Site Facilities Project Manager

Job Description

Join our team at the Leonardo Helicopters site, as a Site Facilities Project Manager, and play a key role in shaping the infrastructure that supports our UK helicopter operations. You’ll take ownership of a diverse portfolio of infrastructure development projects, leading them from initial definition and business approval through design, procurement and construction, to commissioning and close-out.

Your Impact

Working across a complex operational environment, you’ll bring together internal teams, external partners, and specialist suppliers to deliver projects safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards. With responsibility for scope, schedule, budget, compliance, and delivery, you’ll ensure every project achieves its objectives while meeting all applicable legislation and company policies and procedures.

This is an opportunity to make a tangible impact, combining strong project management expertise with stakeholder leadership to deliver the facilities and infrastructure needed to support the future of our helicopter operations.

For the awareness of internal applicants, this position is a JFF L6.

What you will do as a Site Facilities Project Manager:

• Coordinate project resources in accordance with the LGS UK Facilities Projects governance processes (RIBA stages 0 to 7), including:
  • Appointment of consultant teams to undertake cost management, project management, and contract administration services as appropriate to a project.
  • Appointment of an appropriate design team where necessary to assist delivery of a project and ensure they produce a fit for purpose design solution with proportional documentation, including specifications and drawings.
  • Appointment of Principal Contractors and Principal Designers.
  • Communicate Technical Specifications, Scopes of Work, and designs with the internal stakeholders.
  • Generate, update, and communicate, detailed project plans that define the project tasks, critical path, dependencies, milestones, and overall project duration.
  • Ensure that all project tasks have a Risk Assessment and Method Statement approved by the LGS UK Head of Facilities Projects or authorised delegate prior to task launch, including subsequent issuing and tracking of relevant Permits of Work to Contractors.
  • Generate, update, and communicate the project Waste Management plan during the project lifecycle.
  • Create investment Business Cases in line with the current Company/Departmental Processes.
  • Raise Purchase Requisitions, receipt goods, and/or goods/service receipt invoices against original submitted quotations and act as necessary to ensure that those tasks and projects are discharged efficiently and to the agreed quality/scope within the agreed levels of expenditure.
  • Set up and facilitate regular project reviews with all key stakeholders.
  • Identify risks, including quality, cost, and schedule, and agree and implement mitigation actions to ensure project success.
  • Close all projects in accordance with the current Company/Departmental Processes.
  • On project handover/completion, issue and supply the OEM Manual to the IFM Partner and/or Production Maintenance Manager, arrange operator/process training, complete handover documentation, and formally close the funding stream with the financial team.
  • Perform CDM inspections, prepare written reports of findings and recommendations for corrective and preventative measures, and follow up on task completion.
  • Ensure that suitable and sufficient HSE arrangements are deployed and practiced on all projects in accordance with current UK Legislation, LDO UK Policies and Procedures, and the LHUK HSEMSM.
  • Collaborate with specialists such as Architects, Engineers, and local Government Officials for Permits and Licences.
  • Direct and oversee construction projects from conception to completion whilst monitoring compliance with safety and building regulations.
  • Ensure all legal requirements, building regulations, safety codes, safety inspections, and local and national regulations are met.
  • Manage health and safety issues, ensuring Contractors have a safe working environment within which to operate, aligned to the CDM process.
  • Ensure compliance with the LGS UK Facilities project governance processes.
• You will work with the Site Facilities Technical Specialist – Helicopters to develop the technical requirements for each project.
• You are responsible for ensuring that all LHUK Site Facilities activities under your management and control are undertaken in accordance with the requirements set out in the LHUK SHE Policy and the Health, Safety, and Environmental Management System Manual (HSEMSM).