical path activities, and ensuring that overall timescales are met
- Lead project governance structures to promote streamlined project delivery and adherence to best practices
- Uphold contract compliance, health and safety standards, and evidence-based assessments
- Drive sustainability practices into project execution, championing environmentally responsible operations
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Most Important Skills Based Requirements
- Substantial experience in project management, preferably within the renewable energy or marine sector
- Adept at developing and managing project scopes and schedules
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies, risk management, and reporting
- Proficiency in project financial management, budgeting, and financial risk assessment
- Strong analytical skills to identify and mitigate project risks effectively
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for collaboration and reporting with consideration for wider business implications
- Familiarity with contracting processes and adherence to contract compliance protocols
- Understanding of health and safety regulations and evidence assessment for health and safety
- Knowledge of sustainability principles and their integration into project management practices
Our Offering / Benefits
As well as a competitive salary, pension, and performance-related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market-leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover, and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work-life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self at work.
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Disability Disclaimer
We are a proud disability-confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
About Us
The Crown Estate is a unique business with a distinct heritage and a portfolio unlike any other.
It includes some of central London’s best places to work, shop, and spend time, retail and leisure destinations across the country, and a substantial rural portfolio. As manager of the seabed and half the foreshore around England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, we play a role in the UK’s world-leading offshore wind sector as well as marine aggregates, cables, and pipelines. We are also responsible for the Windsor Estate, including the world-renowned Windsor Great Park.
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