Cumming Group UK & Europe
Senior Project Manager
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Senior Project Manager
About Cumming Group
Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.
About the Role
We are seeking Senior Project Managers who have experience in working on, for or managing infrastructure projects which enable future residential or mixed-use projects. Our project pipeline in this area continues to grow and we are looking for ambitious and enquiring minds to join us and be part of our exciting journey of growth and delivery excellence.
As well as those who have direct evidence of skills and involvement on these types of projects as a project manager, we would be interested in talking to those from an architectural or engineering background with infrastructure experience and are seeking a new challenge to transition to a project manager role working on schemes that may also involve the project management of the later build phases (going vertical) through to completion and handover.
This role, which will involve working as part of a larger team with autonomy reflecting the role, will focus on enabling large scheme masterplans to release the build phases across the plots. This would generally include site-wide utilities (power, water, heat, hot water, comms, drainage and more) alongside the road and path networks aligned to the wider public realm landscaping and placemaking through the design, procurement, construction, and handover phases.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- To provide clear and reasoned client advice across the full project lifecycle from feasibility to handover
- Provide strategic and technical advice on infrastructure delivery, phasing, and risk
- Support the development of business cases, feasibility studies, and delivery strategies
- Develop and maintain strong lasting client relationships
- Develop and manage project execution plans, programmes, and reporting
- Coordinate multiple workstreams including utilities, physical infrastructure, hard and soft landscaping and all enabling works
- Monitor progress against key milestones and manage recovery actions where required
- Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary design teams (architects, civil and structural, MEP and other specialists)
- Check that infrastructure designs meet the client brief in terms of functionality, regulatory, sustainability and operational needs
- Lead design reviews, value engineering, and buildability assessments
- Manage and enable interfaces between the infrastructure and vertical build phases
- Support procurement strategies for consultants, contractors, and specialists
- Advise on and administer contracts (typically NEC or JCT)
- Manage change control, variations, and commercial impacts
- Monitor cost plans, forecasts, and financial reporting
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement with statutory authorities, utility providers and third parties
- Chair design team meetings, client reviews, and progress workshops
- Act as a key escalation point for project issues, risks, and decisions
- Identify, remove, mitigate or manage infrastructure and delivery risks
- Ensure compliance with client and any other governance requirements
- Implement quality assurance processes across design and construction stages
- Support gateway reviews, audits and assurance activities
- Monitor contractor performance on site
- Support resolution of design, coordination, and interface issues
- Ensure information flow supports construction and commissioning activities
- Coordinate commissioning, testing, and completion of infrastructure systems as appropriate
- Ensure delivery of O&M manuals, asset data, as-built information, and certifications
- Support transition to the client operational teams
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Knowledge & Skills Required
- Evidential experience delivering infrastructure projects
- Experience managing multi-disciplinary design teams
- Strong client-facing and communication skills
- Ability to manage complex interfaces and competing stakeholder requirements
- An enquiring and ambitious mind to learn on complex projects and develop problem solving skills
- An ability to get on with all types of individuals and seek to modify approaches as a situation may demand
- Respond confidently to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
- Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
- Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
- Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
- Demonstrate a high degree of integrity and ethical standards.
- Provide support to junior team members.
- Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
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Preferred Education and Experience
- Degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Building Services, or similar
- Professional or project management qualification
- Chartered or working toward chartership
- Knowledge of NEC and JCT contracts
- Experience in delivering infrastructure projects for the later development of residential led schemes, mixed-use schemes, offices and more
- Client-focused and commercially aware
- Strong coordination and leadership skills
- Analytical, organised, and detail-driven
- Comfortable operating across design and construction phases
Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.
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