Description
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead some of Heathrow’s most complex and high‑value projects. You will work closely with stakeholders to shape requirements, develop scope and design, and produce robust business cases. You will also oversee the safe and efficient delivery of construction activity across our Terminals and Airfield, working in partnership with contractors in a live operational environment.
The role will involve working in partnership with senior leaders across the organisation, helping to shape strategies and delivery plans that enable the successful implementation of solutions. You will have responsibility for a multi‑disciplinary project team, providing coaching, development, and mentorship.
Responsibilities
- Delivering complex infrastructure projects end‑to‑end, from requirements through to commissioning and handover, meeting agreed cost, schedule, scope, and quality targets.
- Progressing projects through governance gateways in line with the Heathrow Gateway Lifecycle, ensuring robust documentation.
- Developing and manage end‑to‑end project plans, setting clear objectives, deliverables, and value‑for‑money outcomes, and coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver an integrated solution.
- Collaborating with peers to improve delivery practices, share learning, and support junior development, while building strong stakeholder relationships to understand needs, secure decisions, and gain approvals.
- Overseeing project controls and commercial performance, including cost, schedule, risk, change management, reporting, procurement activities and contractor performance.
- Manage supply chain contracts and performance, including procurement activities, commercial administration, contractor oversight and assurance that suppliers deliver to the required standards.
- Leading and taking accountability for team health, safety, and wellbeing, and ensuring Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) duties are met across all activities.
Qualifications
- Experience managing infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle, including business case development, design, contract management, team leadership, financial control, and health, safety, quality, and environmental management.
- Proven experience in autonomously leading, managing and developing diverse teams on large Infrastructure projects or programmes
- Proven experience in all aspects of project controls, providing confidence in forecasting, earned value performance, programme reliability, and projected outturn costs.
- Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work effectively across multicultural and multidisciplinary teams.
- Project planning and developing schedules from first principles; reviewing and interrogating contractor schedules and familiarity with P6.
- Experience with contracts (ideally NEC) and supply chain performance management, supported by strong commercial acumen and experience within a contractual environment
- Professional affiliation, qualification or near qualified status with the APM or similar professional institution.
Ideally you will have
- Degree qualification in an appropriate discipline, or equivalent academic achievement.
- Working towards APM Chartered Project Professional (CPP), Achieved APM PMQ or equivalent.
- Achieved NEC accreditation.
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