Project Manager / Senior Project Manager

Job Description

Overview

You might know us for the great work we do across our wide variety of projects. We're proud to say it's thanks to our people's diversity of thought, expertise and knowledge. When you join us, you'll be part of a genuinely collaborative environment where every voice is valued and treated equally.

AtkinsRéalis UK Infrastructure Project Delivery Practice (PDP) is the centre of excellence for the delivery of infrastructure projects and the home unit for our project management professionals. The team is responsible for the successful delivery of design and consultancy services across our key markets, including Water Infrastructure, Defence Infrastructure, Buildings and Places, Energy, and Aviation.

With recent project wins in the East Midlands and a growing portfolio of work with our Water and Defence clients, we have exciting opportunities for experienced Project Managers to join our Midlands team (based in Birmingham, Derby and Peterborough). As a Project Manager, you will lead the planning, coordination and delivery of complex multi-disciplinary projects, taking accountability for performance across scope, programme, cost, risk and quality. You will work closely with clients, stakeholders and technical teams to ensure successful project outcomes, driving delivery from concept and design development through to construction and handover. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to some of the UK's largest and most challenging infrastructure projects, supporting sustainable growth and delivering lasting value for our clients and communities.

Your role

• Lead and manage large and/or complex multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring successful delivery in line with agreed scope, programme, budget, quality, and client expectations.
• Establish clear project objectives, delivery strategies, and governance arrangements, ensuring alignment with business and client requirements.
• Provide project leadership and oversight to support successful project outcomes, proactively monitoring risks, issues, opportunities, and dependencies, and working closely with clients and project teams to implement appropriate mitigation measures.
• Manage contractual and commercial aspects of projects, safeguarding AtkinsRéalis' interests while ensuring positive outcomes for clients and stakeholders.
• Contribute to a positive project culture by working collaboratively, sharing best practice and supporting less experienced colleagues.
• Contribute to the growth and capability of the wider project management team by sharing best practice and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with clients, stakeholders, subcontractors, partners, and internal disciplines to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Develop, manage, and monitor project delivery programmes and implementation plans, ensuring effective resource planning and performance management.
• Monitor project financial performance, including revenue, costs, margins, risk allowances, and earned value metrics, taking corrective action where required.
• Support the management of contractual and commercial matters, including change control, project reporting, forecasting and cost management.\Lead project close-out activities, ensuring contractual obligations are fulfilled, project documentation is archived, lessons learned are captured, and client feedback is obtained.
• Support business development activities, including client engagement, work winning, bid support, and the identification of new opportunities within strategic markets.

About you

• Experience managing projects or significant project workstreams within infrastructure, engineering, construction, consultancy or a related environment.
• Relevant degree, professional qualification, or equivalent experience in project management, engineering, science, construction or a related discipline.
• Relevant Professional Qualification, such as Chartered Project Professional (ChPP), Chartered Engineer (CEng), Chartered Scientist (CSci), or equivalent professional qualification, with proven experience delivering major infrastructure projects.
• Willing and flexible to travel to our projects.
• Demonstrable experience leading the delivery of complex projects, programmes or commissions across the project lifecycle, which may include design, construction, consultancy, client-side, contractor, traditional/design and build environments.
• Strong understanding and practical application of contract forms, particularly NEC3 and NEC4.
• Experience managing projects against time, cost, quality and safety requirements, with the ability to monitor performance, manage change and take corrective action where required.
• Effective leadership and team management skills, with the ability to set clear direction, create accountability, support development, and motivate multidisciplinary teams to deliver successful project outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder and client relationship management skills, with the ability to build trust and influence at all levels.
• Commercially aware, with practical experience managing project finances, forecasting, change control, risk and contractual requirements to support successful delivery and protect project performance.
• Actively supports the development of less experienced project professionals through day-to-day coaching, sharing best practice, providing constructive feedback, and helping to build a collaborative, inclusive and high performing project environment.
• Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to engage clients, stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams, facilitate decisions, manage expectations, resolve issues and maintain alignment throughout project delivery.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

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About AtkinsRéalis

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

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Additional information

Security clearance

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.